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Overcoming the odds: Former gang member finds home
Yesterdays bad news is todays good news
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Good News at Noon Director Thomas Ramirez with some of the weapons staffers have taken from kids over time. The guns are BB or other nonfirearm imitations, but the knives and a throwing star are real. - photo by NAT GURLEY
Thomas Ramirez has a passion for helping people overcome their demons. It’s a battle he understands personally and one he sees playing out hundreds of times each day at the Good News at Noon homeless shelter in Gainesville where he serves as director. Ramirez often uses his life story as a lesson for young people visiting the shelter’s academy, an after-school program.