The leadership of Lund’s 50 Joy Drive Capital Campaign - Governor Jim Douglas, Commissioner Melinda Moulton, and State’s Attorney for Chittenden County TJ Donovan - will welcome guests Thursday to Lund’s new building at 50 Joy Drive in South Burlington for a ribbon cutting and official dedication of the facility as The Hoehl Family Building. The capital campaign facilitated the purchase and renovation of the building. Lieutenant Governor Phil Scott will also be present.
The 50 Joy Drive building is now home to Lund’s 5 STAR Early Childhood Program, New Horizons education program for pregnant and parenting teens, adoption department, parent child center services and business office. Governor Howard Dean who, with Governor Douglas, was an honorary co-chair of the campaign, refers to the new building as, “a huge step forward in making essential services more comprehensive, well organized, and more broadly available.”
The dedication ceremony will begin at 9:00am with a speaking program followed by the ribbon cutting. Tours of the facility will then be available.
For over 120 years, Lund has been helping families to break the cycles of poverty, addiction and abuse. Lund creates hope, opportunity and family for Vermonters through community and residential treatment for mental health and substance abuse, education, family support, life-skills and job training and early childhood education. Lund is also Vermont’s oldest adoption agency. Lund is a member agency of the United Way of Chittenden County.
Governor Jim Douglas makes a joke at Governor Howard Dean's expense, asMelinda Moulton and TJ Donovan join in, during a Lund fundraiser in 2012. VBM file photo