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HAVERHILL — Ornamental bushes might look nice, but when it comes time to provide people in need with something healthy to eat, a vegetable garden seemed like a better option.
By Win Damon | File photograph. (Image licensed by Ingram Image.) Despite changing state rules throughout the pandemic, Haverhill’s Community Action has been able to continue serving homeless and near-homeless residents with its Drop-In Center inside Haverhill’s Universalist Unitarian Church. Longtime Drop-in Center Director Pat Dennehy says the early days of the pandemic created great difficulties because of the then-state limitation of serving just 10 individuals at a time. “Usually we served about 75 people a day and we had to cut down to 10 which was difficult. The decision was ba...