I like the fundraising and the advocacy and meeting with people in the community or the county and City Council people — I think I'm a good connector of people.

Ideally, we'd want to work ourselves out of business. There will always be some people who need help. But, ultimately, we want to work to see the numbers going down.

She has since remarried and she's volunteering for a domestic-violence shelter herself now.

They were financially in trouble at the time — I didn't realize how much when they hired me. In my mind, the problem was that we needed to let the managers do their jobs, and look to the community and government for fundraising.

You have a lot of seniors in this community. We can't afford this increase. Young people here can't even afford it and they work two to three jobs.

You have a lot of seniors that live in this community. We cannot afford this large increase. Even the young people cannot afford this.