Tuesday, February 08, 2005

GreenvilleOnline.com - Joan Kroc's gift could reach city

GreenvilleOnline.com - Joan Kroc's gift could reach city: "Joan Kroc's gift could reach city
Posted Monday, February 7, 2005 - 8:06 pm
It had been 12.5 acres of empty fields, overgrown with weeds and pocked with trash. There were two abandoned stores with crumbling parking lots. The sides of the buildings were scrawled with graffiti. Hardluck people looking to hire out as laborers collected in the parking lots each morning.
The neighborhoods all around had seen better days, but not in a good long while.
This is where the model was built: the Salvation Army's Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center, which opened June 2002 in east San Diego. "

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