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Show Friday, March 28, 3003, THE DAILY HERALD, (www.HarkTheHerald.com). Provo, Utah taifiy Bii33 kmm Ispl 11 mifim F By MERLE ENGLISH --- w- 1' sometimes we have to walk a mile uphill with 100 pound bags of cement stones and blocks to build the foundation. Sometimes we have to take buckets of water as Newsday After Robert and Mary Grace Foti honeymooned in Jamaica in June 2001, they came away granting to help people living in poverty there. Robert Foti, then 42 and a firefighter assigned to Ladder 7 in Manhattan, never had a chance to do anything, Jbur months later, he was killed in the World Trade Center terrorist attacks. ' Now, however, Foti is memorialized in a wooden home built for an . Caribbean island as part of an effort to lift some of the misery he saw there. The home is one of about 500 little wooden houses built for the poor in Jamaica by Food for the Poor, a Florida-base- d charity, with mone: it raised in a special appeal to honor the heroes who died Sept 11,2001. For each of the rescuers who died in the World Trade Center - each ofthe 343 firefighters, 37 Port Authority police, and 23 Police Department officers a house was dedicated. The survivors received a photograph showing the home built to honor their loved one and the family living in it. Mary Grace Foti said she cried when she got her photo in the mail. "It just really touched me," said the Huntington Station, N.Y., resident, "because when we got there we were both stunned to S66 the poverty and how people lived in some places that don't even have walls." "I know it would have meant so much to him to be able to Help," she said. "It was x !T i ... amazing how that worked tricity or plumbing, each cost out It made me feel good that Bob was there. ... I would love $2,000 in US. currency to build. to meet the family." Angel Aloma, executive of Food for the Poor in Deerfield, Fla., said that after 911, "We felt frustrated that unlike other organizations, we weren't able to make a generous contribution" to honor "the heroes that died trying to save others." Aloma said someone came up with the idea to ask people to build houses in memory of the firefighters and Denise Barrett's new home, reached only on foot, is in an area called Top Maryland in the hills above Kingston, Jamaica's capital, It is named for Joseph Agnel-l- o of Belle Harbor, a firefighter with Ladder 118 in Brook- vice-preside- nt police officers. "People responded beautifully," he said. More than $1 million flowed in, much of it from New York, for the project they dubbed, "September 11 Dedication." The homes, which do not come with elec lyn. Barrett, 32, lives with her daughters, Kishana, 11, and Terika, 14 months, in the d home painted in blue, light green, yellow and white. It has a small verandah with a sweeping view of a zinc-roofe- valley. She said she is grateful for a home she can call her own on an island where housing for the indigent is in short supply. "It's much better," Barrett said, "cause I am on my own. Without it rd still be living with my parents." So would Simon and Christopher Walters, brothers who left cramped family quarters to live in one of the little homes built on the side of a steep hilL "It's a good thing, man " Christopher Walters said of the Sept 11 housing project "Whole heap more youth ask me how we come by this." To qualify for a home, applicants must own or lease land. Construction can take as little as two days or longer if the building site which is often on high ground is difficult to reach. Filmore Farquharson, part of a Food for the Poor construction crew on the island, said donkeys are used to transport materials, "but toourfallea" . Many of the 911 families have also written to say how much the houses have touched them Geraldine Halderman of Brentwood, N.Y., lost her son, David, 40, from Engine Squad 18. "Thank you for the beautiful tribute to his heroism," she wrote. "A home for the poor dedicated to his memory is a fine tribute. I thank you, and I am very touched." She also sent a donation. Joan De Meo's husband, Martin, was assigned to the Hazmat Company in Queens. "Your loving gesture was such a wonderful tribute," the Farmingville, N.Y., resident wrote. 1 By MAI I HEW BARAKAT Associated Press Writer Va. MANASSAS, , -L- awyers for, sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad received permission Thurs- MJ W M yfcJJ Hi I II I III H a psychologist to evaluate his mental health. But the judge temporarily denied requests to hire private investigators. The mental-healt- h experts were not identified during the hearing before Prince William Circuit Judge te LeRoyF. Millette Je Millette said he wanted to know more details about what the investigators would be looking for before giving defense attorney Peter Green-spu- n them. the opportunity to hire want you to give up but I need some case, your more information, I'm not going to give you a blank check," Millette said. "I don't Greenspun had said that investigators at the very least would have to travel to Louisiana and Washington state and may have to travel internationally. Millette set another hearing on April 11, at which time prosecutors and defense attorneys are to have agreed on deadlines for turning over evidence in the case. Muhammad, 42, and his alleged accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, 18, have been linked to 20 shootings last year, including 13 deaths, in Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and the District of Columbia. Both could get the death penalty. - J ,1 MLKLt ENGLISH Newsday Place to call home; Denise Barrett is at home with her daughters Kishana, 11, and Terika, 14 months, outside their oneroom, wood house in Jamaica, dedicated in honor of a fallen firefighter. prulnttchell I 480 North 900 East Provo, UT 84606 . . tmwncei h$m laboratory are 801.374.51 jnrbprvised students vj.- ' Lawyers for sniper suspect get OK to test mental health with KnitkT m . But ifs a labor of love. "We try to get these houses to the poorest of the poor . said Pearl Barrett, a Food for the Poor housing manager, "people who are destitute, the aged, blind, people mentally or physically challenged, people who've been through disasters. They are very, very comfy. You want to give people a better way of life." "Some dogs have kennels while people don't have a decent shelter," remarked Richard Forrester, a Food for the Poor investigations officer in Jamaica. 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