Happy Birthday!  What an inspiration you are to all of us serving in this industry!!!!

LuAnn Busch
Beach Club Residential Living, Inc.

---- The Home Farms <homefarms450@gmail.com> wrote:
> Cannot help but share with this OPRA group about our birthday!!!
>
> The Home Farms, as a group home for folks with disabilities, is 40 years old this week. It is hard to believe, but, we started this whole thing 40 years ago!!!   It was never intended to be a group home; it simply started as a mom and pop operation when a six year old boy was in Orient in a “ward” of adult men.  One thing led to another and over the years, we have become two homes: one for eight; and one for four.
>
> We have never counted how many individuals have lived here, BUT we are fortunate that most who came were able to stay for years, not just weeks or months. Our “newest” individual came in 2007 and the “newest” before that came in 1997.
>
> We feel so blessed to have the support of the families and the community and even more so, we feel SO blessed to have the wonderful caring staff we have!!!!
>
> Our staff surprised Joann Jones, the founder, and me (her partner in life and business for 32 years) with a grand celebration this past Sunday!   Even the County Commissioners were here and read a grand proclamation!
>
> Happy birthday, Home Farms!
>
> bev brubaker
> homefarms450@gmail.com
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