Word: buttitta
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Additions: Anne Schwieger, G, 5-0, Fr.; Lindsey Dean, G, 5-8, Fr.; Casey Manning, F, 5-10, Fr.; Jackie Buttitta, F, 6-0, Fr.; Sarah...
...neighborhood recreational center, Esther Buttitta, 74, a retired schoolteacher, is drawing on years of carefully honed teaching skills to engage a handful of local kids whose parents are out running errands. "Finger painting with chocolate pudding is pretty easy if you just dive right in, see?" she says chirpily, before unloading a Jell-O container onto the white paper in front of her and digging in. As her creation takes shape, Andrew Boatright, 3, is quiet, wide-eyed, awed. Soon his primitive portraits cover the table, and many dollops of brown glop adorn his newly animated face...
...Buttitta is careful not to press too hard, as Andrew is just beginning to come out of his shell. Prior to being taken in by his adoptive family two years ago, he and his older brother Anthony had been shuffled through five foster homes. Before she moved into the neighborhood, Buttitta had had hip, heart and back surgery--all within a 12-month period--and suspected her days of enriching young minds were over. Now the two provide sustenance for each other in Hope Meadows, a community that seems to have been carved out of an earlier time...