Brother Benno’s celebrates 90th birthday of longtime spiritual leader

Brother Benno’s celebrates 90th birthday of longtime spiritual leader

In the dining room of The Brother Benno Center, a refuge for the area’s poor and homeless, more than 100 people gathered recently to celebrate the 90th birthday of the Rev. Charles Wright, who has been a spiritual guide there for four decades. Wright has been involved with Brother Benno’s since Harold and Kay Kutler opened it as a soup kitchen in 1983 in a cottage on Minnesota Avenue in Oceanside. The couple was inspired to help people by the la…