Giving a helping hand
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| WORKING FOR A GOOD CAUSE: Hy-Vee employees Quentin Hendrickson (left) and Marcus Hendrickson work on taking screws out of a window screen Saturday at the Pat and Carey Courtney home in Osceola. They were there, along with several other volunteers, as part of the Neighbors Helping Neighbors program. (S-T photo by Matt Pfiffner) |
For many people in the current economic climate, home improvements are a luxury item that cannot be afforded, no matter how much they may be needed.
Thanks to the Neighbors Helping Neighbors program, five Clarke County households will receive the help they desperately need.
The program enlists local volunteers from local companies, who spend one weekend per project in Clarke County performing home repair projects for elderly, low-income and disabled families.
The materials for each project are supplied free of charge by the Clarke County Foundation through a grant from the Clarke County Development Corporation.
This is the third year for the Neighbors Helping Neighbors program and of the nine applications received by mid-June, five were selected by the Clarke County Foundation Board to share the $10,000 grant.
"This is the largest budget we've had in the three years of the program," CCDC program manager Elizabeth Simpson said. "We try to get as many done with the budget we have."
For more on this story see the Aug. 19 edition of the Osceola Sentinel-Tribune.
