GarysTime.com
MISSION STATEMENT
To provide formal and informal assessments, where career path interests are learned, and interviewing and facilitation skills are taught through “inter-action” education. To provide tools, job skills, certifications, mentoring, parenting and life skills to “at risk” and re-entry individuals. To assist in job retention, affordable home ownership, financial independence, budgeting and re-entry development where these individuals may learn to overcome barriers, deal with “triggers” AND participate in the opportunity to become successful law abiding citizens
Success is an Option ~ Choose it!
My
thinking is that UNLESS we are involved in unified, positive
dialogue, followed by positive action and more importantly positive
reinforcement in the mindset of those living in Gary, Lake County and
beyond we will be impacted by the negative consequences as a result
of our complacency. The former we can choose, with complacency, we
risk loosing that choice
Together we Stand ~ Divided we Fall
Did you know that there are nice incentives being offered to Businesses willing to hire ex-offerners? http://www.bop.gov/inmate_programs/itb_employing_ex_offenders.jsp
Up to $2,400 per individual hired on your payroll: If you hire these men and women they could be eligible under the Work Opportunity Tax Credit Program and Welfare to Work qualifications. We will prepare the paperwork if you hire permanent
Did you also know that the Federal Government has a Bonding Program through Unicor that will protect you when hiring an ex-offender, please visit here for details; You can qualify for $5,000.00 of insurance against loss, the coverage is free for the first 6 months
Lets getter done now, stage is set, choice to me is simple, we either get involved and give these folks tools to succeed in life in a positive way or risk having ours affected in a negative one, whats it gonna be Gary? What time is it? Click on my Work order form to the left, fill it out and get it to me and I will see that you get the help you need
Isn't it Gary's Time?
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The challenges we face here in Gary are among the greatest in this land of ours. Folks they are simply challenges, I choose to view them as opportunities, opportunities for employment, opportunities to rebuild, opportunities to be one as a community again. The age old rule of "cause and effect" has contributed to the challenges we face.
We have problems in our society, but there are also solutions, if we are not part of the solution, then we may be part of the problem, and just my opinion but we need to look at that.
Part of the challenge may simply be inaction, or the thinking that the problems will simply go away. Let me tell you from personal experience they will not, they will grow like a disease, feed on themselves, until ultimately you cease to exist.
We need to first admit that we have challenges, work together to understand a little about how we got here and then develop a comprehensive solution and commit to a plan action.
It is not rocket science folks, a wise man once told me that if I do today, what wasn't working yesterday, and expected the results to be different then I might be crazy, ok enough physco babble, it's Gary's Time, time to get to work.
We have registered our name as It's Gary's Time INC and will be a community based locally run non profit corporation. We are planning to finance the operation through Private Investment, State and Federal allocations and donations. Volunteerism will play a vital role in us realizing our goals and keeping costs down.
Part of the structure that is being considered is to have some of our efforts funded through REEACH.ORG Redevelopment and Energy Education Assistance for Community Housing, our plan is to form REEACH as a 501(4)c, attorneys are helping in the forming of this piece, more info on this will be forthcoming should we decide on this direction.
Everything that the Gary's Time program is involved in, from hiring local folks to cut grass and clean vacant lots, to planting trees and shrubs to hiring local licensed contractors to renovate existing homes all the way to the new construction phase will be posted here. We will hire an independent CPA that will provide us with quarterly reports that will be posted here, we want to "show you the money", where it came from and where it went.
This is your city and I feel that transparency and accountability are the only ways to establish a lasting relationship, where the cornerstone is honesty and from that trust. We need to come together to develop a singleness of purpose, where we will think nationally and act locally.
I believe that God has called to come to Gary Indiana and make a difference. Folks say I am about half nuts but I am packing up everything I own and moving out your way so that I will be there. I want to learn from you just what it is you want and need and to hold your hand if need be until you get where you want to be. My plan is to be on the ground and running in the spring if this year.
I promise that once I have all my paperwork properly submitted at the State and Local levels, I will help the folks of Gary Indiana re-build the Real Estate of your great city, one block at a time.
I am building this site for you, the folks of Gary Indiana, as time passes we will have this site full of events, progresses, defeats and overall experiences of your Gary's Time program.
I thought this was really cool: In the 1957 Meredith Wilson's Broadway musical The Music Man featured the song, "Gary, Indiana," describing the alleged alma mater of lead character Professor Harold Hill ("Gary Conservatory, Class of '05!"). The joke in Hill's claim, of course, is that the city of Gary wasn't founded until '06. Wilson's musical, set in 1912, was later made into two movies.
"GARY, INDIANA" from Meredith Wilson's "THE MUSIC MAN":
(to turn off the song click the lil square on the right of the player)
It's a Happy, Fun Song, Sing along if you like, Here are the Lyrics
Gary, Indiana, Gary Indiana, Gary, Indiana, Let me say it once again. Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana, That's the town that "knew me when."If you'd like to have a logical explanation How I happened on this elegant syncopation, I will say without a moment of hesitation There is just one place That can light my face.
Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana, Not Louisiana, Paris, France, New York, or Rome, but Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana, Gary Indiana, My home sweet home.
Isn't it time that folks start signing about Gary Indiana once again?, well sure it is!
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I have a vision for this great city and that is: "The renewal and stabilization of communities within the City of Gary, through the demolition and rehabilitation of existing homes and new construction on vacant lots that will among other great things, decrease the number of vacant, unsafe homes / lots, create jobs, attract businesses, help restore safer communities and finally help return properties to the tax producing roles"
Maybe you have some fond memories or other cool stuff you would like me to post about your great city. Please stop back often and help me make this site a reflection of; not what Gary is today, but what we all know it can be. Please help me by leaving any comments you like on my contact page, or if you like, you can also email me, by doing so you will be helping me make a difference in Gary Indiana. Please send any emails to: roger@garystime.com I can not do it alone, but with your help WE WILL restore Gary Indiana to the great city you know it can once again be. Too much time has past and in my opinion, it is GARY'S TIME!!
Thank you Roger Hayward, Founder
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