Public comment on Hope Shot recovery
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The county’s agenda for Board of County Commissioners, Oct 21, 2025
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The county’s minutes for Board of County Commissioners, Oct 21, 2025
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What was said
Machine transcription of 2m of recording, with speaker names inferred from voice matching. 71% of 7 lines carry a name. It shows what was said, not what was decided, and both the words and the names can be wrong.
ultimately gonna happen. I will wind up locked in a cage in an institution or buried in a pine box deep in the ground. What I can only describe the ne next that happened as divine intervention. Um I ultimately received a scholarship from the Hope Shop to get into Silver Living and I refer to that as Divine Intervention. Because the present day results of that are truly miraculous. Um today. I'm an active member of my community. I give back I do my best to enrich the world around me on a daily basis. I help other
addicts achieve sobriety not because I'm paid to do it because I'm not. It's because it's it's what I'm called to do. I get to celebrate my mother's golden years with her, and she now has a sense of peace that she did not get to feel for over half a decade. In life, we benchmark our years with moments. When we reflect on our years, there are typically a couple of those moments so profound that those memories stay with us for a lifetime. Rarely are we fortunate enough to have two of those moments happen in one day, but for me, today is that day. Being here is a second of those moments. The
first of those occurred this morning where the for the first time in five years. My seven year old little girls. I didn't allow time for tears. um, got to wake up in her own bed, in her own room, in her mother's home. I made her breakfast, I got her ready for school. I packed her lunch and I hung a placard on my rear room gear for the first time that proudly stated, I am the mother of this child. I dropped her off at school and I told her I loved her. And if that doesn't speak to the generational impact that an organization like the Hope Shop makes, I don't
know what does. There are a lot of great organizations out there and they do amazing things, but I personally have rarely seen one that utterly changes the fabric of our community right in our homes and right in our own backyards until now. So in closing, I'd like to thank each and every one of you for that opportunity. I'd also like to thank each and every member of the Hope Shot organization. My name is Carrie, but thank you for restoring my faith. Thank you, Carrie.
Okay, I um I'm I missed the name. The first speaker was uh is Harvey Reinhart with Bes West Pasco Saratoma.
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