Our story
A stroke, an empty feed store and a whole county that showed up.
Our story
In 2006 Ramona's father, a dairyman named Ernesto, had a stroke at seventy-eight. He could walk with a cane and he could still argue, but he couldn't be alone on the farm all day, and the nearest day program was eighty miles away.
The old feed store on Belknap had been empty for six years. Ramona leased it, poured a new floor, kept the rafters and the loading dock, and opened in 2007 with her father and eight of his friends.
Churches sent volunteers, the high school ag shop built the first workbench, and Tarleton nursing students started doing clinicals here in 2010. They still do.
Fifty-some members come on a busy day. We added therapy in 2014 and the second van in 2018. Ernesto's straw hat still hangs by the coffee bar.
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