For more than 40 years, Crenshaw Christian Center (CCC) and its generous members and guests have donated an estimated $6 million worth of food, clothing, toys, personal care items, money, gift cards, home goods, and more to benefit the local community.
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Those who really know the Rev. Andy Bales, chief executive of the Union Rescue Mission on skid row, have come to accept that there are certain things you can’t tell him.
He doesn’t like to take it easy, despite chronic health problems. And he doesn’t like the concept of medical leave.
“He’s just go, go, go, go, go, all the time,” says Kitty Davis-Walker, one of the mission’s administrators.
But Bales’ colleagues were hoping that now he’d finally heed their warnings. He was having his left leg amputated at mid-shin, several years after an identical amputation of his right leg.