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...Side. Challenged by a student to practice the good works he preached, Ritter responded with a colorful act of muscular Christianity: he paid $50 to a couple of toughs to scare drug dealers into vacating their apartments. He used the space to house homeless children. Later he opened a shelter for runaways in a three-room hovel on East Seventh Street and solicited money to help the hundreds of teenagers who flocked to the shelter: drug addicts, prostitutes or simply abandoned, lonely adolescents with no place...
Although the institution will survive, Covenant House will miss Ritter's flair and spirit. Shane Sanders, 20, sold drugs and lived on a rooftop in Harlem until checking into a Covenant House shelter three weeks ago. Says he: "I finally came here because I couldn't stand living on the streets all the time. I find it hard to believe all these things against a man who built Covenant House for 22 years. It hurts a lot of us. Father Bruce is like our father...
...local charities benefited by the weekend's events: Seton Manor, a shelter for homeless people with AIDS, and the Dimmock Community Health Center, which specializes in AIDS education for women, children and minorities said Lincoln...
...Miami television station went further, reporting that Zell and Lehtinen owned a house together but kept it in her name to shelter it from the divorce settlement. Zell signed the house over to him after the divorce was final. Lehtinen later married a fellow state legislator (now a Republican Congresswoman), Ileana Ros. However, the Justice Department has declared that there are "no problems" in the way of Lehtinen's confirmation...
...Granary Trust still faces financial difficulties, and is short on working volunteers. Les has a long history of providing shelter for the lost, and hopes to make Pitkierie a fully operating center for the jobless and homeless youth of Fife; he is able to offer free room in the bunk house in return for help with the project. For more information on the Trust, contact the photocopied address above, or call John Thompson...