Warming center opens overnight

COEUR d'ALENE - Fresh Start Emergency Warming Center was open overnight Monday for the first time this year. Temperatures were expected to drop into the teens.

Fresh Start, at 16th and Sherman, offers hot food and coffee, showers, laundry, rest rooms, telephone and Internet access, "and especially a warm and safe environment for the homeless to escape the bitter cold overnight temperatures," according to a press release.

The center opened at 7 p.m. Monday and will close at noon today.