Christmas Time brought more Volunteers!

On December 2, 2007 Unity Hill United Church of Christ from the frozen north (Connecticut) came to sunny Florida for 7 days, sending 2 gentlemen to work on 3 projects. They did a roof repair for Jacqueline, repaired sub floor for Eris and wired an electric stove for Minerva. The two stayed at Community Presbyterian Church of Clewiston. The two gentlemen came all the way from Connecticut to help with these repairs. They contributed 80 hours of work that equals to $1500.00 of in kind dollars. The First United Methodist Church fed them on Wednesday night, and The Community Presbyterian Church fed them Thursday night, the Executive Director had them for dinner with her family at her home one night as well.

On December 15, 2007 a group of 7 volunteers from Memorial Methodist Church in Lake Placid came and worked cleaning up debris at Edith and Penny’s homes. This group consisted of 2 women and 5 men; they contributed 24.5 hours of work that equals to $459.38 of in kind dollars. This group is planning another trip with some of the youth at their church. They want to come and pressure clean and paint Edith's home. They will be supplying the pressure washer and the paint. We received a donation from Lifestyles Shutter Systems (They are one the contractors we use for our Mitigation program) for one of our clients that we are rebuilding a home for, with an in kind value of $2500.00. We also had our LTRO meeting on December 19, 2007 where we had 2 of our members who are volunteers donate an hour of their time.

Total volunteer hours donated in December was: 106.5 Total In Kind donations: $1996.88