{"id":1646,"date":"2020-11-16T20:06:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T02:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hopefarmfw.org\/come-dream-with-us\/"},"modified":"2023-06-08T11:10:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T16:10:25","slug":"come-dream-with-ws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopefarmfw.org\/come-dream-with-ws\/","title":{"rendered":"Come Dream With Us!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published in 2011, Tom Slone\u2019s Grounders: A Once-in-a-Lifetime Journey of Baseball, History, and Mentoring<\/em> is a story that not only documents a trip across the country visiting incredible baseball stadiums, but is also a book that explains 33 life-lessons that Tom learned through baseball, business, and life. These lessons include ones on helping, planning, respect, forgiveness, listening, second chances, saying \u201cthank you,\u201d having faith, honesty, consistency, and hard work.<\/p>\n

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Tom Slone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tom was a dear friend of Gary Randle, Co-Founder of HOPE Farm, and spent over a decade serving on HOPE Farm\u2019s Board of Directors. He led a fund raising campaign that raised 1 million dollars to build the gymnasium that has become the center of programming on the Morningside Campus. Tom also introduced Sacher Dawson (Current Executive Director) and Leon Potter (Director of the Dallas campus) to HOPE Farm as volunteers over two decades ago. Tom was a connector of great people doing great things.
\nWhen Tom passed away suddenly on September 29, 2018, there was at least one plan for HOPE Farm that he did not see happen: the building of a vocational center that would teach the boys various trades and equip them for life as a man as well as possible careers.
\nLast year, Tom\u2019s wife Fran approached HOPE Farm with a generous donation to begin the process of realizing Tom\u2019s dream of a vocational center and on September 29, 2020, two years after his passing, there was an emotional event at HOPE Farm as we broke ground for what will be known as the Slone Vocational Center<\/p>\n

To view the ceremony which included words from Mayor Betsy Price, visit
\nwww.hopefarmfw.org\/slonevocationalcenter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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