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Our Latest Build on North Grant Avenue
The new house looks like a house! The walls and roof are up, the inside is framed, electric, gas, and plumbing is being run, and I even saw some porches today!
Soon enough, we'll be putting up the siding. And then it will really start to appear house-like.
Of course, we're still looking for volunteers. 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
Our annual triathlon has drawn to a close. Congratulations to all our athletes who took part! (I know for a fact I would have been carried out on a stretcher after swimming half the swim course. Seriously, it just looks so...daunting. Sort of frightening, actually. I digress.) If you'd like to see the results of the race, you can find them right here.
Thank you to all our sponsors who made this race possible. You can find a list of our wonderful, benevolent, awesome sponsors right 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, Executive Director of 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 the spring.
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.
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.
