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THE CITY OF SANTA ROSA HONORS LIA ROWLEY The Village, a unique alternative model, is located in the 1300 block of Kawana Terrace Road in southeast Santa Rosa. It opened with children in two of the four houses and three surrogate grandparents in the three grandparent units. There will be four more houses built, three more grandparent units and a community center. When the project is completed, it will house 48 children. In honor of Founder, Lia Rowley, the new address is: If you missed them, you can still read *NOTES: The freely available Acrobat Reader is required to view this document. If you don't have Adobe Reader click here. Also, the newsletter is 2 MB in size and users may experience a delay while downloading. However, the document is beautiful...so it's well worth it!
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By Lia Rowley Thanks to you our donors, volunteers and supporters, we now have children running through the Village, riding bikes, spinning hula-hoops playing basketball, and simply “being kids.” Thanks to all of you, our Village is fulfilling the part in society that we always dreamed it would. The squeals and peals of laughter are long awaited music to our ears! Thanks to your dedication to the dream of a new model of foster care, several sets of brothers and sisters are living in our first two homes. Thanks to everyone involved, plans are under way to hire more staff and prepare the third home for future children. The Village is buzzing with activities of all kinds while the children, all between the ages of 6 and 12, are getting adjusted to living here. The new Village parents are working hard to provide nurturing family homes. Volunteers are providing educational programs and special activities, and the three Village grandparents deserve medals for their commitment and loving support.
We welcome you to celebrate this moment with us. It is time to thank all of you who have given their skill, time, donations and moral support. The encouragement from our community has been overwhelming. Now we look forward to a future full of success: keeping children together with their siblings, and creating families for children who are in need. We know that you will be there for us, helping to create this success by continuing the support, and generosity you’ve always shown to the Village.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
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