{"id":251871,"date":"2017-07-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/gila-rut-turns-25-celebrates-from-the-heart\/"},"modified":"2017-07-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T07:00:00","slug":"gila-rut-turns-25-celebrates-from-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/gila-rut-turns-25-celebrates-from-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Gila Rut turns 25, celebrates from the heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Salon to give mini-makeovers to families at Ronald McDonald House<\/strong><\/p>\n

Por Margie M. Palmer<\/p>\n

Gila Rut salon owner Keri Davis-Duffy has always believed in giving back. This year, in honor of the salon\u2019s 25th anniversary, Davis-Duffy and her team will be venturing to the Ronald McDonald House to offer 25 mini-makeovers to the girls and their families.<\/p>\n

Gila Rut will also be holding a month-long fundraising drive at the salon, located in the HUB shopping center in Hillcrest.<\/p>\n

\"GilaFirst-time customers can receive a $20 blow-dry service and repeating customers can opt for $10 luxury hand treatment, scrub, additional massage or mini-facial. All proceeds from these services, Davis-Duffy said, will be donated to Ronald McDonald House Charities of San Diego, located near Rady Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve actually been working with Ronald McDonald House for many years. Before they built their new 22,000-square-foot home five years ago, when we\u2019d go up there we\u2019d rent a van or little bus and bring people to our salon,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen they built the new facility, they put in a four-chair salon so now it\u2019s easy to go there and offer services.\u201d<\/p>\n

Providing mini-makeovers to some of the families who are receiving services from Ronald McDonald House, she added, allows the salon team to provide some beauty and nurturing during a highly stressful and emotional time.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a feel-good day in the middle of a bad situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have the chills even talking about it,\u201d Davis\u2013Duffy said. \u201cThey\u2019re so grateful because they are there with a child that\u2019s terminally ill and they don\u2019t know how it\u2019s going to turn out. They have to be strong for their kids. For people to come in and nurture them and touch them \u2014 it\u2019s very emotional to hear their stories and it\u2019s very humbling. It\u2019s been very well-received, even from the fathers, who can get a haircut and a massage. It\u2019s a reprieve for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s event will take place on Monday, July 25, between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Davis-Duffy said her team members have been lining up to help.\"Gila<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a big staff meeting to talk about this, and during that meeting I showed a five-minute video about what Ronald McDonald House does, who they are, and some real-life stories,\u201d she said. \u201cAfter [the video] was done, they were wiping their faces, all in tears. Right now, we have more than a dozen people who have signed up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vince Speitel, Ronald McDonald House\u2019s volunteer coordinator, said they\u2019re thrilled that Gila Rut is coming back.<\/p>\n

\u201cThem coming here to see our families is tremendous because it brings normalcy to families. Many of these families get to the hospital only with the clothes on their back and Ronald McDonald House tried to take the edge off by providing a home away from home,\u201d Speitel said. \u201cHaving Gila Rut come out to do what they do, it helps bring normalcy during the tough times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis-Duffy said she\u2019s happy to help. This, being their 25th year in business, is all about the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is just such a time of reflection for us because what business can survive and thrive and continue to grow without community support? Over the years we\u2019ve worked with a number of organizations, including the Boys and Girls Club and the Make-A-Wish Foundation and when we were talking as a company about how we wanted to give back to celebrate the anniversary it just felt like, that for some reason, it had to be Ronald McDonald House,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is our way of giving back and saying thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Margie M. Palmer es una escritora independiente con sede en San Diego que ha estado acumulando art\u00edculos en una gran cantidad de publicaciones de noticias durante los \u00faltimos 10 a\u00f1os. Puedes localizarla en <\/em>margiep@alumni.pitt.edu<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Salon to give mini-makeovers to families at Ronald McDonald House By Margie M. Palmer Gila Rut salon owner Keri Davis-Duffy has always believed in giving back. This year, in honor of the salon\u2019s 25th anniversary, Davis-Duffy and her team will be venturing to the Ronald McDonald House to offer 25 mini-makeovers to the girls and […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":251872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Gila Rut turns 25, celebrates from the heart","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11551,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-news","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251871","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=251871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}