Early in November a private social service agency, the Community Council of Atlanta, announced that it had received funds to pay the rent on a Community Center for six months. A community meeting was called. Kids. Bird people. Twelfth Gate folks, Harkey Klinefelter from the Street Ministry, and Universal Life Church ministers came together to form the Midtown Alliance to plan the community center. Late in December the center opened on Juniper Street providing a home for the free clinic, a place to took for crash sites, help with legal problems and jobs. For the first time lots of kids were in the community over the winter and the community center helped them stay.