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Guest House thrives at new Oak Street site 1 year after eviction
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Friday activities are posted at The Guest House as activities director Margie Tice Hurst helps Elizabeth Allison get to bingo in the lunchroom. Activities keep the adult day care clients busy, a board member said, but they miss a wood shop left behind in last year’s forced move. A remedy is in the works. - photo by NAT GURLEY
This time last year, Dana Chapman was in “panic mode.” As the executive director of The Guest House, a private, nonprofit adult day care center specializing in dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, Chapman didn’t have the answers she, the staff and the patients sought. The day before Thanksgiving, the center was served with an eviction notice from the Gainesville Housing Authority’s Tower Heights community building it operated out of for the last two decades.