House of hope
Shelly Johnson stands in the living room of Oxford House Blue Heron, where she lives with four other women in recovery. Blue Heron was a men’s house but was turned into a home for women and women with children earlier this month.
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The bedrooms at Oxford House Blue Heron aren’t huge, but they have room for one or two women or for a woman and her child.
From the outside, Oxford House Blue Heron looks like any other house. Oxford House outreach workers said they tend to get along well with their neighbors, in part because they don’t party.
MOSES LAKE — The house on Ashley Way looks like most other houses in the neighborhood. It’s got an upstairs and a downstairs, bedrooms, bathrooms, a kitchen and a deck. But it’s an Oxford House, which means it also holds hope.
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