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    Rancho day laborer center closes

    http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_4000596

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    Rancho day laborer center closes

    By Mason Stockstill, Staff Writer
    Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

    RANCHO CUCAMONGA - The nonprofit ministry running Rancho Cucamonga’s day labor center has closed the operation.
    Connie Perlick, of TOUCH Ministries, said the organization’s board of directors wanted her to spend more time working for the ministry rather than running the work center, which she had been doing since December.

    "It’s been a blessing," Perlick said. "I don’t regret it, but I just couldn’t do it any longer."

    The property at Grove Avenue and Arrow Highway also recently changed hands, Perlick said, and the new owner told her he planned to build on it soon. The center eventually would have had to close, she said.

    Perlick had anticipated operating the center for just a month or two when the city of Rancho Cucamonga first sought out a nonprofit group to run it last year.

    That month stretched into a few months, and then a few more, she said.

    "The ministry was suffering because I was spending all my time (at the day labor center), and I don’t get paid for that," she said.

    The center typically averaged about 70 men each morning, and roughly 40 per day found work, Perlick said.

    Last week, Perlick had told the regular laborers who gather at the center about the impending closure, and provided them with information about other places they can find work or assistance.

    The property will be fenced up this weekend, and laborers will no longer congregate there looking for work.

    "I believe they’re really doing well. Today there was nobody out on the corner," Perlick said. "We’ve had less and less men coming since I made the announcement last week."

    Rancho Cucamonga only recently OK’d the creation of the day labor center, after court battles in 2002 ended with modifications to several city ordinances targeting such workers.

    The city once banned soliciting work on public streets, which was later amended to allow laborers to seek work from the sidewalk.


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    Doesn't matter what the reason......KEEP CLOSING THESE ILLEGAL SITES. Let's STOP making it so damned easy for these people to make American $$$.
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