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Caught in the web of Poverty
 
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19981101jbwelffoodT.jpg (8560 bytes)   Lennette Kistner carries groceries from the Indian Creek Valley Food Pantry in Normalville, Fayette County, during a monthly trip. She gets to the pantry by “bumming a ride.”
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19981101jbwelfdresT.jpg (9355 bytes) With minutes left before his ride to school arrives, Edward Kistner is refusing to get dressed, telling his mother that the yellow shirt she wants him to wear will draw taunts from classmates. “They’ll throw stones at me again,” he tells his mother, Lennette. After much coaxing, Edward puts on the shirt and heads to school.
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19981101jbwelfwipeT.jpg (8498 bytes) Martan Kistner, still wet from his morning shower, gets a last-minute scrub from his mother, Lennette, as they wait for the school bus on the front porch of their home in Melcroft, Fayette County.
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19981101jbwelfcallT.jpg (8316 bytes) In a moment of panic, Lennette Kistner begins calling friends for a ride home from her children’s dentist’s office in Normalville. The friend who had agreed to take them to and from the dentist had not shown up for the return trip. Her sons, Martan, left, and Edward, play in the waiting room.
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