After School Hospitality Program of St. Peter's Memorial Episcopal Church in Dansville, New York, Diocese of Rochester After School Hospitality Program St. Peter's sits on a corner of a park across from the Dansville Middle School. There are three other churches around the park.
Students often arrive early for school, and wait on church property for school to open.
After school, they hang around for awhile before going home. They drink soda pop and smoke cigarettes and visit with each other. We had the usual problems with litter, but we also had damage to downspouts, graffiti, thrown eggs at Halloween, and cigarettes stuck through vent holes in the window covers. Other churches had similar damage, and also suffered broken windows. Some parishioners called on the police to help, but short of hiring a private security firm, there seemed to be no way to protect the property.