I began part two of my degree program after fifty years of getting my associates degree. I have instructed figure skating for twenty years, cleaned church buildings for eleven years, and worked in various retail establishments. The stores include a video store, a dollar store and even a movie theater. I taught recorder and flute and vocal music to home schoolers. At church my talents have included the joy of finding specials for bulk food storage, cooking Stone Soup luncheons, and researching family lines and skeletons in the genealogical world. I have helped people write resumes for jobs and collect visual materials for classrooms. I will use all these talents and training to help Veterans with PTSD. Our family relatives include all four of the Armed Services. My father was a Marine, my father-in-law was in the Navy. My foster Uncle was an Air Force Master Sargent, and I spent time on Westover Air Force Base. Respect and empathy for their service and devotion to our country has created a desire to give back to them. Since I cannot help all the people in the world, I will concentrate on those nearby. Making their lives a little better with free training in basic living skills and in an apprenticeship, the program may assist them to feel better about themselves and to become self-sufficient. We had a family dream of building the Rainbow House of Service. Our Motto is “See a Need, Fill the Need.” But in the middle of getting the house, my husband Michael passed, and I was riddled with identity theft. These incidents only give me a better understanding of the problems others go through and my desire to help grows. My current course load is two courses a term at Southern New Hampshire University. I just finished my first term with a 3.8 GPA. The remaining courses will fill my schedule with grant writing, accounting and business courses. These will help me secure funding so no veteran will need to pay for the training. The families will be welcome, and the youth will plant and care for a Primary Pumpkin Patch. It will teach gardening skills, sales and profits at harvest time. A financial expert will teach a short class to them and their families on income and expenses. This is an example of the twenty projects we have been prompted to offer. The friends and family nearby will assist in the instruction and fellowship to the families. Community leaders and retired professionals will assist in instruction and fellowship. The degree will give me my personal opportunity to work for BYU Pathways- to teach Institute religious class. It will also allow me to use my TESL/TEFL to teach English for those remote companies needing the degree qualification. This will create my savings base so all my expenses will be paid from the savings account and be saved for up to a minimum of twelve months ahead. I will teach by example and love.

My name is Laurie JCB Hendrix. I became a widow four years ago. My husband was kind and compassionate and we had a family motto- “See a Need, Fill the Need.” We did this most of the thirty-four years of our marriage from packing and moving a friend’s house to her new house on our anniversary; to paying for a man’s gas at the rest area just before getting our dinner; to using $200 to get fifteen shut-ins fruit baskets for Christmas. I returned to Southern New Hampshire University to finish the ten courses needed for my bachelor’s degree. My GPA is 3.8 after this term online. At Church, my librarian time was used in lesson research for class handouts and picture displays. As a food storage specialist, I assisted food pantry deliveries to shut ins and provided recipes and precooked meals from the produce. My friend and I created Stone Soup luncheons which served over 15000 meals in sixteen years. Genealogy research added friendships and links to them as distant cousins. Leadership positions helped me increase the empathy I have for others in various situations of need and success. Home schooling our youngest son with disabilities taught me patience with others who didn’t understand our “Why”. Setting up field trips and programs for others increased my personal learning as well. Museum guides were our teachers. As a family, we assisted the local Adams Free Library with the children’s programs, setting up the Christmas tree and a Kinex display, and even moving the books from the adult section to the new Children’s room. Through all these experiences I learned that everyone needs something from a simple hug, smile or a printed coloring page and crayons. I really needed to sit still and listen to the promptings and then act upon them. Sometimes it was as easy as asking, “Are you ok?” Can I help you with your packages? My plans include helping Veterans with PTSD and their families. The basics are to get help for the veteran to learn a new skill which can lead to a small business that can support his family. Just giving them the confidence that they are still important to others and not left behind. Apprenticeships in carpentry/ metalworks and with hands on restoration of furniture and small appliances will strengthen this. Additional skills can be for the spouse and children from cooking, sewing, music and even skating. For example, the young will have the Primary Pumpkin Patch. It will teach gardening, harvesting and selling extra pumpkins. The proceeds, after purchasing next year’s seeds, will be divided and a financial advisor will teach the basics of savings and spending to the children and their parents. Additional plans will be to teach AI within these trades mentioned. The business plans will be presented to a few corporate leaders to evaluate the plans, add suggestions and market solutions. I foresee the person who loves to grow lavender and makes herbal soaps get an offer of where she can market her products. A wilderness acreage will be used for foraging hikes, teaching fishing and hunting skills and how to cook the gathered items. A Schoolhouse Inn will be the lodging for the families as needed during the training. Funding will be from grants and other organizations that support the needs of veterans.

My family’s motto is “see a need, fill the need”. In 2021 we finally found a house to buy, but the buyers stopped the sale in May 2022, and Michael, my husband, passed June 2022 just before our 34th anniversary. He was my rock and my support through all my training and teaching in figure skating for 20 years, in Serve Safe, TESL/TEFL, and in researching Genealogical family lines. He supported homeschooling our son through High School and his Eagle with seven palms. He supported our activities and all my teaching assignments in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Our goal, and now my goal, and dream is to create the Rainbow House of Service. It will be a center for Veterans who suffer from PTSD, and their families who have suffered alongside. This will be done at a complex which will teach apprenticeship skills such as carpentry, metalworking- like blacksmithing and welding, restoring furniture, and cars and small appliances. Michael’s determination to help military was from our fathers who served in the Marines and the Navy. He had up to twenty insights of what to offer and where to teach them. Like the Primary Pumpkin Patch to teach young people basic finances by planting, caring for and harvesting pumpkins. They will get one free, then the rest will be sold for $1 each first to purchase new seeds for the next season. Volunteering financiers and families will be included. For everyone, there will be a garden to table cooking class including a stone soup weekly meal. This fellowship will add a support group for those needing a friend, both young and old. Michael taught skills by quiet example, one on one. His dad always was self-sufficient and taught us both how to have basic living skills and to have fun too. Music and sports and travel with family. As a wilderness acreage is obtained, field trips along nature paths, basic fishing and hunting skills will be offered. Certification course in Serve Safe, and the Hunter Safety course and certification will be offered. “You have to have friends over to eat and play.” Grilling was his specialty and he taught me to travel and be prepared for anything on the road. Our main goal is to teach a skill that the Veteran can use to feel good about and create a business opportunity to support the family with confidence. To provide the skills and leadership needed with volunteers assisting. I have my Associates in Selected Studies. I am completing the ten courses for my Bachelor of Arts in General Studies- Business Administration at Southern New Hampshire University. He would have supported me through this degree and this project of love also. I want to show each person that they have value and are special to their families as Michael taught me. All military personnel have given us a gift of their service to our country and I want to return that gift-dedicating all to Michael’s memory and his love for me. The collage is of our life together. A Christmas with his step children, Silly times shopping with Yoda Christmas hats, Walks on the beaches of New England, The Lego exhibit at the Big E, Playing Minigolf with Joshua, Joshua's Baptism, attending a friend's wedding with Laurie, trying helmets at the Higgins Armory, Joshua's Eagle Court of Honor, Race car driving with Joshua at the Great Escape, and Catching him driving with the tablet camera- and his glasses caught me too.

