Commissioner Yeager Volunteer Way fire stations seniors
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Okay. Okay, so we visited the Volunteer Way. That was Isn't that amazing? It's amazing. So um the gentleman in the bottom picture is Lester. He founded the Volunteer Way. So those are all of his plants out there. So they have banana trees, they have you n you name it. They have every fruit and vegetable out there that they grow, um their chickens with their fresh eggs. When we were there people were shopping and
picking their um their fresh fruits and vegetables. And they feed about twenty three families a month, which is absolutely amazing. I think it's more than that. Yeah. Twenty-three families? No, twenty three thousand. Okay, you said
twenty three. Yeah.
Oh yeah, no, twenty-three thousand. And um they have their They're um other location off of Moon Lake and they are looking to expand there. So next slide please. Commissioner
Yeager, do you know on their Moon Lake, um at their Moon Lake site, do they also grow? Do they have a kip farm? They we need we need them to do more farms. We
gotta
figure that out.
Oh it was amazing. Yeah. So beautiful. It's so relaxing. You have the fire pit out there because it was chilly. So this was a really um this was the Warrior Award presentation and so Captain Schrader, Christmas Eve, this mom walked into the fire station with her children and she was in a very dangerous situation. And she went to the fire station and she did not even have car seats to transport her children. So um Captain Captain
Schrader organized this along with his his team was amazing, and they got car seats for the mom, and they also provided uh an entire Christmas for her. So that was just an he went over above and beyond, but to thanks to him, um, they are safe and they had a Christmas and um It was just very sad that they were in a scary situation. So it was an honor to be there and the helmet is really cool. So all
right, next slide. Okay, so throughout the month of February, our office did random acts of love. So we popped up places and people didn't know when we were coming. So um we did a pop-up pantry in Moon Lake. So that's always great. We feed anywhere from 100 to 250 families when we go out there. So next slide. And this was our random acts of love. This was at the fire station. They did not know we were coming,
which was really cool. So our theme was let's taco about how amazing you are. So um they enjoyed that and um I got a tour and um it was really interesting. I encourage all of you, you know, go visit the different fire stations. This particular fire station um at Ship Change they have eighteen Firefighters there, but they only have two bathrooms, so and the showers are with the bathroom. So if somebody's showering, so just you know, when we think of their needs and things like that, that that stood
out to me. But um they have three bays there, they have the tool trucks. Which one is this one? This one was thirty nine. I was there for like an hour and a half. It was it was it was really great. They were great.
Well and where is thirty nine? I don't know.
That was in Sun Lake.
Sun Lake, okay.
Yep. All right, next slide. And this was um our seniors center. They did not know we were coming, so we decorated the tables. We brought prizes and goodies and we played bingo and let me tell you bingo's very serious. So um You have to make sure that you uh call those numbers properly. Um all right, so they had a great time. They were all clapping when we left. So um this was the sheriff's office, so we gave them breakfast
sandwiches and I I just requested a dog. And they brought three dogs. So we brought dog treats for the for the canines. So that was that was the best part. All right, next slide. That's it? Okay. Boy, that was it. All right. And for the area of aging, um they had lost some funding, so they are trying to rally the delegation, you know, for Tallahassee to see if we can get some
of that um funding back. They get Roughly about a thousand calls a week. So that is a lot of calls for their for their small staff. They're small but super efficient. Um they went over their diapers for dignity program where people can donate. Items for the seniors and that has been working great. So if any of you have any items you want to donate, let me know. And um that's all I have.
Thank you. Can you get a list out to what they're looking for? Absolutely. All right. I think County Administrator?