The Butterfly Effect: Community Champion Spotlight
Kay Wilson-Bolton, Real Estate Broker and Property Manager
This September will mark Kay Wilson-Bolton’s 50th year as a resident of Santa Paula. During this time, she has been an active member of the community, involved with everything from the Santa Paula Chamber of Commerce to the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Clara Valley. She has even served as Mayor of the City of Santa Paula. Kay wears many hats and is an established real estate broker and property manager as well as the Chief Financial Officer for the Spirit of Santa Paula, a local nonprofit that provides essential services like housing, meals and more to her community.
She recently shared with us why she’s a champion of the Ventura County Neighbors Support Fund and how she’s trying to do her part to show our neighbors they are not alone.
I am one like many, who are very aware of the suffering that’s going on in the whole world, and there’s actually little we can do about most of it, but the Ventura County Neighbors Support Fund allows those of us to share this common thread of compassion to do something today.
I can’t do anything about so many things, but I can do something today for people in front of us. That’s important to me. Today I can support people providing food and other essential items.
Many people who are watching the suffering and displacement don’t know what to do, but the Ventura County Neighbors Support Fund makes it possible for those who are hopeful but feel helpless to actually do something.
For today, I need a place to do something and that’s what this new fund provides to all of us who I think are standing by wanting to do something but not knowing what.
We have a duty to care. I am Christian and I have very deep feelings about what Jesus said. Feeding and clothing and visiting people who are sick and in prison. He didn’t say do it if you feel like it. He said when you do it.
I don’t think it’s right that we stand back and say, “It’s not my problem,” because they are our neighbors and we need them.
We all agree that we need due process; it’s part of our Constitution. But when it comes to suffering, I think everybody should say, “Yes, we need to do something about that.”
It’s easy to throw rocks at those who don’t agree with you. I wish that we could set aside differences and come together for the purpose of ending suffering.
Interested in sharing your “why”? Contact Candice Nyholt at [email protected]