Alice's Corner

I am baaack!  With respiratory and allergy problems I can almost breathe again.

We say "Bon Voyage" to Amy Tilley and the GSE team.  God speed.

Our other wanderers are still in Brazil.  

Our speaker was Jan Webster, a director of CASA Support Council.   The word CASA is an acronym for Court Appointed Special Advocates.  They speak for the children going through the court systems.  Some of their funds are generated through the unclaimed lottery money as well as some county funds.

The council supports their unmet needs.  .  They show them that there is another kind of life other than the one they have grown up with.  3000 cases are in the system.  They can only deal with about 300 cases.  The most severe ones.  Each volunteer has about 3 cases.  They follow the child until they are out of the system.  They offer a consistency in the child's life

Anyone hearing the poem that Jan read at the end of her speech had to be moved to tears.  We wish them all well.

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