Despite recent changes to programs downtown, one organization uses feeding of the area’s homeless as part of the road to recovery.
Drug and alcohol rehabilitation center Wings of Life feeds the homeless once a week with meals prepared by program residents, minister-in-training Cameron Shaw said during a tour of the facility at 800 St. Louis St.
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