| Support those who support Habitat |
| Thrivent Builds Homes/Illini Radio Group Allen and
Dominguez Family Build Sponsors 92.5 The Chief ABC Sanitary Armstrong Cash & Carry Lumber AXE Man Cabinetland Ltd. Cement Masons & Plasters Local #143 Champaign Do-It-Best Hardware Champaign Heating & Air Champaign Telephone Company Dow Chemical eXtra 99.1 Fry Access HDC Engineering IBEW Local #601 Illini Radio Group Illiana Insulation Kurt B. Crail Inc. Larson Lone Pine Electric Lutheran Social Services Prison Partnership Maxwell Counters Mix 94.5 Patton Lumber Prairie Central Materials RC's Plumbing & HVAC Reynold's Towing RP Lumber Sam's Drywall Square D Stevens Excavating Storage Options Solutions Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Twin City Movers Valspar WIXY 100.3 Yerkey's Septic Women Build Homes with the Corona Family sponsors National Council of Negro Women, Champaign County Section Amazing Days with the Overcast Family Horizon Hobby ReStore sponsors Champaign Do-It-Best Hardware Champaign Estate Sales Champaign Telephone Company Custom Flooring & Acoustics Denver Mattress Dodds Company Flat Top Grill Flooring Surfaces General Growth Properties/Marketplace Mall Home Depot Laticrete International Lone Pine Electric Lowe's New Prairie Construction Prairie Productions Prime Time Pizza Prudential Landmark Real Estate Remco Electric Sherwin Williams Smith/Burgett Architects Springfield Electric |
| Habitat for Humanity of Champaign County & ReStore |
| 119 E. University Ave. Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 355-6460 ReStore (217) 359-0507 Administration www.cuhabitat.org |
| Brought to you by Champaign Telephone Co. |
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| Thank you recent ReStore volunteers... |
| ...future home owner Zina Allen, Adam Bosch, George
Kieffer, Susan Drozdz, Jenna Drozdz, Leroy Hodges, Richard Hann,
Michaela Miller, Ben Mosenthal, Axel Mueller, Tom Napier, Ben
Newell, Charlie Nordstrom, future home owner Amber Overcast, Kenya
Overcast, DeAnna Overcast, Herman Reddick, Matt Seng, Gabriela
Seufferheld, Beth Voigt, Naneera Vidhayasirinun, Matt Varvel and
Dennis Vidoni. In the face of a receiving area with no air conditioning, you made July one of our most successful months ever. Thank you! ReStore hours are: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday 1 to 5 p.m. Donations of goods for the ReStore are accepted 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday, 1 - 4 p.m. Sunday. 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. See new items here! |
| Edging Towards the Finish Line |
| by Ellen Willcox, Build Volunteer Manager
(217-359-0507 x110 or house@cuhabitat.org) Our running total of 2269 volunteer hours is putting us closer every week to completion and the September 15 dedication of our two Thrivent Builds Homes/Illini Radio Group houses. On site last week, to check out what is happening with Habitat, was a member of the Bell family, the first home owners for this affiliate. Thank you to Herman Reddick, Vern Magnuson, Paul Speers, Eric Sheu, Charles Blatti, Kim French, Michelle Voss and Laura Eisenmonger for working on the porches and railings along with our future home owners. Thank you to Wayne and Betty Wendland and their friends from Whirlwind who prepared lunch. Tomorrow we will be painting the insides of the homes and trying to stay cool! |
| Amazing Days with Horizon Hobby Groundbreaking |
 Tomorrow, August 11th, at 10 a.m., Horizon Hobby will
break ground for the future home of single Native American mother,
Amber Overcast and her three little girls at 1105 N Goodwin in
Urbana. Amber grew up in Champaign. Her daughter, Aisha was born while Amber was still in high school but that didn't keep Amber from earning her diploma from Centennial in 1997 and a certificate in Information Processing from Parkland the following year. Since 2002 she's been driving trucks for a US Postal Service contractor. "I learned to shift those gears in an hour. I fell in love with it." Mother Rhonda Overcast gets all the credit for Amber's success. "There's no telling where I'd be if it wasn't for my family." Amber's done the same for her girls, fighting to get her daughters tutoring, equal access to quality education. "If I have to sit through their classes and walk them down that stage, they will graduate from high school." Nothing will keep Amber and her three girls, Aisha (12), Ta'La (8) and Bri Lynne (1.5), moving into a new Habitat home. "This is my outdoor girl," she says pointing to Bri Lynne, "and she can't go outside here." The family is tired of windows being broken by stray children, vandalism on their doors and walls and a lack of breathing room. The home will be built in a new concentrated format, called AMAZING DAYS. Horizon Hobby employees will volunteer on the build for six straight days, then take three weeks off allowing subcontractors to complete their work, Horizon returns for another six days to complete the home. After twelve AMAZING DAYS (and three weeks) Horizon Hobby will have completed a new home for the Overcast family just in time for the holidays. |
| Golfing for Habitat at Stone Creek |
| This exciting fundraiser, hosted by Stone Creek Golf
Club, is devoted to Champaign County 501 (c) (3) Charitable
Organizations. Non-profit organizations across the county will be
given an opportunity to not only raise awareness of their goals and
purpose, but to give them a venue to raise much needed funding for
their organization. Registration and fees must be complete and returned by October 8, 2007 How Can You Participate in Charitee Days? Foursome Registration $300 Individual Registration $85 Friend of the Charity Donation $25 Hole Sponsor $250 For more information, click here. |
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