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Seven days a week, Mark Lytal starts his day before dawn cleaning shower stalls at the Sacramento Pipeworks property in the River District north of downtown.
It’s where he runs a free mobile shower program called Showers by Touchstone for Sacramento’s unhoused community.
The Air Force vet is there until well after dark making sure his unhoused neighbors have what they need, whether that’s a shower, a meal, a sleeping bag or all three.
The service, which Lytal started in 2019, offers people something more than just the chance to get clean. It offers hope and dignity.
“People ask me all the time, ‘Why do you do it?’” Lytal said on a recent morning as guests lined up for showers. “Because I can. And because I love the people that I work with. That I get to work with.”