Mélange Accessibility for All Magazine October 2021 | Page 55

To Table of Contents that was built 80 years ago – the very same stage , just freshened up a bit . This hotel will be part of the community !
Cindy Bennett , who once attended the school will be the hotel manager . Adeyemi Allen , the Executive Chef , also attended this school and was a star athlete . He has been working as an executive chef in North Carolina and now he ’ s back and is excited about this opportunity .
We are also involved with the community on a quietly philanthropic level . A few months ago , we received a phone call from a family whose 19-year-old daughter
went hunting and was left paralyzed when a tree limb fell on her . After rehab was finished , it was time to come home but she was in a wheelchair and her house was not fully accessible . We donated the materials that was needed to make it accessible and more importantly , our subcontractors donated their time , taking days off from working at the hotel . They descended on to this house and within two weeks it was ready for her when she came home . But will this 19-year-old ever going to be able to go hunting again ? Sure enough , a company customized a wheelchair for her so she can enjoy the outdoors again with the big tires that were put on it , she can handle the woods .
Our involvement with the community continued with the distribution of school supply packs in August . Combining a bit of marketing in this situation , where the hotel will be in the building that was once a school , we gave away hundreds of school supplies to children in the community .
The Schoolhouse Hotel will be a showcase for the rest of the world and fully embraced by the community of White Sulphur Springs , West Virginia .
Opening the first quarter of 2022