| Support those who support Habitat |
| 92.5 The Chief ABC Sanitary Adams Outdoor Advertising Armstrong Cash & Carry Lumber Armstrong Lumber Babyland Bacon & Van Buskirk Boltini's Cabinetland Ltd. Cement Masons & Plasters Local #143 Champaign Do-It-Best Hardware Champaign Estate Sales Champaign Heating & Air Champaign Telephone Company City of Champaign City of Urbana County Market on Kirby Custom Flooring & Acoustics Denver Mattress Dodds Company Dow Chemical Eastland Suites eXtra 99.1 Ezell Excavating F & R Roofing Flat Top Grill Flooring Surfaces Fry Access Furniture Lounge Geocon HDC Engineering Herriott's Party Rental Home Depot IBEW Local #601 IDSCO Illiana Insulation Illini FS International Galleries Kan-Doo Concrete Kurt B. Crail Inc. Larson Laticrete International Lowe's Lutheran Social Services Prison Partnership Maxwell Counters Meijer Menard's Mix 94.5 MX Electric Inc. Nash Crane Service Inc. New Prairie Construction Patton Lumber Peckham & Associates Pekara Bakery Prairie Central Prairie Central Materials Prairie Productions Prime Time Pizza Prudential Landmark Real Estate Ramada Ltd. RC's Plumbing & HVAC Remco Electric Reynold's Towing RP Lumber Sam's Drywall Sherwin Williams Smith/Burgett Architects Springfield Electric Square D St. Patrick's Catholic Church Stevens Excavating Storage Options Solutions The Great Frame Up Thrivent Financial for Lutherans UpClose Vaspar Wal-Mart in Urbana Whirlpool Williams Business Interiors WIXY 100.3 Workout 24 |
| You've got some great stuff! |
| Drop off donations are accepted any time during
ReStore hours. Please pull up to the southeast garage door and ring
bell for assistance. Too large for your vehicle? Schedule a donation pick up! Donation pick ups are a $5 fee in C-U, and $10 outside C-U within a 15 mile radius. Contact us at (217)355-6460 x120 or ReStore@cuhabitat.org to schedule. |
| Summer hours coming soon |
| Starting Friday, June 5 the ReStore hours will
be Tuesdays - Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays from 1 - 5 p.m. Thank you to all the volunteers and customers who provided feedback on this issue. If you'd like to be involved in future surveys, please contact Eileen (director@cuhabitat.org, 217/359-0507 x111). |
| Interested in home ownership? |
| Contact Melissa Oglesby at office@cuhabitat.org or 217/359-0507 x130. |
| Habitat for Humanity Champaign County and ReStore |
| 119 E. University Ave. Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 355-6460 ReStore (217) 359-0507 Administration www.cuhabitat.org |
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| Sponsors to be buried at groundbreaking |
| Habitat for Humanity of Champaign County will host the
groundbreaking for two houses at 507
and 509 E Bradley in Champaign this Saturday, May 19, 2007, at
10 a.m. The homes will be built in partnership with the listeners of
the Illini Radio Group Stations, Thrivent Financial for Lutheran,
area Lutheran congregations, and the Zina Allen and Serafin and
Maria Dominguez families. In addition to special guest speakers Senator Mike Frerichs, Christine Scheffler from Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, and Mary Lynn Foster from 92.5 The Chief, the home owners will bury a time capsule with the names of all of their donors and partners. Zina Allen and her daughter Shayla Reddick are both natives of Urbana. An employee of Cingular in Rantoul, Zina's coworkers have already signed up to help on the build site. "I don't feel like this is a handout," Zina said, "because I worked hard.I earned this." The Allens' current apartment building has switched owners four times in six years and is slated to become deluxe condominiums putting their home of seven years out of reach financially. "Now, I won't ever have to wonder if there is some place we can go. I will have a home of my own."  Serafin and Maria Dominguez moved to Champaign 17 years ago. Having worked in agriculture, Serafin is now a cook at the University of Illinois. Maria works on the production line at Plastipak. Claudia attends Parkland College while Christian is at Urbana Adult Education Center. Brenda, born in Champaign, attends a local grade school.  When asked what buying a home meant to them, Serafin could not say thank you enough times. "I'm very grateful for strangers helping us, their kind hearts. If the tables were turned, I would do the same." In fact, all of the Dominguezes have already begun that work. With 500 hours of sweat equity to complete by the end of their build, all five family members have been in the ReStore, an investment in families beyond their own. ReStore Assistant Manager Bobby Northcutt describes Serafin as an "outrageously hard" worker. Both families were selected based on their need (substandard, crowded or disproportionately costly housing), ability to pay the mortgage (subsidized cost, no interest, over 20 years) and willingness to partner with Habitat and Champaign County (responsibility, integrity, sweat equity). The process involved extensive documentation, reference checks, interviews, and home visits. Please join us for this celebration! |
| Coming soon: 4th Anniversary Sale! |
| Coming soon: 4th Anniversary Sale! May 25-27 10% off Friday, May 25 20% off Saturday, May 26 30% off Sunday, May 27 Sunday only 40% off 5 - 6 p.m. Free popcorn! See new items here! |
| Pick up a hammer |
| The full build schedule, including tasks and needs for
this double build, is listed here.
If you'd like to volunteer as a crew leader, crew member or lunch provider, please contact Ellen Willcox (house@cuhabitat.org or 359-0507 x110). Due to insurance requirements, no unregistered volunteers will be allowed on site. |
| More than picking up a hammer |
| Looking to get involved but Saturdays on the build
site don't fit your schedule? We have any number of ways you can get
involved with Habitat for Humanity. Volunteering with the ReStore is
an ongoing opportunity that supports building homes, building
relationships and building community. It can be as hands on as
helping with our delivery service to as simple as collecting plastic
shopping bags for the store's use. For example, if you like speaking to groups and are passionate about Habitat, we need you! Requests come in regularly for presentations to schools, businesses and churches, groups of 5 to 100. The Faith Relations/Speakers Bureau has developed an application for Habiteers who want to make their skills available. Applicants will indicate availability, skill and audience preferences. After training and "ride-alongs," members of the speaker pool will be contacted according to their preferences. For more information, contact Eileen (director@cuhabitat.org, 217-359-0507 x111). We are also in need of fun-loving, detail oriented individuals to join our Volunteer Committee. This Committee works to recognize and thank all of our volunteers through events and other activities. Please contact either Courtney (volunteer@cuhabitat.org or 355-6460 x 116) or Ellen (house@cuhabitat.org or 359-0507 x 110) for more information. For more information about volunteering with the ReStore, please contact Courtney at volunteer@cuhabitat.org or 355-6460 x 116. |
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