(Elyse N. Brown, Executive Director, RMHC of Norfolk)
If you’ve driven by the Ronald McDonald House on Norfolk’s Colley Avenue across the street from Sentara medical complex and caught a passing glimpse of a lifelike statue of the famous fast food chain’s clown waving and briefly wondered if this was an administrative office or the actual home to Ronald, the Hamburglar, Grimace, The Fry Kids or Birdie The Early Bird, you’d be wrong.
As the non-profit organization states, “For 45 years, Ronald McDonald House Norfolk has been a place where families find comfort, strength, and each other during life’s most difficult moments. When a child is hospitalized, we keep families close, physically, emotionally, and financially, so they can focus on what matters most…healing.”…