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In Reply to: But what about all the big company donations? posted by No-name on July 27, 2002 at 13:23:14:
I'm not sure what the deal is with company donations. I looked at that list on NDN, which was there before I arrived, and hasn't changed since I've been there. I do know that there is major provisioning going on in the home, and it could be that the companies listed have donated food or other items. Again, just guessing.
I will tell you that if there is big money it isn't evident in the home. When I visited it was clean, but there wasn't new or expensive stuff around. There was one of those couches where you sit down and sink into a hole. It was August, and there was no air conditioning, except a tiny window unit that you might buy at Kmart. It didn't do any good, and everyone in the home tended to congregate around it.
I do know that he and his sons are active in a construction company. I know that Joanna has a job at an electronics place, I believe she does some kind of welding on medical supply equipment.
The home and the property are very large. It is a two story house with a lot of bedrooms, and there are trailers all over the property with people staying in those. Again, I have no idea what the local market it, or what it costs to rent a home like that.
Without that information, it would be difficult to know if $300-$400 per month is cheap or expensive for room and utilities.
From what I gather, Laurelhome went from a commune to a boarding home. In the proccess the people who live there experience more of what it is like to live in the regular world where you work for what you get.
I have a hard time figuring out how it would prepare these young people to go into the world if Barney just let them lay around the house didn't insist that they work or contribute.
