| 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 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 |
| How to donate to the ReStore |
| 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. |
| 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 |
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| Updated ReStore hours |
| Summer hours complete! We are returning to Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday 1 to 5 p.m. See new items here! |
| 2017 sweaty volunteer hours on our homes and counting |
| by Ellen Willcox, Build Volunteer Manager
(217-359-0507 x110 or house@cuhabitat.org) Thank you Prince of Peace Lutheran Church and the St. Andrews Student Group - they worked tirelessly on siding and fire caulking. I never knew that siding the house gables takes many, many precision cuts and can be done in different patterns. One volunteer from Prince of Peace worked on cleaning up the build site, she picked up debris, she raked, she swept - now, ours is the only build site in town where it is safe to eat off of the ground! We have amazing volunteers. A big thank you to the New Canaan Baptist Church Drug Rehabilitation Program for the snacks they donated to our volunteers. How wonderful it is that we are so welcomed in the area community. After this next Saturday, the outsides of the homes will be completed. In the next weeks, we will be putting up walls, painting and landscaping. It is fun to watch Maria Dominguez and Zina Allen take pride in their homes. They will always know which boards they nailed, the supports they held, which siding they cut, placed and nailed and which of the windows they helped place and caulk. What a great job was done by Dave Bagger, Jack Baldwin, Van Bowersox, Eric Brucker, John Chatfield, Chris Chatfield, William Donkervoet, Annette Duitsman, Henry Gerlach, Tim Gilles, Greg Goebel, Cristian Geodicke, Cindy Goetting , Todd Goetting, Matt Harring, Kevin Huckshold, Emma Israel, Karen Jersild, George Kieffer, Vern Magnuson, Shelby Marsolf, Mitch Marsolf, Helen Miller, Ray Parks, Dylan Pomes, Marc Porter, Herman Reddick, Gerald Sappenfeld and Jim Taeger - thank you all! |
| Amazing Days with Horizon Hobby |
| Imagine the excitement at Habitat when we received a
call from Terri Kirby of Horizon Hobby saying, "We'd like to build a
Habitat house." Just weeks later we found ourselves sitting at a
table with Horizon staff hammering out details to move forward on a
new partnership. Horizon Hobby, one of the world's largest hobby companies, was founded in 1985 by Rick Stephens. Horizon Hobby became a 100% employee-owned company last year and is known throughout the industry for its exceptional attention to customer needs, outstanding product expertise and, most importantly, integrity. Rick's company philosophy is the foundation of support for their success. He and his brother Larry's commitment to "give back" by helping others with basic needs has always been an important part of the makeup of the company. Horizon has a commitment to the community in which it lives and to the international community as well. Horizon's core values encourage community, action and volunteerism. The term "servant leadership" captures the character of Horizon Hobby and is frequently used in conversations with their staff. Horizon is known for being a business that has repeatedly invested in people outside of their walls. Through ongoing financial support and the talent of their employees, Horizon supports a number of charitable efforts. This will mark the first house Horizon has built with Habitat for Humanity, but they have built six houses in conjunction with Operation Hogar, a home building mission of the United Methodist Church, in Juarez, Mexico. "We are pros at mixing mortar.by hand" says Beverly Huffman, Director of Services. For three years, Horizon employees have taken their personal time to build housing for families in Mexico. While this has been a fulfilling experience, the Horizon crew wanted to do something that directly impacted their local community. "We see the impact our efforts have made in Mexico and we want to do the same thing in our home town," said Rick Stephens, "There are hard-working, needy families right here in Champaign County that just need a little boost to get them out of out of living in poverty. We are blessed and consider ourselves fortunate to have the opportunity to pass our blessings on to a hard working family like the Overcasts." On 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 (10) 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." Not only that, the family is tired of windows being broken by stray children, vandalism on their doors and walls and a lack of breathing room. The Overcast home will be completed by November 3rd, and they will have a new home for the holidays. The home will be built in a new concentrated format, called AMAZING DAYS. Horizon 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. "I had no idea there were people like this in the world," said Amber, "to think that a local business would give two weeks of their employee's time to build a house for my family, it's incredible. This is a gift that will help my children and one day my grandchildren, and will make all the difference in our entire family's future. The generosity and compassion Horizon has for me and my girls is touching. It is truly AMAZING." |
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