'Comfort Station' for Farm Workers to Open

Fourth District Riverside County Supervisor John J. Benoit will be joined Sunday by representatives from the nonprofit Galilee Center to celebrate the opening of a permanent shower, restroom and laundry facility for migrant farm workers.

The Mecca Comfort Station was fashioned from a vacant warehouse at the Galilee Center building and is a joint effort of Galilee and the county.

“The Mecca Comfort Station will help farm workers and the community have access to showers and laundry, necessities that are often taken for granted,” Benoit said.

The dedication ceremony is scheduled for 4 p.m. and will feature a blessing of the facility by Bishop Gerald R. Barnes of the Diocese of San Bernardino.

The Galilee Center provides food, clothing and other basic needs to low- income families in the eastern Coachella Valley.

--City News Service, photo via Shutterstock