To the editor:
I read Darren Byrd’s article in the paper (Nov. 9 opinion page) and knew to write you about this.
I have two degrees in business and want to write a grant for a rehabilitation center for Brown County. I would write as a 501(c)3 nonprofit-structured business. It would be able to temporarily house and support the clients. There would be Narcotics Anonymous meetings and staff there 24-7.
There would be a business outside, like a side business that makes and sells the product, like a homemade hot tub, for example, and construction to wood sales. There would be a foreman and crew. They all would have to stay clean and sober. There would be a structured management of facility there. Birdhouses, treehouse kits.
Grants for people by people get funded first. The chamber of commerce could help. The community would benefit because of less crime, fewer re-offenders. When a 501(c)3 is running, donations are tax-deductible to the donators.
We would need someplace like Ski World or a place that we could start with a five-year plan. The first draw is $175,000. and the second draw is $750,000. With a grant written like a major business plan, we could get funded.
We would be supported with the Brown County Sheriff Department and the area of justice would have another option to deter the drug users and fight crime.
Kenneth Guy, Brown County jail inmate
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