Outreach to poor shut down by sewage leak
Tests should come back Monday, that will tell whether Franciscan Northside Ministries can go back into the building that normally houses outreach to the area's poor. Assumption Church's Parish Center has been shut down since the record rainfall two weekends ago forced a sewer backup that left two inches of toxics on the ground floor of the building. A food pantry and medical clinics, housed on that floor, had to be shut down. They've improvised a giveaway of daily bread and sandwiches from the porch of the building next door, but medical records are in the contaminated offices--making it especially difficult to refill prescriptions. Wallboard in the building soaked up the sewage, so there are worries about mold as well as toxics. In places the wall has already been cut away to the brick and stud foundations.
