Article from the Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
Church partnership provides gift of computers By Elisabeth Enloe -The News staff writer Kendal Morris has three older brothers at home and was tired of fighting for her share of time on the family computer. Enough was enough and it was time she had a computer of her own. So when the 11-year-old Stephen F. Austin Middle School student first heard about the St. Paul United Methodist Church Computer Program, an opportunity for her to earn a computer through community service and a commitment to her education, she couldn't wait to get home and tell her mother about it. When she first came home and told me about it I thought she was mistaken, Sherri Morris, a 46-year-old elementary school teacher, said. But she was really persistent and it was something she has wanted for a really long time. Her persistence included digging through the trash after her application materials were thrown out alongside Hurricane Rita debris. The Morris' were among more than 30 families gathered at St. Paul United Methodist Church on Texas Avenue Saturday to take a computer orientation class and then pick up a computer of their own to take home. (snip) Full article at http://www.panews.com/articles/2006/01/22/news/01news.prt -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
