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CHECK OUT THE LATEST ARTICLE THE BRADENTON HERALD WROTE ON LIGHT UNDER THE BRIDGE 9/18/2011 "LIGHT UNDER THE BRIDGE BRINGS HOPE TO THE DESPERATE"

LIGHT UNDER THE BRIDGE BRINGS HOPE TO THE DESPERATE

By JAMES A. JONES JR. - jajones1@bradenton.com

BRADENTON -- By any measure, the safety net for the homeless, the hungry, the destitute and the hopeless is strained to the breaking point in Manatee County. Too many times, it may even be missing altogether because the need is so overwhelming.

Thursday, three young women sat on a sofa at Lighthouse Treasures Store, bright-eyed, alert, articulate and smiling.

They were charming and brave, too.

    You wouldn’t know it, but each of them is recovering from alcohol or drug abuse.

    Not so long ago, they were on the verge of plunging right past society’s safety net and into an abyss from which they might never recover.

    And yet, looking at them on that sofa, they seemed so normal, just like anyone’s favorite daughter.

    Maybe that’s just the point.

    It can happen to anyone.

    read more: http://www.bradenton.com/2011/09/17/3502358.html#ixzz1YD8gtE69

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