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Our Latest Build on North Grant Avenue
The new house looks more like a home day by day and a dedication is coming soon! The Slagle kids are anxious to move in but we have a few finishing touches first. Notable milestones added recently... a wood floor and carpeting donated by Young's Interiors of Ford City, installed by Paul Klukan and volunteers.
Soon enough, we'll be putting in a sidewalk and landscaping. Know anyone who just LOVES to build forms for concrete? Concrete finishers? Tree or flower planters? Sod placers or grass seed distibutors?
Of course, we're still looking for volunteers for future jobs including serving on committees or our Board of Directors. If you would like to donate your time to a worthy cause, give us a call! We'd love to hear from you!
724.545.4905
If you have a question whether or not we will be working on a particular weekend, please call our CONSTRUCTION HOTLINE: 724.545.4906.
The 13th Annual Crooked Creek Triathlon
Results posted below. Time to get ready for 2010!! Read on...
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Race Sponsors – THANK YOU!!!!!!!
The 14th Annual Crooked Creek Triathlon
Saturday, September 18, 2010
With all of its surrounding hills and beaches, Crooked Creek Park is the ideal setting for a rewarding Triathlon experience. Participants are drawn to both the scenery and the challenge, as well as the cause to which they are contributing. The Triathlon to date has been an annual major fundraising activity for the Affiliate. Get involved !
Face the challenge! Help make a difference for needy families! From beginning to end, the new director and her team will do their best to make your experience one that you will always remember --- and return to --- year after year. Please submit your welcomed comments and suggestions to: klukan3974@hotmail.com.
Download brochure and entry form here.
Serious Donation to Armstrong Habitat for Humanity
Serious Materials, a Sunnyvale, California company that recently acquired the assets of Kensington Windows in Vandergrift, donated over 200 brand-new windows to Armstrong Habitat for Humanity.
The gift, valued at over $97,000, was arranged by Paul Rosenberger and Chuck Wetmore of Serious Materials and Donnie Gutherie for Armstrong Habitat for Humanity.
The donation, during such an economic crisis, is truly a spectacular gift and will do much to help families find decent, affordable housing. “We’re a very small affiliate of Habitat for Humanity,” Gutherie said, “and a gift like this is just amazing.”
Some of the windows will be kept for future building projects; the rest will be sold. The monies collected will be used for building projects in future years.
About Habitat for Humanity: Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry. HFHI seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. Habitat has built more than 300,000 houses around the world, providing more than 1.5 million people in more than 3,000 communities with safe, decent, affordable shelter.
About Serious Materials: (Sept 2009) Serious Materials, based in Sunnyvale, California, recently acquired the assets of Kensington Windows in Vandergrift, PA. Serious Materials will soon be reopening the facility, installing new equipment to make super-insulating windows and commercial glass, and is immediately creating new green collar jobs. Serious Materials develops and manufactures sustainable green building materials that save energy, save money, improve comfort and aggressively address climate change. The company was voted #1 at Cleantech Forum XII, won Global Gypsum Product of the Year 2008, won the first Aspen Institute award for innovation in Energy Conservation and was awarded Green Product of the Year by Popular Science. It has also been recognized by TIME/CNN, Fortune, Business Week, AlwaysOn and Red Herring as one of the top green technology companies. For more information visit www.SeriousMaterials.com.
