MORGANTOWN – There’s a fine art to heckling people on the golf course, and Michael Cole was hitting it straight down the middle on a mellow Friday afternoon last September. It was easy, since he knew a lot of the people teeing it up for the day at Lakeview Golf Resort and Spa. Such ...
Sometimes we forget that addiction recovery isn’t as simple as deciding to get sober. Don’t get us wrong — that decision is the first and most important step. But once someone has made that decision, there are dozens of obstacles standing between them and recovery, many of which are ...
BY MIKE NOLTING The addiction triage center in Morgantown, Lauren’s Wish, has received a Congressionally Directed Spending Grant of $838,000 from the office of U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin. The center is at Hazel’s House of Hope on Scott Avenue and has a 28-bed capacity, common areas where ...
It all started in 2020 with a conversation between a father and daughter - one that ended with a promise for the future. As Michael Cole tells the story, his daughter Lauren, who had battled with addiction for years, said, “Dad, there are so many people suffering from addiction ...
“It covers a year’s worth of rent.” “You could call it a month worth of keeping the doors open.” “It could be applied to everything.” The above are just a few examples of how Lauren’s Wish Founder and Chairman Michael Cole and Board of Directors Members Edward Boyle ...
When Michael Cole made a promise to his daughter Lauren to one day do something to help kids and people struggling with substance abuse, he did not imagine that “one day” would come so soon. In July 2020, just three weeks after his promise, Lauren, who was fighting her own ...