I worked in a Special Needs area in my old High School for two years. Little did I know that my youngest son would have dyslexia and a learning spectrum that would be low reading level with an extremely high hands-on learning level. We homeschooled him using unit studies and topics within a lot of trips in the Eastern United States. He loves fishing, and penguins and honors the military careers of both his grandfathers. My goal in completing my Bachelor of Arts with a concentration in Business Administration, is to create a non-profit organization of serving. This Rainbow House of Service will be concentrating on those with PTSD, mostly the Veterans and their families. My concentrations will be on mentoring and apprenticeships. Seeing the love of learning in my son, I want to share hands-on workshops that will teach the parents they can be the rock for their family and provide. I want to teach the younger children the financial practices by growing pumpkins and selling the extra harvest for future seeds and teaching them how to save their profits. The adults will learn repair work, restoration work and creative projects. This will include blacksmithing, welding, car and furniture restoration, and even basic cooking skills and sewing skills. Music instruction and basic sports including ice skating will be taught at the appropriate seasonal time. I want to use my talents in non-traditional schooling that will spark the participant into a love of learning with a mentor beside him or her. The friendships, like in military units, will last as each family visits and helps each other. There will be a Schoolhouse Inn, where the Veteran can earn a night by teaching a skill at the 16-acre wilderness area. Both will be staffed by Veterans and Retired people who love to teach others. I have a person willing to mentor young adults on how to clean rabbits or squirrels for meat in times of need. Another is a writer and with his wife wants to be near people and they are willing to oversee the Inn. As a writer, he can teach others how to write their stories as they remember them and to rewrite them in a kinder light, beginning the healing process of their PTSD. I have learned everyone has a PTSD special story that affects them. Children are vulnerable to their parents going down range without contact and it strains family life. I know from having children in the school system and in home school system, that everyone is unique and needs the love that someone can give. Each deserves an individual educational opportunity, in a way, their own IEP, no matter how they fit into the mold of the ideal student in the system. My House of Service will provide an opportunity for them. My associates degree covered my topics of Music, Mathematics, Accounting and History Anthropology. I am completing courses in finance and business administration for non-profit organizations, with grant writing to cover the costs for everyone to attend on a pay what you can or on total donations. Education for all should be available to all without worrying about costs.

I am planning on getting my bachelor’s degree with a major of Business Administration. As a family we had decided upon a house in Vermont and we each had impressions that we needed to do these service projects for the Lord in that area. That was in October 2021. In June 2022, Michael, my husband passed but he knew this was the house for us. The memories of his untimely passing and his service to others is always on my mind. I have pursued this family dream between having identity theft and stalled financial matters from that problem. When I was applying for a temporary job, I saw Southern New Hampshire University and applied and was accepted in 48 hours! And all my courses from my one year at Union College Schenectady NY and my associate’s degree from Berkshire Community College Pittsfield MA all transferred into my degree, including a weekend course at N Adams State College, in N Adams MA on the Introduction to Business Administration. I have always wanted to teach people skills and to help them, with other professionals, learn how to take these skills into a small business for those with PTSD. I would concentrate on Veterans and their families. I will use my research skills from genealogy to help them get their VA cards or the pensions for those without sufficient documentation. I want to understand the business side of non-profits so I can use my LLC and use the funding of others to support the expenses of training others. I have had business for years but not on the larger scale I desire to fulfill at our House of Service. I have taught Figure skating for 20 years as an independent contractor and Team coach and owner. I have critiqued restaurants and businesses for many more years. This house is the larger project I am impressed to do as a calling from the Lord. These two mentioned jobs were small and I did everything, I hope to employ about six people with an expertise that I lack in the fields for apprenticeship of carpentry, furniture restoration, and metalworking and blacksmithing. My successful life will be a house and a Schoolhouse Inn and wildlife acreage lot. The house will be the starting point but in the following years the Schoolhouse Inn will teach the skill of running Bed and Breakfast with a natural fishing area and a Christmas tree lot and a miniature orchard. The wildlife acreage will be for teaching a Vermont certified hunter safety course. Survival skill weekends will be run. The goal financially is to purchase the house with sufficient to begin an account with the next year’s expenses prepaid so all future income will fund the following year. I personally expect to run classes four times a week including Stone Soup Luncheons for cooking classes, sewing by hand for repairs and by machine and in the wintertime teach basic skating skills. The whole year will have recorder classes that lead to flute lessons. Other professionals will teach Blacksmithing, carpentry and metalworking. Gardening and homesteading practices will fill out the rest of my week. It will be a time of service and helping others with their needs. Those with PTSD will learn to rewrite their stories as I have had to do. The first project will be the youth’s Primary Pumpkin Patch, which will teach young people gardening and small finances. This house will be dedicated to the memories of Michael who truly believed I could do anything.

I am planning on getting my Bachelor degree with a major of Business Administration. As a family we had decided upon a house in Vermont and we each had impressions that we needed to do these service projects for the Lord and our Brothers and Sisters in that area. That was in October 2021. In June 2022, Michael, my husband passed but he knew this was the house for us. I have pursued this family dream between having identity theft and stalled financial matters from the identity theft. When I was applying for a temporary job, I saw Southern New Hampshire University and applied and was accepted in 48 hours! And all my courses from my one year at Union College Schenectady NY and my Associates degree from Berkshire Community College Pittsfield MA all transferred into my degree, including a weekend course at N Adams State College, in N Adams MA on the Introduction to Business Administration. I have always wanted to teach people skills and to help them, with other professionals, learn how to take these skills into a small business for those with PTSD. I would concentrate on Veterans and their families. I will use my research skills from genealogy to help them get their VA cards or the pensions for those without sufficient documentation. I teach how to link families together into trees and that we are all related as children of God. I want to understand the business side of non-profits so I can use my LLC and use the funding of others to support the expenses of training others. I have had a business for years but not in the larger scale I desire to fulfill at our House of Service. I have taught Figure skating for 20 years as an independent contractor and Team coach and owner. I have critiqued restaurants and businesses for many more years. This house is the larger project impressed to do as a calling from the Lord. These two mentioned jobs were small and I did everything, I hope to employ about six people with an expertise that I lack in the fields for apprenticeship of carpentry, furniture restoration, and metalworking and blacksmithing. My successful life will be a house and a Schoolhouse Inn and wildlife acreage lot. The house will be the starting point but the following years the Schoolhouse Inn will teach the skill of running a Bed and Breakfast with a natural fishing area and a Christmas tree lot and a miniature orchard. The wildlife acreage will be for teaching a Vermont certified hunter safety course. Survival skill weekends will be run. The goal financially is to purchase the house with sufficient to begin an account with the next year’s expenses prepaid so all future income will fund the following year. I personally expect to run classes four times a week including Stone Soup Luncheons for cooking classes, sewing by hand for repairs and by machine and in the wintertime teach basic skating skills. The whole year will have recorder classes that lead to flute lessons. Other professionals will teach Blacksmithing, carpentry and metalworking. Gardening and homesteading practices will fill out the rest of my week. It will be a time of service and helping others in their needs. Those with PTSD will learn to rewrite their stories as I have had to do. This house will be dedicated to the memories of Michael who truly believed I could do anything. The first project will be the youth’s Primary Pumpkin Patch, which will teach young people gardening and also small finances as they receive one pumpkin personally and all other pumpkins will be sold for a dollar each to fund future seeds.

I am a daughter of a Marine veteran. He instilled the love of his country and service. I married a Navy brat who was born on Camp LeJeune. Together we had decided upon a house in Vermont and we each had impressions that we needed to do these service projects for the Lord and our Brothers and Sisters in that area. That was in October 2021. In June 2022, Michael, my husband passed but he knew this was the house for us. I have pursued this family dream between having identity theft and stalled financial matters from the identity theft. My uncle suffered from an Agent Orange fire attack in Vietnam. We learned not to yell or to surprise him. He died in a house fire when he returned inside to hide under his bed. While seeking a temporary job, I saw Southern New Hampshire University, applied and was accepted in 48 hours! All my courses from my one year at Union College Schenectady NY, my associate’s degree from Berkshire Community College Pittsfield MA all transferred into my degree, including a weekend course at N Adams State College, in N Adams MA on the Introduction to Business Administration. I have always wanted to teach people skills and to help them, with other professionals, learn how to take these skills into a small business for those with PTSD, concentrating on Veterans and their families. I will use my research skills from genealogy to help them get their VA cards or the pensions for those without sufficient documentation. Using the non-profit business plan, I will use my LLC and funding to support the expenses of training others. I desire to fulfill this at our House of Service. I have taught Figure skating for 20 years as an independent contractor and Team coach and owner. I have critiqued restaurants and businesses. This house is the larger project that impressed us to do as the Lord’s calling. I hope to employ about six people with an expertise that I lack in the fields for apprenticeship of carpentry, furniture restoration, and metalworking and blacksmithing. My successful life will be a house and a Schoolhouse Inn and wildlife acreage lot. The house will be the starting point but in the following years the Schoolhouse Inn will teach the skill of running a Bed and Breakfast with a natural fishing area, a Christmas tree lot and a miniature orchard. The wildlife acreage will be for teaching a Vermont certified hunter safety course and Survival skill weekends. The financial goal is to purchase the house with sufficient to begin an account with the next year’s expenses prepaid so all future income will fund the following year. I personally expect to run classes four times a week including Stone Soup Luncheons for cooking classes, sewing by hand and by machine for repairs and in the wintertime teach basic skating skills. The whole year will have recorder classes that lead into flute and woodwind lessons. Other professionals will teach Blacksmithing, carpentry and metalworking. Gardening and homesteading practices will fill out the rest of my week. It will be a time of service and helping others with their needs. This house will be dedicated to the memories of Michael who truly believed I could do anything. To my dad, Walter, who said to do your homework and help others. The first project will be the youth Primary Pumpkin Patch, which will teach young people gardening and small finances as they receive one pumpkin personally and all pumpkin sales fund future needs.

I am a daughter of a Marine veteran. He instilled the love of his country and service. I married a Navy brat who was born on Camp LeJeune. Together we had decided upon a house in Vermont and we each had impressions that we needed to do these service projects for the Lord and our Brothers and Sisters in that area. That was in October 2021. In June 2022, Michael, my husband passed but he knew this was the house for us. I have pursued this family dream between having identity theft and stalled financial matters from the identity theft. When I was applying for a temporary job, I saw Southern New Hampshire University and applied and was accepted in 48 hours! And all my courses from my one year at Union College Schenectady NY and my Associates degree from Berkshire Community College Pittsfield MA all transferred into my degree, including a weekend course at N Adams State College, in N Adams MA on the Introduction to Business Administration. I have always wanted to teach people skills and to help them, with other professionals, learn how to take these skills into a small business for those with PTSD, concentrating on Veterans and their families. I will use my research skills from genealogy to help them get their VA cards or the pensions for those without sufficient documentation. I want to understand the business side of non-profits so I can use my LLC and use the funding of others to support the expenses of training others. I have had a business for years but not in the larger scale I desire to fulfill at our House of Service. I have taught Figure skating for 20 years as an independent contractor and Team coach and owner. I have critiqued restaurants and businesses for many more years. This house is the larger project impressed to do as a calling from the Lord. These two mentioned jobs were small and I did everything, I hope to employ about six people with an expertise that I lack in the fields for apprenticeship of carpentry, furniture restoration, and metalworking and blacksmithing. My successful life will be a house and a Schoolhouse Inn and wildlife acreage lot. The house will be the starting point but the following years the Schoolhouse Inn will teach the skill of running a Bed and Breakfast with a natural fishing area and a Christmas tree lot and a miniature orchard. The wildlife acreage will be for teaching a Vermont certified hunter safety course. Survival skill weekends will be run. The financial goal is to purchase the house with sufficient to begin an account with the next year’s expenses prepaid so all future income will fund the following year. I personally expect to run classes four times a week including Stone Soup Luncheons for cooking classes, sewing by hand and by machine for repairs and in the wintertime teach basic skating skills. The whole year will have recorder classes that lead into flute and woodwind lessons. Other professionals will teach Blacksmithing, carpentry and metalworking. Gardening and homesteading practices will fill out the rest of my week. It will be a time of service and helping others with their needs. This house will be dedicated to the memories of Michael who truly believed I could do anything. To my dad, Walter, who said to do your homework and help others. The first project will be the youth Primary Pumpkin Patch, which will teach young people gardening and small finances as they receive one pumpkin personally and all pumpkin sales fund future needs.

