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When is an air mattress more than just a piece of camping equipment? Somewhere in your garage or basement is an unused air mattress. Maybe you used it a few times on camping trips with your family. Or it may have been used by a child who is grown and long gone from the home. For some Muscatine residents, that air mattress could be what is needed to help keep them from sleeping on a floor. It often happens that clients in the MCSA Homeless Prevention Program reach the point wh

Good smells are wafting through the building as tonight's dinner for MCSA residents heats up. In a typical month, MCSA staff members serve about 400 meals -- all of which have been donated. Today, any of the 45 residents in MCSA's Overnight/Emergency Shelter, Family and Transitional Shelter or Men's Dorm who are in the building at 5 p.m. can eat barbecue sandwiches and fried potatoes for dinner if they want them. The potatoes were prepared by the folks at Guy and a Grill and