Thanks to Guaranteed Rate’s Ultimate Neighborhood Giveback Challenge, Haywood County’s effort to turn an abandoned prison into a homeless shelter, soup kitchen and halfway house will be closer to reality as of Sept. 25. That’s when company executives and reality television star Ty Pennington will visit the project and lead

County residents learned Friday the Haywood Pathways Center entry in the Guaranteed Rate/Ty Pennington Ultimate Neighborhood Giveback Challenge took top honors, fetching $50,000 for the community and a visit from Pennington. A work date will be set sometime before October when Pennington and his crew to visit the community to

A group planning to revamp the long-closed Hazelwood prison to serve as transitional housing and a soup kitchen was advanced Monday when Haywood County Board of Commissioners approved a lease agreement with the Haywood Christian Emergency Shelter for a complex known as the Haywood Pathways Center. Although there are two other

Article Provided by The Mountaineer. Haywood County’s project to turn a former state prison into a halfway house, emergency shelter and soup kitchen is now a semi-finalist in the Guaranteed Rate/Ty Pennington Ultimate Neighborhood Giveback Challenge. Out of a total of 300 projects from 49 states, the Haywood project skyrocketed