What’s New(s) @ Good Neighbor?

Thank You, Chris Elder

A big shout out  to Chris Elder, volunteer at Good Neighbor and senior at Baylor University. Chris provided 30 hours of volunteer work in the Fall semester,  helping  us out with Halloween and several projects around the property. He will graduate in May and move to...

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New Guests: Tween and Teen Homeschoolers Social Group

The Waco Area Tween and Teen Homeschoolers Social Group began meeting at Good Neighbor on Wednesday afternoons, from 2-4 pm. Here are photos from their first meeting last week and a STEM team project: fun, engaging, educational. (The girls' team won.)   If you...

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Dancing @ Good Neighbor

Friends gathered on Saturday evening at Good Neighbor House for dancing and fellowship. They were learning several new dance moves and practicing some standards. Organizer Diana Castillo says, "Dance unites us and enlivens us in ways we can't explain. Despite the...

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Spring Cleaning

A few volunteers gathered last weekend to move items from the Sun Room and old supply closet into our new closet in our Living Room (photo on left).  Thanks again to Rory Jones for the ongoing construction (it's now painted and we only need the doors).    ...

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Kitchen Refreshed for Spring

While our indoor spaces remain closed to the public, we are working on small projects to refresh the looks of the house, to make it more inviting as we anticipate reopening when COVID conditions allow more gathering. For an example of this work, look at our kitchen...

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Congratulations Sarah Flores!

Join us in congratulating Sarah, on her May 7, 2021 graduation from Baylor University with your degree in Writing and Rhetoric. We appreciate all the work she did as our Public Relations and Communications intern this past semester. She is leaving us with quite a...

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Congratulations and Farewell Audri Thicklin

Please congratulate and say good bye to Audri Thicklin, one of our Resident Volunteers. Audri graduated on Saturday, May 8, 2021 from Baylor University's Diana R. Garland School of Social Work with a Master of Social Work. This week she will be moving back to Alabama...

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Congratulations Morgan Koziol

Congratulations to Ms. Morgan Koziol, Good Neighbor’s Fall 2020 Public Relations and Social Media Intern from Baylor’s Professional Writing and Rhetoric program. She graduates this semester and has accepted a “graduate assistantship in the Sociology Ph.D. program at...

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2011 to 2021: Dr. Laine Scales

[Note: 10 years ago, Dr. Scales purchased the Good Neighbor property. Though this interview is not meant to be a retrospective, it invites us to appreciate ongoing commitments to the mission and vision first conceived 10 years ago.] For my (Sarah) final interview as...

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