I am planning on getting my Bachelor degree with a major of Business Administration. As a family we had decided upon a house in Vermont and we each had impressions that we needed to do these service projects for the Lord and our Brothers and Sisters in that area. That was in October 2021. In June 2022, Michael, my husband passed but he knew this was the house for us. I have pursued this family dream between having identity theft and stalled financial matters from the identity theft. When I was applying for a temporary job, I saw Southern New Hampshire University and applied and was accepted in 48 hours! And all my courses from my one year at Union College Schenectady NY and my Associates degree from Berkshire Community College Pittsfield MA all transferred into my degree, including a weekend course at N Adams State College, in N Adams MA on the Introduction to Business Administration. I have always wanted to teach people skills and to help them, with other professionals, learn how to take these skills into a small business for those with PTSD. I would concentrate on Veterans and their families. I will use my research skills from genealogy to help them get their VA cards or the pensions for those without sufficient documentation. I want to understand the business side of non-profits so I can use my LLC and use the funding of others to support the expenses of training others. I have had a business for years but not in the larger scale I desire to fulfill at our House of Service. I have taught Figure skating for 20 years as an independent contractor and Team coach and owner. I have critiqued restaurants and businesses for many more years. This house is the larger project impressed to do as a calling from the Lord. These two mentioned jobs were small and I did everything, I hope to employ about six people with an expertise that I lack in the fields for apprenticeship of carpentry, furniture restoration, and metalworking and blacksmithing. My successful life will be a house and a Schoolhouse Inn and wildlife acreage lot. The house will be the starting point but the following years the Schoolhouse Inn will teach the skill of running a Bed and Breakfast with a natural fishing area and a Christmas tree lot and a miniature orchard. The wildlife acreage will be for teaching a Vermont certified hunter safety course. Survival skill weekends will be run. The goal financially is to purchase the house with sufficient to begin an account with the next year’s expenses prepaid so all future income will fund the following year. I personally expect to run classes four times a week including Stone Soup Luncheons for cooking classes, sewing by hand for repairs and by machine and in the wintertime teach basic skating skills. The whole year will have recorder classes that lead to flute lessons. Other professionals will teach Blacksmithing, carpentry and metalworking. Gardening and homesteading practices will fill out the rest of my week. It will be a time of service and helping others in their needs. Those with PTSD will learn to rewrite their stories as I have had to do. This house will be dedicated to the memories of Michael who truly believed I could do anything. The first project will be the youth’s Primary Pumpkin Patch, which will teach young people gardening and also small finances as they receive one pumpkin personally and all other pumpkins will be sold for a dollar each to fund future seeds.

I am uniquely deserving this award. I was a single parent of two when my husband left me with our two children under the age of three. Five years later I married a wonderful man for thirty-four years. Three and a half years ago he passed from blood clots leaving me again a single parent of our learning-disabled son. I returned to complete my bachelor’s degree after many jobs needed the degree and not a certificate or the associate degree. Within forty-eight hours, I found a place, applied and was accepted. My transfer credits were processed, and all my previous courses were placed into a degree program at Southern New Hampshire University. I began two courses on March 2, 2026. As I review the requirements for my degree, I should be able to complete my studies early in 2027. I started in Music Mathematics at Union College, Schenectady, New York, transferred to Berkshire Community College in Massachusetts and received my associate degree with additional studies in accounting, and History/Anthropology. I took a weekend summer course in Introduction to Business Administration at North Adams State College. All these were during my younger years and now I need to support myself and my son after the death of his father. We had a dream house picked out that we were going to move to in Vermont. It was to be a place to serve Veterans with PTSD. Teaching their family and the Veterans skills for basic living skills like sewing, cooking, gardening provides for their basic needs. Apprenticeships would be available for computer skills, metalworks including welding and blacksmithing, carpentry and auto repair. Then alone, without support, I became a victim of identity theft a year ago. No one told me this was going to be easy! But those I trusted could have been honest in our transactions. My son and I still have the dream, and we know the Lord will provide a way. We also must do our part. My part is to get my degree to be qualified for an online teaching job within BYU- Pathways. I have also qualified to teach English as a second or foreign language with a certification A rating. I am currently a Serve-safe and Allergen certified food handler. By being a retired figure skating instructor for twenty years, I have the ease of teaching many topics within Sunday School and Genealogy. I have instructed Scouting merit badge classes and home school activities. I will use my remaining courses to learn how to write grants to fund the programs I will run and assist others in finding scholarships for their goals of higher education. My next goal is to see which master’s Business Administration program would be beneficial to my goals of a Service Complex. A wilderness survival program that the Veterans can teach to offset the costs of residency at the Schoolhouse Inn while they are learning their new skills with their families nearby. This will give a few retirees a job as instructors, giving them purpose after retirement. I want to help all ages of the Veterans’ families with my future project.

I am a second generation Polish Austrian American. My father's parents came from Krakow, Poland-Austria and were born in 1895, came to the United States via Ellis Island and were married in St Stanislaus Kostka Church in Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts in 1913. They had about eight children, two unnamed females, and my father was the next to the youngest child. I think of my Grandmother Jozepha Noga/Dydowicz Biskup. She worked in the Spinning Mill and had Tuberculous but loved her children. Marjan Biskup worked nearby but had strong feelings to protect his family and their name. I wrote a story about her funeral and pictured him in the choir loft at St Stanislaus Kostka as the Priest had to ask for help to raise the five children from ages 15 to 6. Ladislaus Biskup was my dad. All his immediate family has now passed. This was seen by my father's last memories of her. She gave him $2. for donuts. Sent him to the store and as he returned, he saw her in the car leaving for Northampton Hospital where she passed in January 1929. He cried and sat on the curb and ate all twelve donuts. Each Sunday after church he would pick up a dozen donuts for us, and we would eat them on the way home. I never realized it was his memory of her! I love family and try to search for the "Old Grandmother" who sent him a letter from the old country. His sister, Stephanie Biskup Morin read the Polish out loud then folded the letter into the envelope and threw it into the fire saying," There. They can't find us now." That was the only link to relatives in Europe. My father joined the Marines right after changing his name to Walter F Bishop. I try to keep what I think were memories alive by sharing recipes and meals with others. I even tried to learn how to make pierogies from my aunt, but she said the cabbage filling recipe was only to be learned in the kitchen not from a recipe book. She passed and I had to purchase the Church recipe book. I love Kapusta made from scratch at home. Kielbasa from Chicopee is the best and I teach my youngest son these recipes to keep the memories alive. Cooking has become my way of doing service. I ran a Stone Soup luncheon with a friend for our Church members, for about 16 years. Just using the unwanted garden surplus and reusing leftover hams or turkeys from feasts. Cooking and sharing meals are my way to serve others in need. As a widow now, I do what I can when surplus comes my way until I can complete my last year of my bachelor's degree. I am self employed as a restaurant critique and no letter from my employer will be enclosed because I am my employer. I also do genealogical research for others seeking their family lines. I will enclose my resume where you will see the research I have done for others and my focus on my heritage. My attendance at Southern New Hampshire University starting in the March 3rd term has not been added, I plan to graduate with my Bachelors of Arts in March of 2027.

