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Stevinson Automotive + the Denver Rescue Mission

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It was a bitter cold Wednesday morning in Lakewood, Colorado when Stevinson Automotive hosted two individuals from the Denver Rescue Missio n, Blake Nauman and Jordan Smith. They have both dedicated their careers to serving people who are experiencing homelessness, and they visited Kent Stevinson and the Stevinson corporate office to conduct an interview for their newsletter featuring Kent Stevinson, a donor to the Denver Rescue Mission. It may seem an odd coupling; a family-owned automotive corporation featured in the newsletter of the Denver Rescue Mission, but the Stevinson family has actually been involved with the organization for decades, since around 1970. Before diving into the interview questions, we reflected on how awful the past weekend must have been for those without a home, considering we experienced about five inches of snow across Denver. Denver has experienced an almost four percent rise in homelessness since the last count in 2016, according to a new repo