New vets home a country retreat
In foothills of Alpine, 20 beds now available for homeless vets
UT San Diego
By Jeanette Steele
JUNE 5, 2013
A new 20-bed center for homeless veterans has quietly opened in the Alpine foothills.
With a new basketball court, horseshoe pits, outdoor grills and a “victory” vegetable garden, organizers hope the sprawling property will offer a retreat-like experience to young former fighters wrestling with combat stress.
Volunteers of America, a national religious nonprofit group, opened the facility in February in a run-down cluster of buildings that had housed various recovery programs over the years.
In other words, it didn’t look so swanky back then. Gophers had free run of the place, sometimes popping their heads out of the ground within spitting distance of residents.
Enter the Home Depot Foundation, a charitable arm of the home improvement megastore chain.
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