I don't mind relating to what degree other halfway houses help stabilize their immediate vicinities. Now I'm living a couple of blocks from Teen Challenge, a 59-bed facility for faith-based recovery clients who live in a structured environment for up to one year. Teen Challenge came over to visit all 59 clients strong plus three or four staff last Saturday afternoon and had hot dogs and chili with us in the Horn Terrace congregate dining room. We were going to do this as a picnic outside, but the weather was too unsettled. A good time was had by all, as expected.
We will have more contact with these fine fellows - they sing well together and we have a number of former choristers in our resident population, myself included, as it happens. Teen Challenge also plans to help us put the gardens to bed for the winter. Previously I lived in the immediate vicinity of several group homes in the heart of Whittier and they were without exception good neighbors and generally agreed by other renters and owners in the 2400 and 2500 blocks of Pillsbury Ave. S. to be reputable and desirable uses for the buildings they occupy. Fred Markus, Horn Terrace, Ward Ten _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
