Peninsula Home Fund

Keeping warm while starting fresh: Sequim couple receives Peninsula Home Fund help

Keeping warm while starting fresh: Sequim couple receives Peninsula Home Fund help

Here in the Dungeness Valley, Michelle and John Bonifazio found the life they were looking for. They had met and married in Southern… Continue reading

Keeping warm while starting fresh: Sequim couple receives Peninsula Home Fund help
Home Fund helps senior with repairs

Home Fund helps senior with repairs

Wearing an impish smile, Carol Curtis will tell you: “I lived a semi-wild… Continue reading

Home Fund helps senior with repairs
Peninsula Home Fund campaign begins: Thirtieth year of donations providing a ‘hand up, not a handout’

Peninsula Home Fund campaign begins: Thirtieth year of donations providing a ‘hand up, not a handout’

Everybody needs a hand sometime. Thanks to the generosity of North Olympic Peninsula residents, more than a thousand people received “a hand up, not a… Continue reading

Peninsula Home Fund campaign begins: Thirtieth year of donations providing a ‘hand up, not a handout’
Alexis Haire lives in the Port Angeles home she built for herself and her daughters Maddie, 7, left, and Lily, 11. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/for Peninsula Daily News)

The Home Fund, the house and the connection: Help demonstrated that no one is alone

In Alexis Haire’s life, the support that came around is now going around. Haire, 31, lives in a spacious house she built… Continue reading

Alexis Haire lives in the Port Angeles home she built for herself and her daughters Maddie, 7, left, and Lily, 11. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/for Peninsula Daily News)
(Diane Urbani de la Paz/for Peninsula Daily News)                                Marie Sewell of Port Townsend makes afghans — such as this one with Seahawks colors — to give away.

Christmas meal saved by Home Fund help

When you walk into your kitchen to create the big holiday meal, you can take one thing for granted: the ground beneath… Continue reading

(Diane Urbani de la Paz/for Peninsula Daily News)                                Marie Sewell of Port Townsend makes afghans — such as this one with Seahawks colors — to give away.
A reason to smile: Home Fund helps dental clinic see more patients

A reason to smile: Home Fund helps dental clinic see more patients

When the man in the charcoal-gray scrubs smiles and says, “I’m Joe,” you know you’re not in the average dental office. People… Continue reading

A reason to smile: Home Fund helps dental clinic see more patients
Trina Sloan recently adopted a kitten for her little boy — and for herself.                                (Diane Urbani de la Paz/for Peninsula Daily News)
Trina Sloan recently adopted a kitten for her little boy — and for herself.                                (Diane Urbani de la Paz/for Peninsula Daily News)
Director: Peninsula residents take care of each other through Home Fund

Director: Peninsula residents take care of each other through Home Fund

By Dale Wilson Executive Director, Olympic Community Action Programs As executive director of Olympic Community Action Programs, I am honored and privileged to participate in… Continue reading

Director: Peninsula residents take care of each other through Home Fund
<strong>Diane Urbani de la Paz/</strong>Peninsula Daily News                                Jack Hopkins has begun a new life at Highland Commons in Port Angeles.

Home Fund gives Forks man a home

Jack Hopkins didn’t see this good thing coming. An Army veteran, a… Continue reading

<strong>Diane Urbani de la Paz/</strong>Peninsula Daily News                                Jack Hopkins has begun a new life at Highland Commons in Port Angeles.
Thank you! Peninsula Home Fund donations at $218,004

Thank you! Peninsula Home Fund donations at $218,004

Thank you! You contributed to remember and honor loved ones. You contributed as groups, couples or individuals. Some of you contributed anonymously. All of you… Continue reading

Thank you! Peninsula Home Fund donations at $218,004
Small Home Fund awards often make a big difference, case manager says

Small Home Fund awards often make a big difference, case manager says

Justine Bedell is a huge fan of the Peninsula Home Fund. As housing program manager for Olympic Community Action Programs (OlyCAP), she… Continue reading

Small Home Fund awards often make a big difference, case manager says
Leap of faith changes Port Townsend man’s life

Leap of faith changes Port Townsend man’s life

Joe Gaikowski, 32, has experienced more traumas and more heartache in his relatively short lifetime than most. One of his friends was… Continue reading

Leap of faith changes Port Townsend man’s life
Stitches join friends together for Home Fund

Stitches join friends together for Home Fund

By Jeannie McMacken for Peninsula Daily News SEQUIM— Every Wednesday throughout the year more than 100 quilters from the Sunbonnet Sue Quilt Club make an… Continue reading

Stitches join friends together for Home Fund
Vouchers for daily life: Home Fund helps young families

Vouchers for daily life: Home Fund helps young families

Diana Assumpcao reached into her file cabinet and pulled out a manila folder bulging with papers, measuring almost three inches thick. A… Continue reading

Vouchers for daily life: Home Fund helps young families
Peninsula Home Fund provides ‘just a little bit more to get by’

Peninsula Home Fund provides ‘just a little bit more to get by’

When life gives you crates of lemons with no way to juice them, how do you make lemonade? Billi and Eric Smoot… Continue reading

Peninsula Home Fund provides ‘just a little bit more to get by’
Home Fund helps Port Hadlock woman with home repair

Home Fund helps Port Hadlock woman with home repair

Marie Cota knew she had a serious problem. What do you do when you finally… Continue reading

Home Fund helps Port Hadlock woman with home repair
OlyCAP director: Home Fund is catalyst for hope, courage

OlyCAP director: Home Fund is catalyst for hope, courage

Fall colors are fading as snow again blankets the peaks of the Olympics. Our breath hangs heavy in the chill as daylight retreats. This is… Continue reading

OlyCAP director: Home Fund is catalyst for hope, courage
Peninsula Home Fund: A whole lot of love to go around for Schauer family

Peninsula Home Fund: A whole lot of love to go around for Schauer family

For Lynette and Ken Schauer, the idea of family is bigger than themselves. They consider the entire community to be their family.… Continue reading

Peninsula Home Fund: A whole lot of love to go around for Schauer family

Peninsula Home Fund kicks off to provide a ‘hand up, not a handout’

Everybody needs a hand sometime. Thanks to the generosity of North Olympic Peninsula residents, thousands of people received “a hand up, not a handout” through… Continue reading

Jim’s Pharmacy raises funds for Peninsula Home Fund

Jim’s Pharmacy raises funds for Peninsula Home Fund

Jim’s Pharmacy employees and customers have helped to give the Peninsula Home Fund a good start in the new year. In December,… Continue reading

Jim’s Pharmacy raises funds for Peninsula Home Fund