As a Referee at Ice Skating Institute Competitions in the New England District One, I had the opportunity to see skaters at many different events. I loved the Pairs and the Precision Team competitions and their interaction as one unit on the ice. If I had to choose just one special time, it was a Couples Dance event and the duo came right over to the Judges area, within the hockey team box area of the rink. The girl was spun around by her partner, and she snowplow stopped right at our box and threw a kiss to the only male judge sitting beside me! He was smiling, not realizing this was a planned move by the skaters. The boy came over right in time with the music and pulled the girl away as if he was a jealous lover. The choreography was great! To referee and judge the ISI Worlds, was unique due to the variety of languages and the time zones of each participant we viewed. Most spoke English, but it also encouraged me to return to my French studies and add new languages to my knowledge. As a Gold level rated ISI Judge/referee, I was able to see a lot of great skaters before 1996 when I retired. I also used my knowledge to judge and referee within the American Turners Gymnastics Competitions. As with skating, precision events were my favorite since they tell a story themed with the appropriate music. I tried to see the quality of their moves, diminishing from their errors. It was a tally of positive versus negative movements and the highest total won the competition. As a referee, I learned to be impartial to the actual person and those within each event. This helped me as a leader and a teacher of both sports. It taught me the uniqueness of each person, their talents and their weaknesses. Accentuating the strong points and developing the weak points was the key. It worked in their routines and in their lives outside the sport. For my own life it added to the knowledge that I had learned in my religion. You can use your agency for good or evil thoughts, or positive or negative words personally, but you cannot change another person to do or say something they do not want. Their agency is theirs not yours. Their opinion is their own and to use. By understanding this small thing, it is easier to take criticism, praise, and be kinder to others who disagree with your point of view. Their agency is a freedom that should be respected and accepted. The diversity is infinite and wonderful!

My journey has been one which has respected the military values instilled upon me by my father, a Marine, and many other relatives who served. He taught me to serve at home, at church, and then community. He believed in education even though he only completed eighth grade and went to work to support himself as an orphan. He dreamed what it was like to have a dad in his life and that is how he was a dad to me. He gave up his bowling leagues to allow me to figure skate. I knew of his sacrifice, and it taught me to give back 150% of everything I did. This was seen when I conducted a musical number for High School Senior Conductors. This one performance taught me to give more as I tried to pursue Music at Union College. This training allowed me to conduct in church for Sacrament meetings and auxiliary meetings. It also allowed me to cut music for my skaters competing in ISI District One Competitions in New England. Then this journey led me to judge not only ISI competitions as a Gold level Judge and Referee. I then pursued my education to become a Registered Free Style, Certified Dance and Master Group Instructor from the Professional Skaters Guild. Skating at Union College started my education in Music/ Mathematics but I ran out of funding and transferred to Berkshire Community College where I did almost every Math course and my work study was for the Math Department. I added Accounting and History/Anthropology to my interests which added to my historical interests in military history and art and foods in cultures. My interest in foods helped create a Stone Soup Luncheon at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for singles of all ages and those working at the Family History Center. As a food storage and an Emergency Preparedness specialist, I was able to teach how to use food from gardens and leftovers from holiday meals for new creations. Our favorites were Lasagna days when the large oven was filled with regular meat, seafood alfredo, BBQ chicken or pork lasagnas. We even tried Matzo or thin sliced zucchini as noodles. I trained and received my Serve-safe and Allergen certification to add to my personal knowledge for the community safety of the food. Each week for about 16 years we made meals, fed about twenty at the table and froze meals for compassionate service needs around Southern Vermont. Someone figured it was nearly 10,000 meals donated. At this point I lead field trips and recorder/flute classes for home schooled youth. Around our family motto of “See a Need, Fill the Need”, we found a house in Vermont where we felt we could do a lot of service. My family felt impressed to pursue twenty or so service projects. These would assist the Veterans and their families with PTSD. I also have issues and by serving I can push them back. Three and a half years ago, Michael passed while we were working to secure the house. Identity theft arose for me a year ago and I am determined to complete our family dream of the Rainbow House of Service. This is why I am finishing my degree, starting with my 81 credits. I will major in Business- Non-profit administration. The grant writing to allow those who need help to receive free instruction in future business fields. This scholarship will jump start my education to my masters and my organization.

