Parking with Dignity--project update
Up until a few weeks ago, soggy feet and safety hazards continued to be a threat to the effort to provide dignity to our clients. The parking lot's surface problems, inherited but invisible beneath the asphalt when PACS purchased the facility in 1998, were becoming a huge issue. The badly needed parking lot overhaul was finally made possible with the help of a grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, labor and equipment use donations by John Jones Construction, and the kind gifts of several individual donors. Thanks to them, we have drastically improved the dignity of our clients in the parking lot. Here is a quick photo recap of the process: A sinking area of the lot, previous to the resurface. Some of these mini-lakes were directly over parking spaces. Soggy feet were frequent occurrences among PACS clients during wet weather. The same puddle you see above, became a slippery hazard on extremely cold days. More clear evidence of the problems beneath the surfac