Larkin's Place is in the heart

Subject: Larkin's Place is in the heart Mon 31 Mar 2008 - 12:13

Quote :: Amy Armstrong remembers the very moment it came to her, why it turned out to be her daughter – the child she and her husband, Andy, longed so much to have – who was born with disabilities.

Call it a voice whispering inside her head. Call it something a mother just knows. But there she was at the 2007 Polar Plunge for Special Olympics, watching kids dash out of the icy water, and she suddenly just knew that her little daughter, Larkin, was meant to be shared – as the driving force behind a new, all-inclusive recreation center where kids and adults with disabilities could have fun with their families and the rest of the community. "I think there is a spirit pushing this project," Armstrong says.

A year later, Armstrong's spark of an idea for a recreation center has evolved into a real project called Larkin's Place...