Not in my backyard

Special Issue | Dallas mayor criminalizes homelessness and those who try to serve the homeless | John Dawson

DALLAS—When Will Edwards gathers the troops at Park Cities Baptist Church, one of the volunteers notices something different. "All cleaned up now, I see," says one volunteer wearing a Philadelphia Eagles hat in decidedly Dallas Cowboys territory. "You know, I do this on occasion," replied Edwards, who today is wearing his gray hair short and is cleanly shaven. Volunteers in Rip Parker Memorial Homeless Ministry who regularly go with Edwards to feed Dallas' homeless know Edwards better with longer hair and a grizzly, unkempt beard like the one on his driver's license.

What's the occasion, Will? "We're in court now, so I got to look like a nice guy," Edwards fires back. What he means is, not like a homeless guy, which the 52-year-old Edwards has been off and on his entire adult life.

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March 24, 2007, Vol. 22, No. 11

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