Housing Development Alliance

Sorry for the delay of blogs, everyone! It's been pretty busy these past few days. St. Bartholomew Parish from Cincinnati spent the past 2 days volunteering with us at the Airport and at a worksite way, way deep into Saul. The Airport group not only did the flooring for a new home, but also got all the exterior walls up. All in just two days nonetheless! The group in Saul made a new deck, and, I believe, did some work on the windows. But don't quote me on that. We've had the youth group from St. Bart's last summer, but these are all new adults. They heard good things about Housing Development Alliance and wanted to help out. We hope they had a good time these two days and want to see them again, maybe for a longer period of time.

We also had two volunteers from First Federal State and Loan return to R. Wallen's home to landscape. I even had the pleasure of helping plant the flowers and bushes. Which, I might add, is a task I haven't done in a very long time. This completes Wallen's new home and she simply adores it. Everyone who worked on that house did a great job.

And, finally, we had a big shock today when our Construction Coordinator, John Rudd, had to have an emergency appendectomy. The pain came very suddenly and we were very concerned when he had to be rushed to the hospital. Fortunately, the surgery was successful and John Rudd is alright. For the time being, though, please keep him and his family in your thoughts. We hope to see him alive and kicking soon. (He'll probably kill me for even mentioning him in our blog.)