PORT ANGELES — A $5,000 grant through Choice Hotels International and the efforts of a Sequim hotel manager will help family members visit the Captain Joseph House in Port Angeles once it opens.
General Manager Yolanda Pompa of the Quality Inn and Suites applied for the competitive grant offered through the hotel’s parent franchise.
“It resonated in my heart because I had two uncles in the military who are gone now,” she said.
“It means a lot to me to give back where it’s needed.”
Betsy Reed Schultz, founder and executive director of the Captain Joseph House Foundation, thanked Pompa, hotel owner Bret Wirta and assistant general manager Kaittlyn Reese for believing in the foundation’s vision.
Schultz talked about the open house held in March and said work continues on preparing the house for bringing families to 1108 S. Oak St., in Port Angeles.
Schultz created the foundation in memory of her son, Captain Joseph William Schultz, a U.S. Army Green Beret detachment commander, who died in an IED attack in Afghanistan in 2011.
The facility, which will be unique in the nation, will offer respite and retreat for military families who have lost loved ones while in the service of the U.S. Armed Forces or died as a direct result of injuries sustained during this same combat service after Sept. 11, 2001.
For more about the foundation, see Captain JosephHouseFoundation.org.
For more about Quality Inn and Suites, call 360-683-2800 or see choicehotels.com/wa151.
