Peter and Paul Community Services

Volunteer Sam Roth, right, plays chess with a Biddle House shelter resident on July 9, 2018. The chess club began in 2016, the same year the shelter opened.

Arts

Shared love of chess helps build bridges at St. Louis homeless shelter

Shahla Farzan

Terry Austin eyes his opponent across the chessboard, then deftly captures his knight.A few moves later, opponent Ed Rataj admits defeat.The two play in…

Arts

After the party, largely unseen workers keep St. Louis Mardi Gras running

The Mardi Gras crowd was thinning out, and drunk revelers zigzagged in the middle of the street, kicking cans and shivering in the 35-degree weather. As…

Carr Square resident Catina Wilson speaks to a panel of city officials and representatives from St. Patrick Center and Peter and Paul Wed. May 25, 2016 at the public hearing on the agencies' application to run Biddle House.

Government, Politics & Issues

Agencies applying to run St. Louis' new Biddle House shelter meet skeptical potential neighbors

If their reception at a community meeting Wednesday night is any indication, the agencies who submitted the only application to run a new homeless shelter…

The former Garfield School in St. Louis has been renovated and will open on Nov. 19, 2014, as Garfield Commons with 25 apartments for single chronically homeless adults.

Government, Politics & Issues

New Homeless Facility To Open In St. Louis

When Garfield Commons, the former Garfield Elementary School in St. Louis, formally opens this week, it will provide 25 apartments for single homeless…

Arts

Art exhibit by once-homeless men traces their journey back to stability

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 22, 2009 - Every Thursday night at the parish hall across from Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic Church…