{"id":243483,"date":"2010-05-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/cheryls-hope-stone\/"},"modified":"2010-05-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T07:00:00","slug":"cheryls-hope-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/cheryls-hope-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheryl\u2019s hope stone"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Cheryl\u2019s<\/a>
Cheryl Houk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stepping Stone celebrates 10 years mapping the road to recovery<\/strong><\/p>\n

Por Jessica Hudgins
\nAsistente de Publicaciones SDUN<\/p>\n

Ten years ago Stepping Stone, an Uptown alcohol and drug treatment agency that caters mostly to the LGBT community, built a state-of-the-art facility to help people recover from their harmful addictions. The site is called Cheryl\u2019s Stone in honor of Cheryl Houk, who single-handedly raised the $2.6 million needed to build it. <\/p>\n

June 4-6, Stepping Stone will honor Houk\u2019s achievement with a 10th anniversary gala weekend celebrating Cheryl\u2019s Stone. <\/p>\n

When Houk, Stepping Stone\u2019s former executive director, first told people about her plan to build the facility, everyone told her she would never be able to do it. <\/p>\n

\u201cCheryl really persisted and was able to pull together the right organizations and the right people to get the funds,\u201d said John De Miranda, Stepping Stone\u2019s president and CEO. <\/p>\n

Those who have found a temporary home at Cheryl\u2019s Stone during their recovery are still thriving, he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn the past ten years, so many people have walked through our doors and managed to enter into long-term recovery,\u201d De Miranda said. <\/p>\n

The 10th anniversary celebration isn\u2019t just a party \u2013 it\u2019s a fundraiser that will raise money for the nonprofit organization\u2019s many services. De Miranda said the national economic downturn and cuts to the state budget have affected Stepping Stone. <\/p>\n

\u201cRight now our major goal is just to survive the next few years,\u201d he said. \u201cA few years ago we had dreams of expansion, but all that is on hold.\u201d <\/p>\n

Stepping Stone aims to raise around $50,000 during the anniversary weekend through a series of activities. <\/p>\n

On Friday, June 4, there will be a free open house at Cheryl\u2019s Stone. This is an opportunity for the community to explore the facility and see what it offers. The open house begins at 3 p.m. with a 30-minute teatime before the proclamation ceremony featuring numerous city officials at 3:30 p.m. Houk will be on hand to talk about the importance of having a facility such as Cheryl\u2019s Stone available to the Uptown community.<\/p>\n

The next day, families and friends can enjoy a day of fun in the sun at a Balboa Park picnic. For $10 guests can compete in tennis and volleyball tournaments and a karaoke contest. The event starts at noon, and hamburgers and hotdogs will be available until around 4 p.m. <\/p>\n

That evening is the main event: \u201cA Celebration Under the Sky.\u201d The gala will be held on the Porto Vista Hotel\u2019s rooftop from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Showtime comedian Poppy Champlin will entertain, and DJ Sandra Ware will be at the turntable, heating up the dance floor. Tickets are $100 per person or $800 for a cabana that seats 10. <\/p>\n

The anniversary celebration\u2019s finale will be a Sunday morning pancake breakfast at Cheryl\u2019s Stone, 3696 Central Ave. The breakfast starts at 9 a.m. and costs $10 per person.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stepping Stone celebrates 10 years mapping the road to recovery By Jessica Hudgins SDUN Publications Assistant Ten years ago Stepping Stone, an Uptown alcohol and drug treatment agency that caters mostly to the LGBT community, built a state-of-the-art facility to help people recover from their harmful addictions. The site is called Cheryl\u2019s Stone in honor […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":243484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Cheryl\u2019s hope stone","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11551,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}