I am a widow of three and a half years, and I take care of a learning-disabled adult son. During these three and a half years of family change and role adjustments, we have tried to secure jobs and most of my applications failed due to not having a bachelor’s degree. I have an Associates and certifications in Serve-safe and Allergens and Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language. During these job search times, I had the spiritual promptings to finish out the degree with the 81 credits I had earned in just over three years before 1990. With my son routing me on, I realized that Michael, my eternal husband of over thirty-five years, really had the courage to support me. He showed us in his quiet way that he had trained and understood over seventy-five computer languages, which he used for work and to serve sporting organizations within New England. The District One ISI championships and the American Turners Gymnastics competitions were donated programs he wrote and serviced during the years I taught and judged both sports. He supported my children’s sports and shared his love of traveling to historical sites in the Eastern United States. He supported my studies during the shutdown and a weekend course I took in Business Administration. His resume listed the computer languages learned, and he always assisted clients and coworkers with free assistance. As a family goal, we used our motto of “See a Need, Fill the Need”, to locate a house that would serve as our family home, but also as a place to serve and teach others. At this time with my degree and its non-profit Business major, we plan to continue to pursue our Rainbow House of Service to assist Veterans with PTSD and to teach apprenticeship skills that can be used to begin a skill-based job for each participant. There are just over twenty projects that we had decided we could pursue for others at the house and surrounding establishments. With both of our parents as Veterans, and other relatives in the Services, we had chosen to help this group and their families. Their courage in their lives also strengthened my courage to return. And I am scared after being out of the educational system! Yet I am excited to finally have a degree that I started in 1975. My majors were in Music Mathematics Accounting and History Anthropology, and I will be in the Bachelor of Arts degree with a new major concentration in Nonprofit Business Administration. My basic living skills in sewing, cooking, and my years of figure skating and music instruction and maintenance will be joined with my son’s blacksmithing, welding and auto repair skills. Each of these steps are ones of great courage as I have PTSD issues myself. With just a handful of friends and family, I take this journey on my own. The beliefs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints include educating oneself out of the best books. What better way to do this, but to complete my incomplete educational goals. Restarting my Stone Soup Luncheons will increase friendship and new recipes to share. I hope to learn new skills for grant writing and to increase the talents I possess as I share them with others. Being back in school will open doors of learning and new associates in the fields of my studies and my business pursuits.

Michael Anthony Hendrix has been my husband for over 34 years, who supported me through everything. He taught me it didn’t matter that I was abused after high school, but that I was important and a leader with a lot of talents and gifts to share with others. He passed June 9, 2022, and our son and I have had a rough time. His last words to us were “I love you both, and I didn’t want you to go through this, but you can do hard things and you will succeed.” In just over forty-four months, we have experienced identity theft and investment problems and my family has disowned me, but we persevere knowing that Michael knew we could get through this. I forgot about Michael’s help and support that he had given me when I had bad PTSD incidents. Yet he kept supporting me as I taught figure skating as an owner and coach for twenty years until our son needed me at home. Then I started creating church luncheons based upon the book Stone Soup. The Stone Soup luncheons took frozen holiday leftovers and created soups like Zucchini Garden Soups, or Turkey Casseroles, or BBQ Chicken lasagnas. It wasn’t just cooking for 10 – 25 people weekly, but for more. All these meals were food donations with no money from us. Later, someone figured out in over 15 years about 16,000 meals were served, sent home, or frozen for emergency service meals for families. Michael gave me the confidence that I could help anyone in need. That became our family motto of “See a need, Fill the need.” We didn’t wait to get permission, we just went to the person, talked as friends, and found their needs and filled it. My favorite time was our 20th anniversary; Joshua was away at a Boy Scout day camp. Michael and I moved my homeschooling friend’s apartment to her new house across town. At lunch she asked why we had the time and got upset that it was our wedding anniversary! We replied, pay it forward. Pondering back, nothing we do in life is without some type of preparation, or homework. Michael was always allowing me time to learn. What started as my training to increase my certifications in figure skating instruction and judging, and even in food Serve-safe certifications. During COVID, I sat for hours taking the requirements to certify as a Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language (TESL/TEFL) instructor. I even went back to school for a summer weekend course in Introduction to Business Administration. So, even though my Husband is not here beside me, he is watching over me as I begin to complete my Bachelor’s degree and his support will help me to purchase our Rainbow House of Service and start all the promised projects for people with PTSD, especially Veterans and their families. My success will be to see these people gain a passion for a skill that will be a future business they love doing, like furniture repair or a gardening specialty. I hope to be their mentor as they present plans to start their businesses from their educational journeys as this great man mentored me as my eternal husband and friend.

I have two people who supported me on my educational journey. First was my Father, Walter Bishop. He always believed in education even though he only finished the eighth grade before having to go to work. He was an orphan at the age of eight, but he taught my husband, Michael, “I didn’t have a father growing up, so I dreamed what a father would be like and that is how I acted.” Michael is my second person who supported me. He taught me it didn’t matter that I was abused after high school, but that I was important and a leader with a lot of talents and gifts to share with others. He passed June 2022, and our son has had a rough time. His last words to us were “I love you both, and I didn’t want you to go through this, but you can do hard things and you will succeed.” I forgot with Michael’s help and support that I had bad PTSD incidents, but he kept supporting me as I taught figure skating as an owner and coach for twenty years until our son needed me at home. Then I started creating luncheons based upon the book Stone Soup. The Stone Soup luncheons took frozen holiday leftovers and created soups like Zucchini Garden Soups, or Turkey Casseroles, or BBQ Chicken lasagnas. All these meals were donations with no money from us, but someone figured out in over 15 years about 16,000 meals were served, sent home, or frozen for emergency service meals. Michael and Walter gave me the confidence that I could help anyone in need. That became our family motto of “See a need, Fill the need.” We didn’t wait to get permission, we just went to the person and talked as friends and found their needs and filled it. My favorite time was our 20th anniversary, Joshua was away at a Boy Scout day camp and Michael and I moved my homeschooling friend’s apartment to her new house across town. At lunch she asked why we had the time and got upset that it was our wedding anniversary, we replied, pay it forward. Walter loved my son’s attempts to read and had an expression- “Adodooo, DO your homework” even before he was in kindergarten! Pondering back, nothing we do in life is without some type of preparation, or homework. Michael was always allowing me to increase my certifications in figure skating instruction and judging, and even in food Serve-safe certifications. During COVID, I sat for hours taking the requirements to certify as a Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language (TESL/TEFL) instructor. I even went back to school for a summer weekend course in Introduction to Business Administration. So, even though my Dad and Husband are not here beside me, they are watching over me as I begin to complete my Bachelor’s degree and their support will help me to purchase our Rainbow House of Service and start all the promised projects for people with PTSD, especially Veterans and their families. My success will be to see these people gain a passion for a skill that will be a future business they love doing, like furniture repair or a gardening specialty. I hope to be their mentor as they present plans to start their businesses from their educational journeys as these two great men mentored me.

