By Stephen Nelson
Saying Fortitude Outreach management has concluded the organization is not welcome here, Executive Director Dawn Broers told the Monday, April 24, meeting of the Kankakee City Council’s Committee of the Whole that it is scrapping plans to construct a 36-bed, 24 hour homeless shelter on North Washington Avenue. Broers said Fortitude will move its shelter out of Kankakee entirely. Manteno’s Village Board recently announced a donation of $37,699 to Fortitude for the now canceled shelter’s construction.