When Sylvia Barnard dreams, watch out. Her dreams have a relentless habit of coming true.
For a long time now, Barnard has dreamt about launching a food truck operation that sells food raised and prepared by the clients living in one of many Good Samaritan homeless shelters run by Barnard.
She can’t tell you when this dream first came to her. So long ago, she said, squinting into the past, she can no longer remember the details. But a while later, she remembered that it might have been inspired by Los Angeles’s Father Greg Boyle, whose successful and now legendary Homeboy Industries food trucks helped Los Angeles gangbangers find their way off the streets and into another life.
For the past 27 years, Barnard has also been in the redemption racket, her focus being the county’s burgeoning homeless population. Today, the Good Samaritan operation boasts 1,000 beds, 85 programs, and 40 locations that serve 5,000 people in the region a year…