P O Box 669 - Luray, VA 22835
AKA
Taking Kare of People Farm
ABC Learning Park,
Kaufmann Foundation
Critter Park
IRS Approved Educational and Charitable Organiztio
Taking Kare of People @
Critter Park .com
We welcome young persons, families and pesons dealing with issues that need a safe place to
get away and heal, get some mentoring, work off some anger or just be around good people that care.
Critter Park is a park that has Eldership Living Programs - where Elders spend time with younger people -
Teaching, Coaching, Mentoring, Working along side by side with farming, building, and many other kinds of projects.
Community Service and Respecting the real meaning of Honor and
Self Discipline and Taking Kare of People and Critters and Business is the goal of A B C Learning Park.
The Wellness House will provide Wellness facilities such as spa, pool
and therapy room,
Community Learning and meeting room, Worship and Private
Conference facility.
Most of the renovations involve building ramps and decks to accommodate
special needs and handicap access. Also available at the Wellness
House is a
special therapy room, for massage and wheel chair shower room.
The Wellness house will also soon be equipped for a group dining facility
group sleeping quarters, private small and moderate assembly facilities
with privacy in beautiful setting with
fantastic views and trails - located just below the Blue Ridge
Mountains and the Skyline Drive in Luray, Page County VA.
Learning Park that use to be the OUT
BACK?
also known as the Taking Kare of People Farm?
or maybe you heard about a community
being developed at the
Taking Kare of People Learning Park and Community?
Maybe you heard about people learning to build their own home?
Did you hear that young persons would be taking kare of Elders?
Humm.... Come back soon to see if they're true...
We're up to a lot of planning - and looking forward to working with
University
students in Virginia - and seeing how our Learning Park develops with
time and people wanting to develop a better life for today and tomorrow.
Keep checking in for more updates.
Soil and Erosion and Site development plans - being considered for the Learning Park that include a
Duffers Course, Wetland areas, Horse and walking trails, Critter House Observatories,
Wireless Internet Study and Meeting Cabins, Conference and Library Facility,
Wild Flower Meadow, Wellness House and Therapy Spas and Swimming Pool(s).
2004 TKP Farm is being considered for development for
an Independent Living Residential Community
More information coming soon - 30 acres of natural habitat
is being developed into a closed gated residential community for
Elders and Young families to live together - Getting Back to Basics,
Learning and Living and Taking Kare of each other - at the
Taking Kare of People Farm and Learning Park Community.
Plans are underway in partnership with local university students to develop a
Pilot Learning and Living Residential Natural Habitat and Park Community -
Focused on creating an environment for a better choice for a better quality of life.
TKP project is committed to developing and maintaining a natural habitat and
residential community for elders to feel safe and
depend on younger neighbors community based supervised care - and youth to
depend on elders for guidance, education, opportunity, and support without being a burden on
each other or the government with the goal to improve and
protect our quality of life - taking kare of each other and getting back to basics.
Photos
of Old Ice House Renovation Project completed 2002
Surveying for sewage lines, Steve helps with the math, Lee has
it figured out, Now Lee is explaining to everyone 
Bonnie
is confirming with code
Philip starts to dig, Bonnie helps out on the trencher
Coming out of the 12
ft ditch
Trenches to remind us how deep we really did go 
Deeper
yet... 
And
the red tape for the electric lines
Old Ice House Renovation
Before renovations 
Have to get rid of the graffiti with new insulation paint with Harry
Williams and Jason
Jason peeking out of the barn door
replaced with a window and air conditioner
Upstairs barn of Old Ice House with new patio
window overlooking beautiful Skyline Drive in Luray, VA 
Old Ice House Rock Foundation being framed up for
dry wall. 
Carpet on the floor - we cam a long
ways 
Rust Grip Paint to protect basket
ball pole
Justin helping his Daddy Jason put up a fence at learning Center
Shi-Tzu Puppies are trained for Seniors and handicapped persons.
All the pets are used for training and therapy and also sold to special persons as projects from the
young and old persons that help love, train and groom and devevlop the social skills of the animals on critter park
to better understand how discipline is so important and why we need to respect rules and how
rules and discipline make harmony - that make people have more fun in life.
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5 Learning Park - Luray, VA 22835
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