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Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019 - She~ton-Mason County Journal - Page A-3
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michael@masoncoun com
The past several months at Turning
Pointe were marked with new ideas
and a fresh look at raising money for
Shelton's domestic violence survivor
advocacy center.
over as exec-
utive director at Turning Pointe, Gina
Blanchard-Reed, whose background is
in nonprofit organizational fundrais-
ing, has breathed some new life into
Turning Pointe. She's most excited
about a new program she's implement-
ed at Turning Pointe, one that calls on
the community to show its support for
those who use of Turning Pointe's ser-
vices.
"Since I've been here, we've devel-
oped an Adopt-a-Room opportunity for
individuals and businesses and civic
groups to participate in sort of a finan-
cial component or in-kind to provide
a few things that our shelter clients
need with their rooms," Blanchard-
Reed said.
Blanchard-Reed explained that for
$100 a month, or a $1,200 annual gift,
donators cdn help furnish one of the 13
rooms in the shelter for domestic wo-
lence victims.
The center totals 60 beds and four
common space rooms, and the idea is
to help make the transition into the
shelter a soft landing spot for those
who need it most.
"Some of the families that come to
us are literally leaving in the middle
of the night with nothing, sometimes
they travel by bus for hours, and they
get to us exhausted, stressed out,
and then they meet with their advo-
cate and do some initial paperwork,"
Blanchard-Reed said. "It could be
hours later that they finally get to
their room. The rooms, with the clean-
ing and high turnover and all that,
they tend to be a little sterile."
With little fanfare Blanchard-
Reed said the advocacy center is still
working through some logistics be-
fore launching a full campaign sev-
eral groups have already sponsored
a Turning Pointe shelter room. They
include Dinah Griffey and state Rep.
Dan Griffey, Dr. Kyle Hackney of
Hackney Family Dentistry in Shelton.
Our Community Credit Union staff,
and the Loving & Learning Child Care
Center in Yelm. Blanchard-Reed said
in addition, the Shelton Rotary Club is
adopting a room in honor of two Rotar-
ians who helped a local resident out of
a years' long domestic violence situa-
tion.
"This idea is for people in the com-
munity to partner in-kind for $100 a
month or $1,200 a year," Blanchard-
Reed said. "I kind of soft-launched it, I
put it on our Facebook, I put it on our
website the response already has
been pretty exciting."
There are two options for groups
or individuals to participate in the
Turning Po nte n
behalf for
Option !i." Purchase four twin
sl eets/bedding seB;
sheets/bedding
area rugs
Adopt-a-Room program. A $1,200 an-
nual donation will help Turning Pointe
furnish shelter rooms for women and
families with bedding, supplies and
new furniture as needed. In addition,
Turning Pointe furnishes each room
with a welcome basket on behalf of the
donor. Donors are encouraged to write
handwritten notes of support to those
entering the shelter.
The second option allows for donors
to purchase four twin mattress sheets/
bedding sets; four full mattress sheets/
bedding sets; eight new pillows; four
area rugs (eight throw pillows and
blankets; supplies for welcome baskets
(soaps, dental floss, toothbrushes, fem-
inine products, shaving razors, etc.).
"I did do some research, and when I
looked across the country at homeless
shelters and domestic violence shel-
ters, there's a variety of ways a pro-
gram like this could work. But I liked
the option of the in-kind and the finan-
cial," Blanchard-Reed said. "The idea,
as a fundraiser, when people sponsor
something, when we tell them we ap-
preciate it. it involves them and they
feel a part of it."
To learn more about the Adopt-a-
Room program, email Blanchard-Reed
at tpointedirector@questoffice.net. For
further information about making ad-
ditional donations to Turning Pointe
or for volunteer opportunities through
the center, visit www.turningpointe.
org.
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Emma Marie LaRue
Emma Marie LaRue, a girl, was
born Jan. 7, 2019, to Nicole and Tyler
LaRue of Grapeview. She weighed 8
pounds, 1 ounce, and was 21 inch-
es long. Her grandparents are Jeff
McHargue of Shelton, Debbie McHar-
gue of Medford, Oregon, and Rod and
Nanci LaRue of Grapeview. Her great-
grandparents are Nancy Roughley of
Shelton, Lloyd and Ann McHargue of
Shelton, Marvin and Rae LaRue Sr. of
Lake Havasu City, Arizona, and Rob-
ert Souder of Graham.
Runa Ann Wilson
Runa Ann Wilson, a girl, was born
Jan. 24, 2019, at Capital Medical Cen-
ter in Olympia. She weighed 6 pounds,
1 ounce. Her parents are Nathaniel
Wilson and Kasey Coy of Shelton.
To submit a birth announcement,
email news@masoncounty.com.
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