Dec 23, 2020
A Christmas tree is pictured at the Jamestown Municipal Building to celebrate 35 years of The Salvation Army’s Anew Center. Salvation Army officials are with Jamestown Mayor Eddie Sundquist.
Submitted photo
In 1906, a residence was dedicated to the community by its owner to be used as a boarding home for working women and eventually out-of-town women attending local colleges.
Eventually the residence was given to The Salvation Army under the recommendation that it be used as a shelter for runaway teen-aged girls and homeless women and children.
On Christmas Eve, 1985 an officer from the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office brought a woman and her three children to Jamestown from the north county. The mother was a victim of domestic violence.