Ken Woodmansee, an unhoused man in Alameda County, was one of the first to park his van as part of First Presbyterian Church of Hayward’s park-out program.

He had Thanksgiving dinner with Pastor Jake Medcalf and his family, who found Woodmansee to be “a beautiful, kind and fun soul.”

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.