More than 20 hot and hungry children filed into the J.W. “Blind” Boone Community Center, jam-packed with child-sized tables and chairs. Artwork plastered the walls. They ate pizza. They talked about school and television and what the moon was made of, all the while eyeing the framed photos stacked neatly on a center table.
New look at First Ward
Thursday, May 24, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 9:34 p.m. CDT, Sunday, July 20, 2008
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