The holidays will not be the same for staff at COMEA, the Cheyenne nonprofit that specializes in serving the city’s homeless population.

Executive Director Robin Bocanegra said COMEA has been providing families staying at the four-family shelter, known as the Journey Center, with a special holiday experience that includes gifts for the kids since it opened in December 2019.

“That was our favorite time for families. We’d go over and make sure we had two or three Christmas trees through the building,” she said. “We would ask the families to make wish lists because we had people calling and saying, ‘Hey we want to adopt a family for Christmas.’”

This year, a series of unfortunate events at the facility, located at at 1421 Lincoln Way, has resulted in COMEA closing down the Journey Center.

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