CityView Magazine - Fayetteville, NC
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Discove r Cit yV iewN C.co m's fre s h up d ate d loo k ! | 23 anyone else who might be in need. "We bought some things for Steve, and then we met a few others," Wofford said. e giving hasn't stopped since. Wofford describes it as a snowball effect, with more people helping supply needed items and resources and then discovering more people in need of help. "I had a really cool group of people helping, and we all said, 'OK, if we're going to do this, let's really do it,'" Wofford said. Among the group of regular volunteers was Graviel Rivera, who originally came to Seth's Wish in need of assistance himself, but kept coming back to volunteer even aer he no longer needed services. "ey don't look at you like you're homeless here. ey look at you like a person," Rivera said. "I didn't dress the way people thought homeless people would dress, so other places would turn me down. ey didn't do that here." Rivera found housing aer about two years of coming to Seth's Wish and credits the organization with helping him make the move. "ey became my family," he said. Staci Graybill, whose children also attend Capitol Encore, started volunteering last September. She's now the organization's managing director. Graybill had a long history of community service, mostly performed with church groups and done in a manner she considered too sporadic to effect real change. "It wasn't my idea of what needed to be done, going out on one weekend or one day out of six months and saying, 'Oh, we helped the homeless,'" Graybill said. "It was aer Hurricane Florence, when I had all this water and stuff to donate, that I thought of Seth's Wish. "I showed up one day, and I didn't leave." Player McLean, LLP A T T O R N E Y S M P 400 Westwood Shopping Center Suite 210 (Player Office Building) Fayetteville, NC 28314 910.426.5291 www.playermclean.com Business Litigation | Contracts | Corporate Formations Bankruptcy | Real Estate Litigation | Construction Law Collections | Land Use | Wills & Estates Condemnations | Commercial Transactions Lonnie M. Player, Jr. James A. McLean, III Anne Mayo Evans Aaron N. Bailey Jennifer Malone* *Of Counsel Player McLean, LLP A T T O R N E Y S M P Player McLean, LLP A T T O R N E Y S M P Think Yourself Thin Sherry L Melvin, CHt, Life Coaching & Hypnosis 910.916.3024 | www.SherryLMelvin.com Maintaining a healthy weight doesn't have to be a constant battle! You CAN lose the weight and Hypnosis can help you get there. This four session Weight Loss Package is proven 95% successful. ARE YOU READY TO GET STARTED? Call for your FREE phone consultation. Evening & Weekend Appointments Available