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Monday
Feb082010

Former Orphanage Resident Says Building Should be Used as a School

For many years starting in 1993, Coralyn Guidry was a regular fixture outside the Diocese's headquarters on North Avenue in Burlington. In the 1960s, Guidry and five of her siblings lived in what was then the St. Joseph's orphanage. Guidry is hoping to pull together a group of investors willing to buy that building and put it to good use. Exactly what that "good use" would be, Guidry can't say for sure, though she hopes it would take the form of a school or family center for children and adults who've experienced abuse and neglect.
 

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