Page 6 - Palm City Spotlight - June '24

Page 6, Palm City Spotlight

Honoring

House Of Hope Takes Honors Each year House of Hope

For Innovative Ways To Care distributes about 1.3 million
pounds of food. Its efforts
For The Environment to use resources wisely
ultimately rescue 614,000
House of Hope, known throughout the community as an pounds of food annually
organization that cares deeply for people in need, has also from going into the landfill
been honored for the care it shows to the environment. because it’s considered “not
Keep Martin Beautiful awarded House of Hope the 2024 shelf-worthy” at local grocery
Community Impact Award at its Environmental Stewardship stores. House of Hope Thrift
Awards ceremony in May. Jill Marasa of Ashley Capital, a Shops recycle unusable
sponsor of the event and a nominee for its own environmental clothing, linens, cardboard
restoration efforts, called House of Hope “a model for and household items while
environmental stewardship through its comprehensive assisting families with the
approach to reducing waste and conserving resources.” basics of living.
At its Growing Hope
Farm, House of Hope uses The House of Hope team works together to make environmental stewardship an integral
environmentally-friendly part of all they do. These efforts resulted in House of Hope winning the 2024 Environmental
hydroponic farming Stewardship Award for Community Impact from Keep Martin Beautiful.
techniques and employs
closed-loop water systems. The fact that House of Hope has our impact on local landfills, to be imaginative in how we
a farm for growing fresh produce for its clients is in itself recycle and repurpose, and to conserve valuable resources.”
environmentally sound. Composting is an integral part of Every month House of Hope provides food, basic
its operations, generating farm feed for local farmers and needs, life skills, case management, financial assistance,
ranchers. Rainwater is captured for irrigation, and the water workforce development, housing assistance, nutrition
used to clean produce in the new packing house is in turn education and enrichment to more than 21,000 area residents
used to irrigate the farm’s grove of fruit trees. across Martin, St. Lucie and Okeechobee counties, with a
In addition, its Traveling Nutrition Education Garden and mission to empower people in need to overcome hunger
Nutrition Gardens in key areas of the community help teach and hardship.
people about growing food locally and the importance of “Our environmental efforts, like everything we do, are
The House of Hope Thrift Team created a pop-up boutique using fresh herbs, fruits and vegetables in their meal planning. directed at empowering people in need and improving
filled with used items for purchase by attendees at the “We made a commitment to ourselves that we would the overall health and financial stability of the greater
Environmental Stewardship Awards event. Lauren Povio, incorporate good environmental stewardship in all aspects community,” Ranieri said. “We’re proud and grateful for the
Donna Vestal, Pat Ferrara and Michele Trout curated the of our business,” House of Hope CEO Rob Ranieri said. staff, volunteers and donors who take our mission to heart
items that became treasures instead of trash for the landfill. “We challenge ourselves to find opportunities to minimize and create new and different ways to make a difference.”

The Rose Ball from page 1 at the age of 7, her family was able to experience the spiritual concerns by providing intensive pain and symptom
transformative impact of the Little Treasures Program and management along with counseling, guidance and education.
and want to ensure the program is able to continue to provide create many special memories. For more information visit www.TreasureHealth.org.
vital care to children and families in our community.” Teri Dolecki was the presenting sponsor for the event
Brownie and her family had the opportunity to witness the in memory of her mother, Ginny. Ginny was under the
compassionate and dedicated care administered by the Little loving care of Treasure Coast Hospice before she passed
Treasures Program when their daughter Kamden Rose was away in 2023. Many other sponsors joined in supporting
cared for as one of the first the event, including Evergreen Private, Martin Funeral
children in the program. Home Crematory, Closets by Design, Wilmington Trust and
Kamden Rose received Waterpointe Realty.
palliative care, which Treasure Coast Hospice’s Pediatric Care Program, Little
included various services Treasures, focuses on the unique needs of children, teens and
such as grief counseling, their families. The goal of this program is to improve the quality
social work, pediatric of life for children and teens with serious illness by supporting
program management and the entire family with palliative and hospice care. Surrounding
music therapy. Although families with individualized care and support, the Little
Kamden passed away Linda and Scott Hoffman Treasures Care Team addresses medical, psychosocial and
Susan King, Ewald Bender, Cheryl Mayes and Shannon Cooper

Peter Culley with Mary Feherback and Ted Brown of
Wilmington Trust David and Cheryl Sines, Doris and George Goll

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