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Joanne Keefe and a handful of others ducked out of Wednesday's cold into St. John's Episcopal Church for the fourth day the Grace Center has been open since starting up last month.
The center, she said, offers a place for the city's homeless and others who need a place to stay warm during the day. Aside from Sawyer Free Library and the Rose Baker Senior Center, there aren't other places for them.
Grace Center opened Dec. 22. Since then, said the Rev. Tom Bentley, pastor at Trinity Congregational Church next door, the program has served about 12 to 15 people each day. It's open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday each week; it's a traveling day center at the moment, and bounces each day between Trinity, St. John's and the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church on Middle Street.
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http://www.gloucestertimes.com/local/x1666061104/Multi-church-shelter-finds-niche
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