It was a “Night of Hope” and some tears as well Thursday evening at the MRPS Hall.The HOPE Ministries Family Shelters’ second annual Donor Appreciation Dinner fundraiser hosted by the Raymus Homes highlighted a former addict that lived for 7½ years on the streets before successfully turning her life around. She is now HOPE Ministries’ outreach coordinator working full-time with the homeless and Manteca addicts. Master of ceremonies Sheldon Vicks said the moral support Michelle Whitaker has received during the last few years of her life is what the Hope Family Shelter program is all about with her becoming a counselor for the destitute – many of whom she knew by their first names on the street.