Re: [papercreters] Re: Papercrete Nirvana

Evelyn, we all experience what you've related from time to time.  No harm, no foul. It's "all good" we are kindred spirit eh? :)  Sad about Sunny Acres though. I didn' t hear about that on the radio and I'm always listening to KVEC in the morning, King Harris usually stays on top of all the news, particularly the local stuff.  Where did you read this?  I need to go find their website again.  To be honest I was thinking of showing up Saturday and talk to them about a quasi-commercial project.. I've been contemplating organizing the local cement factory and possibly enlisting Air Vol Block to forming a small co-op that would be carried out on Sunny Acres site.  Hmm.. now what you say kind of changes what I had concocted in my head.

For the lurkers, Sunny Acres is an 80 acre site on the outskirts of San Luis Obispo.  It is the remnants of an old old ranch (DuVaul Ranch), the man who owns it is a recovered alcoholic and he runs a non-governmental controlled sort of halfway house for people who needed to get back on track in life.  Homeless people, recovering alcoholics, battered women, ex con's etc.  His method of working with people was a special method, one filled with love.  It was highly successful from the standpoint of helping those who went through his special program.  It was always a money pit of some kind, it never turned a profit even though they busied themselves operating a roadside vending stand selling things they grew on the ranch as well as seasonal things like Christmas Trees and Pumpkins.  The recovery and assistance program was so successful that the County would sometimes send people to Sunny Acres for improvement when the County facilities weren't able to help them.  Some time ago, in more recent times, some developer took hillside property nearby and subdivided and built some expensive homes that overlook Sunny Acres.  There is a nasty woman on the City Council who bought one of those homes. She's an import from Los Angeles and brings along with her all her big city methods for shutting down honest people like DuVaul (who owns Sunny Acres) because it was an eyesore to her.  She pursued relentlessly for years to get Sunny Acres to raze some old barns they had on the property that were in a state of disrepair.  And she was successful at forcing them to take down their roadside vending operation because it was being run from a "non-permitted" chicken coup like structure and operating with a business license.  DuVaul had to pay out some outrageous fees for attorneys and permits and whatnot.. and because he was operating his ranch as a full blown charity, he had no money to fight the "evil witch".  Not being able to even conduct any sales from their vending structure and having to tear it apart, they lacked funds to continue.  From what Evelyn is saying, they finally got to DuVaul and now have broken him to the point that he can't keep Sunny Acres running as a charity halfway house any longer.  So sad... 

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Evelyn Vollmer <evelynanne8@gmail.com> wrote:

 

Well, it looks as if I put my foot in my mouth, Perry. I apologize for this. I have too much negative energy in my life with I am working with a man that is always on the verge of temper, sometimes I feel if there is any more I am going to explode. Along with this I've been working everyday for this whole month except for 2 days which I slept most of the day, I take care of two elderly people, my mother and landlady. It is all too much really but it is no excuse for my behavior. As far as "dropping the ball" we had plans with Sunny Acres and just when we were to do something you said that you had to go out of town, I waited for you to contact me and you never did and I was disappointed. This is what I was talking about. So there it is and hope you will not hold this against me. Ev

PS Sunny Acres is closing this Friday and I feel very very sad about this.

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Perry Way <perryway@gmail.com> wrote:

 

Hey Evelyn,

I don't recall ever having dropped any balls.  If I truely did, then I apologize.  I was hoping we would do some kind of papercrete construction project with Sunny Acres.  Rather than dropping balls, how I have things in my mind is that you or I were always busy when the other was thinking of going there.  

Perry

Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:54:38 -0700
Subject: Fwd: [papercreters] Re: Papercrete Nirvana
From: evelynanne8@gmail.com
To: williams_judith@hotmail.com

Yikes! I'm from the same town as Perry is and am glad that I have a flight, I can not see myself driving all the way to NM with him. As a matter of fact Perry and I have talked about getting together to do some papercrete but he has always dropped the ball and when it came down to it I just did not hear from him, we have never met in person. 

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