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This is a rendering of Mercy House, a building that will be the parish house for Bethesda Episcopal Church, but will also have space to provide support for race course backstretch workers.
Courtesy Mercy House of Saratoga<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mercy House of Saratoga Inc., a new nonprofit group created to provide temporary residences for a wide range of people in need, has received a pledge of $25,000 from the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen\u2019s Association (NYTHA) to support and dedicate accommodations for Saratoga Race Course backstretch workers.
\nThe announcement was made on July 17 by Gordon Boyd, president of Mercy House. Representatives of NYTHA, Mercy House and the Backstretch Employee Service Team (BEST) gathered at the future site of Mercy House on Washington Street in Saratoga Springs to announce NYTHA\u2019s pledge.
\nThe funds will be put toward the construction of a 6,000-square-foot suite of rooms to serve backstretch workers from Saratoga Race Course, within a four-story, 30,000-square-foot building to be built on land abutting Bethesda Episcopal Church.
\nConstruction of the $9 million building, at 26-28 Washington Street, is expected to begin in the coming year.
\nIn addition to Mercy House, the new building will serve as the parish house for Bethesda.
\nThe suite will be dedicated to the late Rick Violette, longtime president of NYTHA and an advocate BEST.
\nBEST will provide recovery and counseling services to the backstretch workers accommodated in Mercy House. Violette, a successful thoroughbred trainer who celebrated a win with Diversify in last year\u2019s Whitney Stakes at Saratoga, died in October after a lengthy battle with lung cancer.
\n\u201cNYTHA is pleased to support Mercy House\u2019s development of accommodations for backstretch workers who are being helped by BEST for counseling, recovery and recuperation,\u201d said Joe Appelbaum, president of the NYTHA board. \u201cWe believe that Mercy House will help further BEST\u2019s mission, which is to meet the health and social welfare needs of the backstretch workers at Saratoga Race Course through alcohol or substance use counseling and other assistance.\u201d
\nPaul Ruchames, executive director of BEST, said the partnership with Mercy House \u201cis a big win for our workers and another example of the commitment of the Saratoga County community to help track workers. The importance of a caring community to the healing process cannot be overstated.\u201d
\nMercy House was established last year by Bethesda to provide and manage a new housing resource for people in need of shelter or supportive housing. In addition to BEST, Mercy House is partnering with agencies that serve victims of domestic violence and their children, homeless military veterans including women with children, and people living with mental health and substance use disabilities.
\n\u201cWe are grateful for NYTHA\u2019s generous support, and this will be a fitting memorial to Rick Violette\u2019s example and leadership on behalf of the workforce,\u201d said Gordon Boyd, president of the Mercy House board of directors. \u201cServing BEST\u2019s clients at our location, just off Broadway in downtown Saratoga, will mean a place for workers to recover and eventually resume their jobs, in a safe, clean and focused environment.\u201d
\nDarren Miller, senior warden of Bethesda, said, \u201cproviding accommodations for workers from the Saratoga Race Course who need recuperation or recovery is central to Bethesda\u2019s religious mission of caring for people in need, as scripture instructs us to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mercy House of Saratoga Inc., a new nonprofit group created to provide temporary residences for a wide range of people in need, has received a pledge of $25,000 from the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen\u2019s Association (NYTHA) to support and dedicate accommodations for Saratoga Race Course backstretch workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":33816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news"],"yoast_head":"\r\nThoroughbred Horsemen\u2019s Association Gives $25,000 To Mercy House Of Saratoga Project - Saratoga Business Journal<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2019\/08\/thoroughbred-horsemens-association-gives-25000-to-mercy-house-of-saratoga-project\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thoroughbred Horsemen\u2019s Association Gives $25,000 To Mercy House Of Saratoga Project - 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