The initiative aims to get people in prison college credits and work experience to up their odds at landing a job and staying out of prison going forward.
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"We had no clue that our mom had had twins," said Lisa Holley Vann, 51. "When we got together, it was like we had been together forever."
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A local networking group banded together to provide Christmas cheer to residents and staff at a local nursing facility.
Lisa Holley, a Mary Kay consultant, said she got the idea from an Adopt a Grandparent program the beauty and skincare networking company hosts.
Instead of grandparents, she hit on the idea of the Filling Home of Mercy because her niece became a resident there just at the time the COVID-19 pandemic hit and she has seen the strain that has been put on residents and staff alike.
âMy niece is 17 and she went into the Filling Home right as COVID hit, so that meant she couldnât leave on the weekends and couldnât get bused to Napoleon schools,â Holley said.