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The Daily Tar HeelThursday, August 22, 19911 1 A,- 1 Homeless man does more than share at shelter frontpage 3A- By Warren Hynes Staff Writer Leonard Powell walks out of the kitchen with an air of satisfaction. Another meal has been served, and he has played a big part in it. He has made sure the kitchen has remained clean and has fulfilled all duties that go along with being a volunteer supervisor at the Inter-Faith Council Community Kitchen and Shelter. But Powell is different from some of the other volunteers at the kitchen and shelter. He isn't there just to serve food. He's there to eat as well. And to sleep. Leonard Powell is homeless. "If you work, you kind of earn your bed," he said. Since leaving home because of fam ily problems several years ago, Powell has been a continuous volunteer at the kitchen and an "in-and-out" resident of .the shelter, he said. ; "I had nowhere to go," Powell said. ;"I didn't want to sleep in my car." ; Powellsportsahusky.teddy-bearlike build, wearing a brown and blue flannel shirt and blue jeans. His white hair hints at his 58 years, and his sideburns stretch just below his ears. As he sits behind the reception desk at the shelter, he talks of some of his past experiences at the kitchen. Powell has been a volunteer since the original shelter opened Nov. 1, 1982, on the corner of Rosemary and Sunset streets, he said. "I saw to it that they needed a little help." ; For five years, the kitchen and shel ter were not together in the same build ing, and Powell said this was quite in convenient for shelter guests, especially during the winter. "We used to have to go walk out in the cold to eat," he said. "It was eat, hit the street, come back and eat, hit the street." Some eight and one-half years later, Powell is a fully established supervisor at the kitchen, which is now located together with the shelter in the old mu nicipal building at the corner of Rose mary and Columbia streets. Powell said he has the responsibility of making sure the kitchen remains clean, and as the room appears virtually spotless, it seems he has been doing his job. He has a list of his "things to do" tucked in his pocket and has been busily accomplishing those duties this after noon. But when Powell stops his work and sits down to talk, this man reveals some of the fear that he feels. "I'm just glad for the shelter to be here, because otherwise, there's no tell ing where I'd be," he said. "I haven't come to make a home. I'm just in a position where I can't get out." ; Powell said he drove a cab for most of his life but had to stop when he got sick. He has tried to find another paying Stone from page 1A personal touch. "She talked to you on a personal level and treated you as an equal." ; Trudier Harris, chairwoman of the Curriculum in African and Afro-American Studies, said she would long re tnember Stone's commitment to stu dents. ; A University memorial service will be conducted Sept. 5 at 3 p.m. in Memo rial Hall. A scholarship and an award for undergraduate teaching have been established in Stone's memory. ; BSM President Amie Epps said the BSM and the Residence Hall Associa tion had dedicated their programs this year to Stone. The BSM and the BCC will kick off a two-week celebration of Stone's life with a party in Great Hall Friday night. "Her keen insight and her concern for students and being an informed ac tivist prepared us to be activists, and that has affected my life," Epps said. 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However, -"the resolution would not have passed if ; Tim had not appointed representatives,", j he said. Heyd said the case was not important j and was detracting from other student congress business. , ; "The supreme court cases are always 1 moot,"Heydsaid."Theyfocuson small, 1 nitpicking issues that infer the rules of 1 student government instead of what stu- dent government should be doing." ! jane Hutchinson, a UNC graduate, prepares bread in the Inter-Faith Council Shelter DTHlim Holm job but has had no luck, he said. "I've just given up because of the way the system works." In addition, he says he requires some government aid. "I need help with so cial security." But he is not without a substantial family. Powell has five daughters, one son and eight grandchildren. They visit some, but Powell feels a kind of pain when family members visit the home less shelter, he said. "It kind of hurts for your grandchildren to come see you when you're down on your luck." Whether Powell is really an unlucky man is debatable. While talking to shel ter volunteers and guests, he brings smiles almost instantaneously to their faces by the warmth in his voice and the good nature in his words. It seems that he has touched the lives of many people in this building. "You can't come here and not do something," Powell said. Powell gets up and walks into the kitchen. He picks up a mop and starts cleaning the kitchen floor, doing his part. But doing much more than just "earn ing his bed." TARHEEL TANNING lOvisits-$34oo &BEACHWEAR Other 5alons Pale in Comparison 20 off Ladies Swimwear 145V2 E. Franklin St. above Baskin Robbins 929-1233 HEWLETT HP-95LX $529.95 rifcWIfcl I HP-48SX 254.95 PACKARD HP48S 182.95 calcu lators hmb :::::::::::::::::::::::::::95 All the functions you need hpaIbu 12895 plus the quality you deserve. hp-2os ...!"!"!"!"!!."!"!"!!"!,.32!9S HP-21S 40.95 -ml m ' II Hr-zs os.ys - . 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