'Daily NewsMakers with Jeff Lytle:' Vann Ellison of St. Matthew’s House homeless shelter

This week’s Naples Daily NewsMakers with Jeff Lytle program covers global and local issues.

Guests this morning at 10 on ABC 7 discuss the Holocaust in the Ukraine, St. Matthew’s House move into Bonita Springs and Part III of the Daily News’ Lighthouse Project.

Those guests are Father Patrick Desbois of France, a Holocaust tracker who was a guest speaker of the Jewish Federation of Collier County; Vann Ellison, CEO of the St. Matthew’s House homeless shelter; and Kate Albers and Allen Bartlett of the Daily News staff.

Video highlights are at naplesnews.com/newsmakers

Here are excerpts:

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Jeff Lytle: The full-page ad that you took out in the Daily News (about St. Matthew’s being so determined to come to Bonita) did that help soothe anything, or did that just add fuel to the fire?

Vann Ellison: I don’t know. You know I get ... we get letters of support, people encouraging us all the time.

Lytle: We don’t get them.

Ellison: Well, I’m sure you don’t. You don’t probably get death threats over this either, but I do. We get threats. We get it from both sides.

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