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Ray McDaniel

Ray McDaniel

Executive Director of 22 2 None, a Northern Michigan veteran suicide awareness nonprofit, and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran (1994–1998).

Sep 17, 2026

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That's so cool.
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Brandon as our program director, he is just, again, calendars and spreadsheets and agendas and budgets, like he's all about it.
40:31
But that's a good thing.
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You know, as annoying as it can be sometimes, it's a good thing because we have Monday night dinners.
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We've got first and third Wednesdays as a modeling night to build a little model cars and stuff like that.
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We've got Thursdays are open volleyball nights.
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The fourth Monday of every month is not just veteran and a first friday movie night until participation fell off where you know nobody's showing up but a couple of us to watch a movie in the theater room um we've got an outdoor venture series uh where we're out hiking hunting fishing camping whatever uh throughout the year um what else am i missing here we we just started expanding the programs and now we're talking about maybe why don't we combine a couple of them so where you know volleyball could be happening in the gym but we can also tinker and do modeling stuff in another room we've got we've got 20,000 square feet here we can take up the space you don't have to have every night doing something right and looking at doing like a tinkering night where you just if you want to tinker on something uh we've got a veteran that wants to build his own ice fishing tip-ups a whole let's how do we support you in that you know so um another marine another marine yeah you know and then uh you know we've got a lumber room back here that's just full of lumber that you know big box stores have donated to us let's build some deer blinds let's build some chicken tractors let's you know what are we going to do with all this stuff so let's put our stuff to use so um That also came with turning loose of some of the responsibility, you know, and allowing others to lead in what they are passionate in leading in and and embracing it and supporting them in that manner.

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