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11/17/12: Volunteers Beat the Rain To Clean Up Home
After ABWK was rained out last Friday and Saturday we were determined to make sure we got this Saturday’s project completed. It rained pretty steady the night before but stopped early enough to allow the home to dry out a bit and we were on! Volunteers from Calvary Presbyterian Church and Emmanuel Lutheran Church were […]
11/10/12: Wells Fargo Tears Apart Demeter House!
Out of the morning fog on a cold Saturday morning, came a crew of ten from Wells Fargo Bank. Armed with nothing more than red t-shirts, unbridled enthusiasm, and heavy power tools, they engaged a battered and beaten house, until there was nothing left but walls. Filling an entire 20 foot trash bin to the […]
11/9/12: Solar for Homes 4 Heroes
What a great day to spend our Veteran’s day weekend. Our fellow non profit partner, Grid Alternatives, organized a solar installation on our Homes for Heroes houses in Jurupa Valley. The Saxtons are twin brothers and long time residents of Riverside County. They are also next door neighbors and have been raising their families together. […]
11/3/12: Charity Beer Garden
Do you recognize any of these brewing names? Hanger 24 (Redlands), Wicks (Riverside), Black Market (Temecula), Aftershock (Temecula), Craft (Lake Elsinore), Wiens (Temecula), Packinghouse (Riverside), Sons of Liberty Aleworks (Norco), Inland Empire (Riverside). You don’t recognize all of them? Well that might be because Wiens is opening their brewery this Saturday and Wicks is opening […]
11/3/12: Jasso’s MBA Student Volunteers
Once again, Professor Sean Jasso and his MBA students at UCR came out ready to work on Saturday to help Habitat Riverside paint the exterior of a mobile home belonging to a low income family in need of A Brush with Kindness. Together they painted the home of Felix and Rosa who live in the […]
10/30/12: I Bought A House, Now What Step #4
Step #1-Learn about your neighborhood Step #2-Protect your investment Step #3-Maintain your house Step #4-… Be fiscally fit and stay on budget. Home ownership is so much more than paying the monthly house payment and utilities. Luckily, Habitat Riverside has strong partners like Union Bank to help educate our new home owners. Vicki Gomez and […]
10/27/12: Bank of America Demolishes!
On a cool Saturday morning Bank of America workers showed up at Habitat Riverside’s latest project. They brought a wonderful gift to help out: This $50,000 grant is critical assistance from Bank of America. Habitat Riverside was able to purchase one last foreclosed home with the remaining Neighborhood Stabilization Program funds, but did not have […]
10/27/12: UCR Chapter & ADT Volunteers
A big thank you goes out to the teams from ADT and the UCR Habitat Campus Chapter who worked hard painting the home of Sultan and Muna in the Countrywood Estates Mobile Home Community in Corona. This large group of energetic volunteers came ready to make a difference for this family. Sultan is a senior […]
10/20/12: Kaiser Cares!
After weeks of temperatures reaching into the 90’s and even a couple of days last week hitting the 100 degree mark, who would have guessed that Saturday would bring drizzles and cloudy skies all day? Certainly not the hardy volunteers from Kaiser Permanente who showed up en masse at King Arthur’s Mobile Home Park in […]
10/19/12 Clean Up Crew!
WOW! What a great group of volunteers we had today to help us out with a special project. Habitat Riverside received a donated lot on Pierce St in Riverside that we are not quite ready to build on. Unfortunately, empty lots attract unwanted vegetation, and a few other unwanted things. So we put out a […]
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