Sleeping on a bench in front of a Taco Bell wasn’t exactly how Elijah Phillips imagined his senior year of high school at Rocky River would start.
He tried to get a hotel room with some money he had saved, but the hotel wouldn’t rent to an 18-year-old. So, Phillips found himself on the street after leaving Florida, where he had been living with his father for eight months.
After seeing Phillips on his makeshift bed a few nights last fall, some of the restaurant employees brought him food at the end of their shifts…