School was letting out for the Summer and the closed lake including the boys home for as the government called them juvenile delinquents had reopen for the summer. Both Damien and Rosemary didn't think any child was a waste of time and the government didn't know how to reach them.or really cared to. With the reopening Quiet Meadows received a hefty sum of money,enough to hire a second police officer if they continued working out of the storeroom in back of the barber shop The.police cheif's brother was hired as their second police officer
Samatha stayed home and helped watch the younger children and all of the animals with aunt Norma while Damien worked as a recreaction counselor at the lake when he wasn't doing something for the fire department. Rosemary was teaching a summer class at her new college in Winters Haven. Norman the fifteen year old's summer job was feeding their animals plus helping Lucas Alexander Jones on his parents farm then widow Edith Hudson with her chickens. Then they would go to the barber shop and cleaned the windows and mirrors before going back to feed the animals again
He was becomiing friends with Lucas who was a few years older. Paster Hasting's wife fixed the two young men lunch as they worked aroung the fellowship hall as paster Matthew Hasting drove to the lake to visit the boys at the lake boys home while eating lunch with them.Owen Shepherd volunteered to cut the boys hair every couple of weeks. The church's bus would pick up some of the boys and would bring them to the fellowship hall for bible school