| It’s become an annual “rite of Spring” for us at St. Leonard’s Ministries. College students who are looking for something more than Florida beaches, come to SLM to do something positive with their time away from classes. This year, two groups of ”students came and spent a week at SLM; they were from Xavier University in Cincinnati and the University of Wisconsin in River Falls, WI. Students were assigned several tasks – mostly all having to do with basic maintenance work. The Dining Room at Grace House received a new coat of paint; and several resident common rooms underwent heavy duty Spring cleaning. Several students tutored program participants at the Barlow Center who had special needs that the students were able to address. As students left they reflected that some of the men and women they met had accomplished some impressive goals in their lives in spite of time spent in prison and that the criminal justice system in this Country is in need of a major overhaul. Let’s hope that the future lives of these students will provide opportunities to accomplish that overhaul. |
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