11 houses completed, some large jobs and some small. This past week the team was split between two homes: two worked a small project repairing a laundry room in Perry, while the majority worked in Steinhatchee where two decks (front and back) had...
The weekly volunteers were: Earl, David, Kevin, Russell, Susan, Kara, Rosanna, Lillian, Loretta, Edna, Jason, Alvin, John, Michael. They departed for their respective homes in Pennsylvania and New York at the end of the week after completing a...
On Sunday evening eight men from PA joined us to continue the bridge building work here in North Carolina. Early in the week several men finished the gravel driveway and did the final grade at the Cordova bridge, along with seeding the grass there...
This was another week with too much rain. Rain is not conducive to putting roofs on houses. But in spite of the weather a lot was accomplished. Since one house was a new build, there was lots of inside work to be done. They finished installing the T1...
The week of February 8-14 brought a vanload of 12 determined young men to Pointe-Aux-Chenes. Two had served previously, and some knew other previous volunteers; therefore, they came knowing where we were at and had big plans to finish up drying in 2...
This week we welcomed 6 skilled and hard-working men from Wisconsin, as well as Dick, a plumber from Washington. And the weather was great – dry, sunny, and mild. We did not have to deal with mud this week! Bill’s house – We finished the...
We had beautiful weather here in Newton for our new volunteers to enjoy as they began their first week of work. Our new volunteers are Loretta and Peter from Northern New York, Cindy and Steve from North Carolina, Karen and Norman from Pennsylvania...
On Sunday we welcomed nine ladies from upstate NY/OH, and five men from Ontario CANADA. We also welcomed Ric & Joy (cooks for the week), and Ken & Suetta (construction supervisor). Unfortunately, both the cooks and construction...
This week we gathered 17 strangers together on Sunday, 8 from PA, 7 from Iowa, 1 from Maryland, and 1 from Winnipeg, Manitoba and mixed them up all week to work, sing, play and eat together and by Friday they were friends and no longer strangers! My...