LEWISTON — Haibado Daher was a teacher back home in Djibouti. Here, she was a single mom with three kids and no job. City staff pointed her toward the Trinity Jubilee Center last fall to fulfill a volunteering requirement tied to General Assistance. While she waited for a work permit, Daher, 38, helped people coming […]
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Helping Lewiston’s Jubilee Center with ‘a servant’s heart’
LEWISTON — When Erin Reed hired a burly ex-Marine from southern New Jersey to guide volunteers at Lewiston’s Trinity Jubilee Center, she worried how he’d be accepted by people seeking out a meal, help with a job application or just a place to be warm. So many of the center’s clients have been bitten by […]
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Wettlaufer leaving downtown Lewiston community center
LEWISTON — After nine years as the head of the Trinity Jubilee Center — Lewiston’s loose, come-as-you-are community center and soup kitchen — Kim Wettlaufer made few rules. “It’s what makes the place what it is. Rules wouldn’t work,” Wettlaufer said, staring out at the folks who lingered in the dining area. Around the corner, […]
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‘We have lost our Jerry’: Der Boghosian, 91, died Friday
LEWISTON — Saturday was a sad day for Erin Reed at the Trinity Jubilee Center — and for everyone who knew Jerry Der Boghosian. Der Boghosian, 91, passed away Friday afternoon on his way to an appointment at the Togus Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Augusta, Reed said Saturday. “We have lost our Jerry,” Reed, […]