Service project by DSC women's basketball players — including Lily Dunaway — benefits Food Brings Hope

Members of the Daytona State College women's basketball team cleaned up and enhanced the landscaping and backyard deck area of Hope House.

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| 11:50 a.m. October 14, 2021

(Top) Sherranda Reddick, Asst. Coach, Kacie Oelkers, Taniya Gordon, Dynasty Witherspoon, Tamaya Patterson, Tron Griffin, Head Coach, Kierra Wheeler, Blessing Okoh (Third Row) D'Asia Small, Jaida Young, Danea Mackey, Lily Dunaway

Lily Dunaway played for Flalger Palm Coast High School in 2020-2021. File photo

Palm Coast Observer
Sports

by: Diane Smith

Food Brings Hope

Hope House recently received an outdoor make-over courtesy of the women’s basketball team at Daytona State College. Hope House is an initiative of Food Brings Hope with the objective to provide unaccompanied youth, enrolled in Volusia County Schools, with a safe and stable living environment, ensuring their graduation from high school, success in their personal lives, and ultimately helping them become productive members of society.

Fourteen members from the team along with two coaches, head coach Tron Griffon and assistant coach Sherranda Reddick cleaned up and enhanced the landscaping and backyard deck area of Hope House. With teamwork and determination, the group of athletes and their coaches worked through the heat for hours and turned the exterior of HOPE House into a sanctuary for residents.

In addition to the landscaping, the team assembled bags of school supplies to be used for a future school supply drive for underprivileged children in the community.

Three team members are alumni of local high schools: