{"id":55241,"date":"2025-04-15T22:53:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T02:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=55241"},"modified":"2025-04-15T22:54:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T02:54:01","slug":"hope-house-the-house-of-horrors-bartows-little-secret-revealed-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/04\/15\/hope-house-the-house-of-horrors-bartows-little-secret-revealed-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHope House the House of Horrors\u201d, Bartow\u2019s little secret revealed \u2026. Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Editorial<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A client of the Hope House emailed the board members looking for help \u2026. Below is the response from Mayor Bill Mutz \u2026..<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-dominant-color=\"2e2e30\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"689\" height=\"1024\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mutzemail-689x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55242 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #2e2e30; width:690px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mutzemail-689x1024.webp 689w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mutzemail-202x300.webp 202w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mutzemail-768x1141.webp 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mutzemail-1034x1536.webp 1034w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mutzemail.webp 1290w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After finding out that this client went to the board, Tara Johnson gave the client 24 hours to move out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The board has a <strong>fiduciary responsibility<\/strong> not only to its staff for a fair workplace but to the clients they engage with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Only their website states: CORE VALUES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We are Committed to Excellence<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We are Community Focused<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We Operate with Joyful Service<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We are Resilient<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We are Devoted to Personal and Educational Development<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>But none of these are true &#8230;&#8230;.. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now they issue the following statement:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-dominant-color=\"efefef\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/490974758_2839931949527382_3118691190956485600_n-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55243 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #efefef; width:706px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/490974758_2839931949527382_3118691190956485600_n-1.webp 940w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/490974758_2839931949527382_3118691190956485600_n-1-300x251.webp 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/490974758_2839931949527382_3118691190956485600_n-1-768x644.webp 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Now the board refuses to talk to the media, WHY? What are they hiding &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MORE TO COME \u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Link to Part 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/04\/14\/hope-house-the-house-of-horrors-bartows-little-secret-revealed\/\" class=\"ek-link\">https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/04\/14\/hope-house-the-house-of-horrors-bartows-little-secret-revealed\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editorial A client of the Hope House emailed the board members looking for help \u2026. Below is the response from Mayor Bill Mutz \u2026.. After finding out that this client&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMDRcL211dHplbWFpbC53ZWJwP2ZpdD02ODklMkMxMDI0JnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiXHUyMDFjSG9wZSBIb3VzZSB0aGUgSG91c2Ugb2YgSG9ycm9yc1x1MjAxZCwgQmFydG93XHUyMDE5cyBsaXR0bGUgc2VjcmV0IHJldmVhbGVkIFx1MjAyNi4gUGFydCAyIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJoaWdod2F5IiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.x4Auma_I63Rf2E4dG6w2nCr8I869LFee1TRo8vCMg4oMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":55242,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mutzemail.webp","type":"image\/png"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55245,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55241\/revisions\/55245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}