I always wanted to know more about the Wicked Witch of the West, and Wicked really does that for me. But what stands out to me is the music. The Wicked lyrics to the song “For Good” had struck my heart after my husband Michael passed in June of 2022. Within these months apart, I HAVE been the ship blown from its mooring, trying to find out who I am without him by my side. He was my anchor from my previous abusive life to a respected wife and mother of his children and a leader among many. I have been blocked and forgotten by my family and most associates, with only a handful trying to tell me what to do after I have made mistakes by myself. Yes, “So much of me is made of what I learned from you” in 34 years of marriage…and He will “be with me Like a Handprint on my heart” These lyrics are my feelings each day- one of loss of my friendship and learning partner, and one of joy, that he will always be a part of me. And Yes, I CAN say I AM better for having my husband eternally in my life and I HAVE been better because of him. He has let me shine as I taught figure skating, assisted him while he was manager of the local fourplex movie theater. He allowed me to lead as I created Stone Soup luncheons with a friend to serve leftovers in new soups and casseroles and desserts to single Adults from church. We used the garden excesses like zucchini and tomatoes for more recipes than I can count. Yes, even Tomato Ice Cream and BBQ chicken lasagna. “He believed in me.” He knew. His last words to my son and I were that I “could do hard things and I will succeed.” It has been a huge struggle as I have been through identity theft problems, but after 44 months, I am still here. I still am succeeding one step at a time. Taking this step to finish my degree has been put off for a long time and it is a struggle to return. But “because I knew you, I have changed for the good.” And I can do this bettering myself and completing this degree and creating a House of Service doing all the projects that we believed we could do for others.

Sustainability has always been a part of my life as I learned how to recycle and compost most of my purchases and their packaging. I learned in my earlier years how to take broken furniture for sides of a compost bin and learned how to pizza garden. Why is this important? We live in a throw-away society and it is just a mindset that can be easily changed. I want to teach that shirts can be reused for quilts, smaller outfits for young children, or even coats of many colors. We can sustain our gardens by seed collection and reusing. Like that story of the one apple seed created how many apples upon the living tree. Each piece of my world has purpose and is reusable to create an environmental impact. The dark plastic bags from the stores have been used to heat passively with the sunshine. The water bottle inside an opened chip bag has heated water at a baseball game for an instant macaroni and cheese meal. The earth has all we need to create and grow; as such we need to use it wisely. This is incorporated in my business goals of teaching how to reuse and to remake items. As I create my Rainbow House of Service, it will teach basic living skills to those with PTSD including Veterans. There will be a training center with apprenticeships under mentors in the fields of furniture restoration, carpentry, metalworking and blacksmithing/welding. Each apprenticeship will include creating a specialized product to sell and to create a business plan to present to corporate and governmental agencies for funding and future cooperatives. There will be business leaders to teach beginning business and the needed tools to begin. I don’t think about sustainability in my life anymore, but my thoughts go to how can I reuse this again. Where can this item be used for someone else? It isn’t just the cereal boxes covered to hold papers or magazines, or small toys or desk items anymore. It is a delivery box came in, how much can I reuse? The cardboard for the walks in the gardens to keep the weeds down, the packing material reused to send another item to a friend and the plastic containers for pots or whatever the imagination creates. There will be an area to learn how to garden with composting and worms with bins and berms created. A year round greenhouse will be repurposed from a car with a fish pool inside. The car’s engine will be used to teach mechanics and to power tools and heat areas. Plastics will be used to create energy and the byproducts cut into pebbles for stepping stones. Sustainability is not about shutting off lights, but it encompasses all aspects of our life. I will be sharing this through cooking leftovers into new foods in Stone Soup luncheons and cooking lessons. Sewing foster care bags from shirt strips and old shoelaces for their personal items when they are moved from house to house. All aspects of living will be taught as part of the House of Service. This is the Lord’s world and we have the responsibility to care for it and the God given talents we possess and to share them with others daily. This is why sustainability is always a priority to my future non-profit business and completing my degree.

I coached Figure skating professionally for twenty years with my own Ice Skating Institute Team and retired when my son turned four. After my husband found our dream home, we had plans for a small rink outside that would be used to teach basic skills to those who desire to just have fun on skates. I desire to make a difference for the general skater, with hopes of learning the Olympic skills from the start. A solid Professional Skater’s Guild background and previous certifications will give me the strong knowledge to give a skater the basics and to enjoy their time on the ice. I was master rated in group instruction, certified dance and registered free style instruction. I was a gold rated ISI District 1 judge and referee and I want to give back to the sport. I enjoyed teaching the older ladies who just wanted to practice school figures to lose weight, or the young families who just want to skate and stop and maybe turn without falling. Those skaters, who want to clean up their turns or crossovers or basic spins or single jumps, are the ones I want to help on my own private rink surface. I found that working with gymnasts within the American Turners taught me to love children and their desire to perform and to just be great at the level they were working on. I was also a judge for their competitions. While watching Moo Duk Kwan Tae Kwon Do taught me movements of balance to be used throughout other sports and the respect one has to have for the power a sport gives to our individual beings. Gymnastics and Tae Kwon Do have given my pieces of movements to use in choreography for competition programs. The respect for oneself and others is another reason why sports are important to each person who wants physical activity in their lives. You don’t need to be the next super star, but you do need to build the confidence AS a Super Star. That talent is what I would like to give back to the amateur sporting world. I have seen my students pursue jobs as professionals in the skating clubs that I originally taught at and my friends had these pros as their teachers. It is nice to see that my love of learning methods were used by them as they graduated from high school and had a career to work in. The love of teaching is one of service to your students as a mentor but also as a friend in a field you both enjoy.

