Bay Area Recovery Center Alumni Host Annual Easter Egg Hunt
Event Provides Sober-Sponsored Activities for Families
HOUSTON – April 22, 2010 –Bay Area Recovery Center (BARC) Alumni Association welcomed the public to participate in its annual Easter Egg Hunt April 3rd, 2010. The Center’s alumni, staff and volunteers provided food, fun and fellowship at a great sober-supported event. Activities began at 11 a.m. with the Easter Egg Hunt starting at noon. Hamburgers and hotdogs were served for lunch and families enjoyed a moonwalk, softball and volleyball games and a raffle throughout the day.
Bay Area Recovery Center alumni and volunteers hosted a sober family event for Easter including an Easter Egg Hunt, fun, food and games. Plus, the Easter bunny made an appearance!
“We had a wonderful time watching the families from all over the area enjoy this event,” said Lance Clemons, BARC facility director. “It was a truly great day.”
“Helping families, not just addicts, recover from addiction is what Bay Area Recovery Center is all about,” said Joe Shipley, CEO of BARC. “This event means a lot to our counselors, clients, alumni, family, friends and the surrounding community.”
"To me, my brother was always "just there." It seemed like no one saw him, heard him, even me. I won't go into specifics of how his drug use started and where it went, that's not necessary....only that it got so bad that he might as well have been dead, because there was no Jeremy. Just a body hanging around, which by the way if you've never loved someone with a drug problem, is far worse than them actually being dead."
"But he did not die. He was reborn. I searched for days on end for the "right" kind of recovery for him. Something kept bringing me back to this one place: Bay Area Recovery Center. I searched over and over to figure out why. I sifted through so much information and talked to so many people, but I just knew that was the place. Well, I didn't know, God knew and whispered it to me, so to speak."
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