New Faces at AHH

Starting on March 1st, we have a new staff member joining us. Chrissy Nesbitt will be joining us for a year. Her presence is highly anticipated and much needed. We are looking forward to all she will bring to the House. Please help us to welcome her.

Some time in April, we will also be blessed with a new baby around the house. Micah is expecting a new sibling, due April 8th, Easter Sunday and Grandma’s Birthday. Mom is doing well and all seems great with the pregnancy so far. Any guesses on girl or boy? We’ll let you know more when we know more.

We are all excited to have new life brought into the house.

Landscaping AHH

As many of you who have visited us know, there is quite a bit of land to tend to around the house. Earlier this year, we sent a note to Warden Bates requesting some help from the women over at FPC Alderson. We thought this would be a great way for our two organizations to work together. Our request was granted, and four great women come to help us out every Thursday for a few hours. We will only use their help for a few more weeks cleaning up the land, but we hope to start fresh in the Spring. The women have been great! They know what they are doing, and the place looks totally different already. I can’t wait to see what it looks like come spring when the bulbs pop up, and we have some help keeping the weeds down.

Blankets from the Prison

Many of the women at FPC Alderson crochet homemade blankets for their beds. The last warden at the prison banned multicolored blankets, and so the women were forced to send their blankets home or get rid of the blankets in other ways. Instead of throwing them away, the women requested that they be donated to organizations that could use them. The Hospitality House was the recipient of many of these beautiful blankets. They will really help to add color, personality and warmth to our home. Thank you women of FPC Alderson for your donation!

Alderson Girl Scouts Beautify the Front Garden

Led by Tamar Wallace and Renee Hemmelgarn, the Daisies of Alderson cleaned up and planted new flowers and shrubs in the front garden. It was a fun afternoon of pulling, digging, and planting. We also received a new bird feeder from the girls, which replaced a recently broken feeder from the front yard. Thank you, girls, for all your hard work. The garden looks much nicer because of you.