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the program to see how we can improve it, Jacabella said. “Most of the time it’s not under such unfortunate circumstances.The shelter is supervised 24 hours a day, Jacabella said.There is a sign-in sheet for residents as they enter in the evening and the supervisor is normally made aware of any visitors, he said.The doors are locked in the evening except for the main entrance near where the supervisor stays in the main office, he said.“We’ve been real pleased with the way things have been going. . .people of all different ages, cultures, races and religions all living together, working together, helping one another,” he said.There are about 50 residents1984, under the sponsorship of the Chester Cluster of United Methodist Churches and is funded by various denominations of area churches, the state, corporations and foundations.In 1985, the shelter provided 25,157 nights of shelter to individuals, Jacabella said. Children under 18 comprised about 39 percent of the residents; women, 22 percent; and men, 38 percent, he said.The length of stay depends on how long it takes someone or a family “to find a place of their own,” he said. Stays range from three weeks to nine months.“Larger families have a hardertime finding nn apartment an^tend to stay longer,” Jacabella said.A r \VASunday Times staff photo by PAULA E. DOYLEMURDER Officials at flit Wesley House, at Ttti and Madison in Chester, arehoping the fatal stabbing at the shelter will net overshadow the success the facility has achieved in helping theBy ROSE QUINNSunday Times CorrespondentCHESTER — While some of the homeless residents at the Wesley House are scared and “ready to move out right now,”others said the shelter is their home “and just as safe” as any other location.“This horrible tragedy could have happened anywhere,” resident Darlene Bachman, 43,DR. MSA LTZDentistDental Core for The Entire FamilyDAILY 8-7 • SATURDAY 8-5616 AVE. OF STATESCHESTER, PA.said Friday as she sat cross-legged on her bed in the women’s quarters of the shelter, locateddownstairs from the church where her friend Peter Naylor was murdered Thursday night.“I know a lot of other people are scared now, Bachman said, Tmupset too. But Tm upset because of I’ve known Pete since he was a young boy, not because (the stabbing) happened here.” Describing the victim as “the most sensitive man” she has ever met, Bachman said Naylor “was the male version of his mother,”NEPHROLOGY MEDICAL ASSOCIATES, LTD.Edmund T. Del Guercio, M.D. Noreen M. March, M.D.Allen E. Meyer, M.D.Joseph W. Smiley, M.D.;are pleased to announce the relcoation of their offices for the practice of internal medicine and nepmrolgy to:MERCY FITZGERALD MEDICAL OFFICE BUILDING1501 Lansdowne Avenue, Suite 201Darby, PA. 19023Office Hours By Appointment Telephone (215) 534-6230Hilda Naylor, founder of Wesley House.Resident Barbara E. Smith, 48,“I really liked Pete,” said Smith, who has been living at the house for the past seven months. This could have happened anywhere, and now I am afraid that all the publicity will dose (the shelter) down.”For Ruthanne Walker, 56, who has been at the shelter about a month longer than South, theof “watching a man bleed td death” was just too much.“I am getting out of this place. I don’t care where I go,” saidWalker, This is the first time I ever saw anything like that and believe me it will be the last, she added.Another woman who has been living at the shelter with her 10-month-old son for the past two months said she “has already been looking” for a new place to live.They should have more strict polides around here,” she said, charging, They take anybody in here.”
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Upper Darby Sunday Times
Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, US
Sun, Jul 20, 1986
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