Dream Center looking for site to house food distribution hub From left, Dream Center Board of Directors President Nathan Miller and Love, Live, Christ Co-Director Jason Willis construct a handcrafted bed for a child in a Columbus neighborhood earlier this year. They and other volunteers at the Dream Center Golden Triangle’s Bedz4Kidz program have constructed more than 200 beds for needy children around the Golden Triangle, Dream Center director John Almond told the Columbus City Council Tuesday. Courtesy photo
John Almond
Two years ago, when John Almond was first starting the nonprofit Dream Center Golden Triangle to meet the needs of Columbus’ most impoverished people, he found a young mother and her two children who were sleeping on the linoleum floor of their home.
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Columbus Mayor Robert Smith and Police Chief Fred Shelton talk about proposed solutions to violent crime, while police and city council members stand behind them at a press conference outside City Hall Thursday. The city will host a town hall meeting to address crime on Monday, and Smith and Shelton announced the city will increase police patrols at night, implement driver’s licenses and safety checkpoints and install surveillance cameras throughout the city to help curb crime. Isabelle Altman/Dispatch Staff
City officials have invited the public to a town hall meeting at 6 p.m. Monday in Trotter Convention Center to hear concerns and propose solutions to the recent increase in gun violence in Columbus and the surrounding areas.
Ward 4 primary challenge could be filed in circuit court
Patricia Ann Douglas
Ward 4 council candidate Patricia Ann Douglas said she will be speaking with her attorney about the next steps in her challenge to the April 6 Democratic primary election after the Columbus Municipal Executive Committee declined to act on the challenge during its Tuesday meeting.
In a letter hand-delivered to executive committee chairman Melodie Cunningham on Monday, Jackson attorney Spencer Ritchie, who is representing the Douglas campaign, released a list of eight voters who voted in the primary who the Douglas campaign says are not residents of Ward 4. Of the eight voters alleged to live outside the ward but used Ward 4 addresses to vote in the primary three listed their address at the home of Marty Turner, who was declared the winner of the primary.
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