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To: LPS5 who wrote (66)	11/5/2001 9:55:27 PM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 88

Jorge Velazquez, 47 (SNYT) Jorge was always looking for one more hungry soul to feed. This was in the mid-1990's. Mr. Velazquez, a deeply religious man from Puerto Rico, had founded a program to feed the homeless at his Seventh-day Adventist church, and commuting home to Spanish Harlem from a a shipping job at a shoulder-pad factory, would keep an eye out for the down-and-out, recalled his longtime friend Anthony. Jorge and his wife would cook big pots of rice and beans and stew and on Saturdays, they would pile their four kids onto the car, make the rounds in some of Manhattan's saddest spots and ladle out hot dinners. "I'd ask him where he found these people and he'd say, 'Coming home from work I saw someone walking around and I got out of my far and followed them to where they were.' " Anthony related. "He was a very determined man." Determined to make things better for his family, Mr. Velazquez landed a job as a security guard for Morgan Stanley at the World Trade Center in 1999, and he quickly worked his way up to security specialist. He had just bought a house in NJ and was moonlighting as a security guard to help pay for it. Now his family members are starting a program to feed the homeless at their local church.