What else JK did on Thursday.

Kerry points to ’The most important work’
By Patrick Brodrick/ Staff Writer


Thursday, June 22, 2006

CLINTON - It has housed disadvantaged and troubled youth since the Victorian era, but on Monday the Robert F. Kennedy Action Corps in Lancaster hosted both local and federal politicians, including former presidential-candidate U.S. Sen. John Kerry.

More than 100 people showed up to commemorate the opening of the new residence on the Lancaster Campus. Before the ceremony began, members of the Lancaster Board of Selectmen milled about with State Rep. Jamie Eldridge and Harold Naughton, who just returned home from a tour of duty in Kuwait and Iraq.

The center, which houses 52 students, finally opened its new residence hall that has 72 beds and four wings and is the first part of a two-phase, $14.5 million renovation project. By the time the project is finished there will be a 37,000 square-foot homelike residence and family center, coupled with state-of-the-art computer labs, classrooms, gymnasium and a new library.

Kerry, who headlined the opening ceremony, met with a group of the students before he made his way over to lead the gathered crowd, with the help of several of the Action Corps students, through the pledge of allegiance.

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Father Duch said he believed Bishop Wuerl would be more interested in educating Catholic politicians about their faith than lobbying them on public policy.

"He would approach them more as a teacher, teaching them about what we believe. Then the politicians have to follow their own conscience, weighing what he is saying," Father Duch said.

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