The Northlands Rescue Mission in Grand Forks received national cable television time on Thursday night.
On CNN's "Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull" show, host Brown specifically mentioned Northlands as part of her editorial on why presidential candidates Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., should stop negative campaign ads and put money spent for those to a better use.
Brown also highlighted a homeless shelter in Provo, Utah, in her editorial.
Northlands has seen a recent spike in the number of homeless using the shelter, Director Dave Sena told the Herald on Tuesday, noting that 104 people stayed at the shelter on Monday. Capacity for the shelter is 100. Sena also said the Mission has been serving as many as 120 people at lunch or dinner, a record. Many of the people don't stay at the shelters but come for the free food.
The Mission will hold its annual banquet at 5 p.m. Thursday in the Alerus Center with singer/guitarist Buddy Greene.
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To see Brown's editorial, visit www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/16/campbell.brown.negative.ads/index.html .
