Good News Center

No place in California, save for the borderlands of Imperial, is poorer than this place. Like the fields, despair runs clear to the horizon. So it comes as no surprise that residents approach the cluster of buildings on the north side of Visalia -- a refuge known as the Good News Center -- as if it were hallowed ground. For years, a small relentless nun with the unusual name of Sister Kenneth Quinn has performed what the down-and-out here consider miracles.