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Olivarez Family Receives Their Keys!
Connie Olivarez and daughter Christal Espinoza recently received the keys to their Habitat home and got a look at their new home, which has two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a backyard. Connie has worked for Merry Maids for 25 years and Christal just graduated from a community college and has applied to multiple colleges for […]
6/2/12: Spackle & Caulk Day
Our Habitat volunteers answered the bat signal once again! Our cry for help went out on May 31st and just in a few hours we had 25 volunteers ready to go for June 2nd. 5 of these heroes volunteered at Crestmore, our new build. Alongside the Dominguez family (future Habitat homeowners purchasing Crestmore), the Nolasco […]
6/2/12: Helping Hands Day
We had a fantastic group of volunteers painting at King Arthur mobile home park in Riverside on Saturday. A ton of trim work, but this team made it look like child’s play. We completed the entire project just as the sun was breaking through, well before noon. To transform a mobile home in such a […]
6/2/12: Neighborhood Conference
Saturday was a wonderful day in Downtown Riverside! The Neighborhood Conference was very well planned. Those who attended were involved with workshops, interactive booths, relationship building, enhancing social capital, and children’s activities freebies. Habitat Riverside and the ReStore saw a great response from the crowd and our Bank of America summer intern Franay Cordova did […]
5/31/12: Update from Sister Habitat
Did you know that when you support your local Habitat, you are supporting a global cause? Habitat Riverside tithes to Habitat for Humanity Dominican Republic. Considered our “sister” Habitat, the Habitat in the Dominican Republic like to keep us updated with their work and activities. Check out what your little sister is doing: HFH-Dominican Republic […]
5/26/12: Memorial Day Weekend
A huge shout out to the great volunteers that came out to Countrywood Mobile Home Park in Corona on Saturday. Thanks so much for giving up part of your holiday weekend to help out seniors Charles and Maralind Jean Weis. Their home needed some TLC and the volunteers came through perfectly. This was a huge […]
5/26/12: Rolling Walls @ Crestmore
Early Saturday morning? Check. Eager volunteers? Check. Paint to make the day uber messy? Check! Ready for another Habitat volunteer day! Some old friends were with us at Crestmore to roll all the walls on Saturday, May 26. Jennifer Gaston and her son and daughter. John Arroyo and family along with our regular fantastic core group of […]
5/23/12: Wells Fargo Paint Day
Another small but mighty group on Wednesday & Thursday. The Wells Fargo group from the Tyler Street location came out and did their second project this year at King Arhur Mobile Home Park. Check out the before and after pictures below, what a transformation! Since we only had a group of 5 on Wednesday and 5 on Thursday it took […]
5/12/12: The Well Volunteer Day
We had a small but mighty group of painters from The Well at Harvest on Saturday at King Arthur’s Mobile Home Park in Riverside. The homeowner, a young woman and her mom were so greatful and felt really bad that she couldn’t help out because she was recovering from surgery. She was in tears when […]
5/12/12: Lowe’s Women Build
Jurupa Valley Mayor Laura Roughton and the women of Lowe’s participated in the Habitat for Humanity’s National Women Build Week held May 5th to 13th. This year’s theme, “The Build Generation,” reflects the event’s goal to recruit and train women volunteers, as well as welcome the next generation of Habitat Women Builders to help support Habitat’s […]
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