During my years in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I was given a calling as Emergency Preparedness and Food Storage Specialist. I saw that our small unit represented the general public in the way they ate. With a knowledgeable older cook, we started Stone Soup, just like the book I had heard read by Captain Kangaroo. At first it was using the leftovers from turkey or ham dinners into soups and casseroles, but it became a weekly gathering of singles and their friends in fellowship. The biggest thing was my growing knowledge that in general, the generation from 20 to 50 year olds cook about 75% from a box or can and not from scratch. This is also been called farm to table cooking. I met people with allergies who wouldn’t lose weight, but had stomach surgery, those who ate for anxiety comfort, and I knew it was a problem. I also saw a ton of wasted foods- A Turkey with only the one breast meat eaten ready for the trash… NO! I would cry out, “There’s a lot of meals left on that bird! Let me take it home.” I received my Serve Safe and Allergens Certifications, and started to make lists of no wheat, no cabbage family vegetables, or night shade vegetables. We cooked for up to 21 people, who became our friends and we all learned about food together. We made recipes for younger parents who didn’t know how to use a bag of potatoes or carrots. Simple 1-2-3 soups were taught- 1 pasta, 2 meat, 3 vegetable soups with all bite sized pieces cooked in water or broth for a delicious soup. We experimented with a variety of lasagnas- regular meat and cheese, seafood Alfredo, BBQ Chicken or Pork, and even Matzo cracker or sliced zucchini as noodles. The goal was fellowship while creating recipes easy enough for a single person to make a batch in the afternoon. I followed the counsel of my father on 911, ”we can’t all run down to help them there, but you start with your family, community, then county then you can go down to help them.:” So each opportunity I had before 2020, we cooked and served a lot of meals. One leader figured in six years we created and gave away over 16,000 meals fresh at the luncheon and to take home or froze for emergency meals for the compassionate service representatives. Today, I am returning to receive my degree in non-profit business administration so I can start up a House of Service so I can teach again Stone Soup Cooking and other basic life skills and add a few additional professionals to help teach skills under apprenticeships in furniture restoration, auto repair, carpentry, metalworking and blacksmithing. These would be the beginnings for Veterans and PTSD survivors to start small cottage businesses and support themselves and their families. I know which location, and the curriculum, and the business knowledge I receive from scholars and professionals will be used to create this self-sustaining center of learning. Each person adds to my knowledge of how to help within this House of the Lord to do service for everyone. I have found a leader who serves leads by doing things side by side, like teaching someone to fish instead of handing out a meal. And usually I find I learn more from them as I lead the group! “Paying it Forward” was always my husband’s way, including when we moved a family on our anniversary. Our family motto is “See a need, fill the need.”

During my years in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I was given a calling as Emergency Preparedness and Food Storage Specialist. I saw that our small unit represented the general public in the way they ate. With a knowledgeable older cook, we started Stone Soup, just like the book I had heard read by Captain Kangaroo. At first it was using the leftovers from turkey or ham dinners into soups and casseroles, but it became a weekly gathering of singles and their friends in fellowship. The biggest thing was my growing knowledge that in general, the generation from 20 to 50 year olds cook about 75% from a box or can and not from scratch. This is also been called farm to table cooking. I met people with allergies who wouldn’t lose weight, but had stomach surgery, those who ate for anxiety comfort, and I knew it was a problem. I also saw a ton of wasted foods- A Turkey with only the one breast meat eaten ready for the trash… NO! I would cry out, “There’s a lot of meals left on that bird! Let me take it home.” I received my Serve Safe and Allergens Certifications, and started to make lists of no wheat, no cabbage family vegetables, or night shade vegetables. We cooked for up to 21 people, who became our friends and we all learned about food together. We made recipes for younger parents who didn’t know how to use a bag of potatoes or carrots. Simple 1-2-3 soups were taught- 1 pasta, 2 meat, 3 vegetable soups with all bite sized pieces cooked in water or broth for a delicious soup. We experimented with a variety of lasagnas- regular meat and cheese, seafood Alfredo, BBQ Chicken or Pork, and even Matzo cracker or sliced zucchini as noodles. The goal was fellowship while creating recipes easy enough for a single person to make a batch in the afternoon. I followed the counsel of my father on 911, ”we can’t all run down to help them there, but you start with your family, community, then county then you can go down to help them.:” So each opportunity I had before 2020, we cooked and served a lot of meals. One leader figured in six years we created and gave away over 16,000 meals fresh at the luncheon and to take home or froze for emergency meals for the compassionate service representatives. Today, I am returning to receive my degree in non-profit business administration so I can start up a House of Service so I can teach again Stone Soup Cooking and other basic life skills and add a few additional professionals to help teach skills under apprenticeships in furniture restoration, auto repair, carpentry, metalworking and blacksmithing. These would be the beginnings for Veterans and PTSD survivors to start small cottage businesses and support themselves and their families. I know which location, and the curriculum, and the business knowledge I receive from scholars and professionals will be used to create this self-sustaining center of learning. Each person adds to my knowledge of how to help within this House of the Lord to do service for all my brothers and sisters in this needed social area. Laurie Hendrix 106 Fisk Road Adams MA 01220

I am planning on getting my Bachelor degree with a major of Business Administration – Non- profit Administration. As a family we had decided upon a house in Vermont and we each had impressions that we needed to do these service projects for the Lord and our Brothers and Sisters in that area. That was in October 2021. In June 2022, Michael, my husband passed but he knew this was the house for us. I have pursued this family dream between having identity theft and stalled financial matters from the identity theft. When I was applying for a temporary job, I saw Southern New Hampshire University and applied and was accepted in 48 hours! And all my courses from my one year at Union College Schenectady NY and my Associates degree from Berkshire Community College Pittsfield MA all transferred into my degree, including a weekend course at N Adams State College, in N Adams MA on the Introduction to Business Administration. I have always wanted to teach people skills and to help them, with other professionals, learn how to take these skills into a small business for those with PTSD. I would concentrate on Veterans and their families. I will use my research skills from genealogy to help them get their VA cards or the pensions for those without sufficient documentation. I want to understand the business side of non-profits so I can use my LLC and use the funding of others to support the expenses of training others. I have had a business for years but not in the larger scale I desire to fulfill at our House of Service. I have taught Figure Skating for 20 years as an independent contractor and Team coach and owner. I have critiqued restaurants and businesses for many more years. This house is the larger project impressed to do as a calling from the Lord. These two mentioned jobs were small and I did everything, I hope to employ about six people with an expertise that I lack in the fields for apprenticeship of carpentry, furniture restoration, and metalworking and blacksmithing. My successful life will be a house and a Schoolhouse Inn and wildlife acreage lot. The house will be the starting point but the following years the Schoolhouse Inn will teach the skill of running a Bed and Breakfast with a natural fishing area and a Christmas tree lot and a miniature orchard. The wildlife acreage will be for teaching a Vermont certified hunter safety course. Survival skill weekends will be run. The goal financially is to purchase the house with sufficient to begin an account with the next year’s expenses prepaid so all future income will fund the following year. I personally expect to run classes four times a week including Stone Soup Luncheons for cooking classes, sewing by hand for repairs and by machine and in the wintertime teach basic skating skills. The whole year will have recorder classes that lead to flute lessons. Other professionals will teach Blacksmithing, carpentry and metalworking. Gardening and homesteading practices will fill out the rest of my week. It will be a time of service and helping others in their needs. Those with PTSD will learn to rewrite their stories as I have had to do. The first project will be the youth’s Primary Pumpkin Patch, which will teach young people gardening and also small finances as they receive one pumpkin personally and all other pumpkins will be sold for a dollar each to fund future seeds.This house will be dedicated to the memories of Michael who truly believed I could do anything.