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Posted by Jeremy Aldrich on November 19th, 2009
Posted by Jeremy Aldrich on November 19th, 2009
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The Arts Council of the Valley First Fridays Downtown for this month is Friday, September 3, 5 – 7pm. Scheduled events are listed in the following press release: Arts Council of the Valley, Smith House, 311 S. Main St. Michael Hough, Sculpture, Sarah Byrd, Book Signing, and Kimmon Waldruff, Acoustic Sets Arts Council of the Valley [...]
Fairfield Center’s Harrisonburg Summits series continues with a evening focusing on creating connections between local college students and the community at the Harrisonburg Student-Citizen Summit. The free event is scheduled from 3:30- 9:00 pm on Tuesday, September 21st, and will convene at Memorial Hall (Entrance B), the former Harrisonburg High school at James Madison University. [...]
Three Rockingham County preservation groups are warning the Board of Supervisors of the potentially hazardous effects of unregulated drilling in Bergton. State mining officials will not require emergency management plans for a proposed Marcellus Shale natural gas well near Bergton in Rockingham County despite growing reports of explosions and other accidents at similar wells in [...]
Makes you wonder how a group that can house only 12 families got $700,000 in stimulus funds and what they’re going to do with that much money.
I’m not affiliated with MH, so this is just speculation, but as an outsider, I would make a low estimate of three people per family unit, multiply that by twelve, then saying MH is at capacity all year long which seems to be the case with the waiting list, I would multiply by 52 weeks in the year = 1872. Then, $700,000 / 1872 = $373.93 a person a week. $373.93 / 7 = $53.42 a person a day. And it’s probably less seeing as they support other personal needs, offer career and family counseling, and offer other community programs than just daily meals and lodging; and of course incur some administrative costs. Doesn’t really seem unreasonable to me.
I looked on their website for financial info, but didn’t see any.
But here’s their phone number if you want to ask: (540) 432-1812.
I volunteered at MH a while back and they always have a waiting list. While I was there the housing needed a lot of repairs (probably due to the number of families coming through) so $700,000 could be spent on fixing the units easily. The housing units are VERY basic but get a lot of use.
Emmy;
What kind of volunteer opportunities were available?
It’s been a while Bubby, but at the time I was looking for something to do with my children. They had a family that spoke a language that no one seemed to know and the family had a small child that needed some interaction with other kids. We went and took her outside to play a few times. They weren’t there very long. I also helped with some eBay auctions they were doing of donated items.