Dec. 2018/Jan. 2019 Volume 6 • Issue 11
Nonprofit to build group homes for disabled adults BY ARIELLE DREHER for Senior Times
New $3.1M Goodwill coming to Kennewick
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Kennewick hardware store scales back
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A nonprofit’s new Kennewick development aims to offer more housing options for developmentally disabled adults in the TriCity area. The 1.7-acre dirt and asphalt lot with a community garden in the corner is the future home of Carmina’s Place, a cluster of five community group homes for adults living Glenda Chapman, 85, from right, Helen Dorrego, 85, Carol Gosseen, 84, with disabilities that Modern Living Services and Patsy Shelton, 79, assemble 700 copies of the Franklin County Historical Society’s newsletter, the Franklin Express. The women attended plans to build over the next several years. It’s a couple of blocks away from Pasco High School in the ’50s. Kamiakin High School at 526 N. Edison St. The nonprofit has been working to provide independent homes for adults living with disabilities in the community for almost a decade. Carmina’s Place is named after the daugh- BY KRISTINA LORD more than 1,600 nationwide built by ter of one of Modern Living Services’ found- editor@tcjournal.biz philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. ers, Elena Brown. The Browns were deeply “It was quiet and peaceful. I came As the seven Pasco women sat around here a lot,” she said. involved and transformational in forming the nonprofit, and their daughter, Carmina, a table in the basement of the Franklin The gray-haired friends spend hours County Museum on a recent morning, each month assembling, folding, stamphad a developmental disability. In December 2015, Doug Brown killed Waleta Michael pointed out that a few of ing and labeling about 500 copies of the himself and his wife and daughter in a mur- them have been hanging out there for Franklin Express, the newsletter for the der-suicide. Their deaths shook the commu- decades. Franklin County Historical Society. At “We’ve been coming to the library 531 members strong, the society’s nity, but, through this new project, their since the 1950s. It was the only thing to November issue reminded members to influence lives on through the nonprofit. The Browns had bought the Edison Street do. This used to be a Carnegie library,” renew their membership. It also sought property and intended to build an adult fam- said Michael, 84, a Pasco High School out prospective members. ily home there. The Brown family’s heirs Class of 1952 graduate. The library on uVOLUNTEERS, Page 2 have donated the property to Modern Living Fourth Avenue, built in 1910, was one of Services to continue that legacy. Housing for adults with disabilities is hard to come by in the Tri-City area, according to the nonprofit. Modern Living Services opened Kennewick Perry Suites in 2014 with a fedBY JESSICA HOEFER got to meet eral Housing and Urban Development pro- for Senior Times amazing people,” gram to help pay for it. That HUD program said Manley, who no longer exists, forcing the nonprofit’s leadAfter almost 50 years in the same scaled back to two ers to look elsewhere for financing Carmina’s location, Pasco Vision Clinic is moving to days a week over Place. a building with better visibility. the last year. uCARMINA’S, Page 6 The business will remain in Pasco but “Retirement is a will transition to 2715 W. Court St. little different to around the first of the year, once the Dr. Cory Manley wrap your mind inside of a former furniture store is around, but doing remodeled. some volunteer work will help fill that Dr. Cory Manley is excited for the void a bit.” change. But he won’t use the new His last day is Dec. 18. An open house equipment or be there to show patients for Manley is from 3 to 6 p.m. Thursday, around the new clinic. Dec. 6. Manley, 57, who has been with Pasco Manley has plans for philanthropic Vision Clinic since 1989, has been vision care work with one of his former phasing out of the business for the past colleagues, Dr. Gerald Wodtli, who retired three years, and this December he’ll see several years after Manley joined the local patients for the last time. business. “I’ve had a fantastic, amazing career. I uMANLEY, Page 10
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