Back of photo: NEWS 9/29/88 (Photo by Russ Carmack) Trash, broken bottles, litter, etc. is everywhere in McKinley Park, and abandoned city park across from the Tacoma Dome and I-5. It's littered and overgrown, a haven for drug dealers and winos.

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Toy repairman

Narcotics Anonymous

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Jim Merritt

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James R. Merritt
MERRIT-PARDINI
1701 Commerce
Tacoma, WA 98402-3207

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Ken Merry, City Water Supt

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Susan Mersereau
Vice President and General Mgr.
Weyerhaeuser Information Systems

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Maxine Mimms
Photo by Jerry Buck

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Mimms, Maxine

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Harold G. Moss

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Tacoma Fire Department personnel put Mike Moss, son of Harold Moss, into a waiting ambulance after he was stabbed near the 2700 block of 6th St. S.

Photo by Bill Hunter.

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Harold Moss holds a copy of his impassioned letter to his Tacoma city council colleagues asking for an anti-discrimination law for the city.

Photo by Geff Hinds.

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Harold G. Moss

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Harold G. Moss

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Harold G. Moss

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Harold G. Moss

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Harold G. Moss

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Harold Moss, City Councilman, 1975

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Harold Moss

Photo by Bruce Kellman

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New city council member Harold Moss greets those attending a reception at the Doric Inn Wednesday afternoon. The fundraiser is for Moss and gives community members a chance to meet him.

Staff photo by Joe Giron.

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Harold Moss has been selected again to serve on the Tacoma City Council. He was appointed to the Council in 1970.

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Moss, Harold

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Peter Garcia enjoys a bowl of turkey noodle soup Friday during the lunch time meal at the Nativity House at 1517 Commerce in Tacoma. Two meals a day are served free of charge to the needy. City officials are concerned with possible drug activity in the neighborhood.
Bruce Kellman with Mike Gilbert/story

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Serving food in this photo: On left are patrons of the free lunch. On right is Anna Maria Garcia. Next to her is Arturo Garcia, holding another plate of food. Men at the table are not identified.
A Mexican style lunch was served at the Nativity House in downtown Tacoma Wednesday. The rice, beans and meat for large burritos were supplied by Arturo Garcia, owner of Moctezuma restaurant. The meal was the idea of Anna Maria Garcia, a social worker with the Health Department's AIDs Outreach program. She asked Mr. Garcia, (who is no relation) to provide the food. Father Gary Smith, S. J., is director of the Nativity House. His establishment provided the setting. Anna Maria Garcia said that a table with literature used in the fight against AIDS was placed where the guests would have access to the information. She said many of the people she meets in her work are Latinos. The idea was to give them a Latino meal during Christmas week.
Note: McDonald's on 6th Avenue provided the orange drinks.
Bruce Kellman/Photo

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J. R. Robinson of "Superhair" hair salons works his wares on one in a long line of folks who waited patiently for one of a couple of dozen free haircuts donated by Robinson and Migael Schieder of "Suno Contemporary Hair Design" (both Tacoma bizs) today at the Nativity House on Commerce in Tacoma. The gesture was the brainchild of Anna Maria Garcia with the "Outreach" program of the Pierce County Health Department. Garcia used the opportunity to provide cutee's with informational literature and condoms to help fight AIDS.
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"Staff member Kevin Coley hugged a drop-in at Nativity House, a Commerce Street haven for the homeless." The Liberty Project revitalizing downtown Tacoma's Lower Pacific will most likely scatter the homeless population. However, according to people and organizations who work with rehabilitating people, it will not end the homelessness issue. It was suggested that the plan involve housing and training for the disadvantaged.

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Nativity House Worker & "Drop-In"
Larson

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The Nativity House, a warm refuge for area homeless, is facing a possible shortage of private donations because of the weak economy. As a means of raising more money to fund the Nativity House, Director Bob Sieber, left, hopes to organize a Beggars banquet fundraiser for February. Next to Sieber, is Henry Prill, a Jesuit Brother from Poland who is spending six months working with Sieber as part of his Jesuit training. Sieber and Prill were passing out warm meals to over 100 homeless recently.
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Needle Exchange
By Haley
Tacoma

Note: Photo likely by Peter Haley