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2010 Curling Bonspiel News A total of $3,273 was raised in the new format established this year. Reducing the number of teams from 16 to 8 was unanimously approved by curlers and organizers. Curlers had more ice time with 8 end games instead of the former 6-end structure, less sitting around time and a shortened day. Congratulations to the winning team of Jim Wilson (skip), Debbie Wilson, Peter Kiss and Murray Young. Greg Geddis was the top pledge person, beating out Jim Heaphy by $8. Photos posted on our Facebook page!
Watch for details on the next Habitat build. Click here for photos of our completed 2009 straw bale home build project.
The Hastings-Prince Edward Habitat for Humanity's ReStore launched a unique Salvage Program three years ago with the help of a Shell Environmental Fund grant. It has been very successful and profitable for the ReStore and we are proud to find we now have the largest ReStore salvage operation in all of Canada. Quite an achievement for ReStore manager Rob Bradshaw and his team!
ReStore on the move! Come 2011, the Prince Edward-Hastings branch of Habitat for Humanity will be moving into a new $1.1-million Restore that will also house its offices. Prince Edward-Hastings MPP Leona Dombrowsky announced funding for the new facility in January to a small gathering at the Empire Theatre. The store will be funded through a three-way partnership between the federal and provincial governments and the local Habitat branch. Dombrowsky said each group would invest $366,000 toward the $1.1-million cost to complete the building. "This investment will help deliver valued community services, help create jobs, and stimulate our local economy," she said. Dombrowsky said the federal and provincial governments allowed non-profits across Canada to submit project ideas that would stimulate the economy in which they operate. She said the local Habitat for Humanity presented a convincing case, calling the Restore project "a very sound environmental initiative." "They met a very high bar," she said. "There was lots of competition for those not-for-profit stimulus dollars." The federal portion of the funds was made possible by the national infrastructure stimulus fund under Canada's economic action plan unveiled early last year. Ontario's portion of the funding is provided through the 2009 Ontario Budget-Confronting the Challenge: Building our Economic Future. Melanie Flynn, executive director for the Prince Edward-Hastings Habitat branch, said they would no longer be an agency that "provide ownership to others, but didn't have ownership of our own." She said the organization is currently leasing its Sidney Street ReStore building. The new building will allow them to make significant savings, she said. "The more we are able to keep from what we make in the store, the more houses we can build," she said. "The proceeds from the store then become one, two, three homes per year, whereas before that money would be directed into a lease or rent payment." Flynn said the lease on the current building will expire close to the new ReStore's scheduled completion date. Conveniently, the new building that we will be constructing will be done in spring 2011, it's perfect timing," she said. Flynn added the 10,000-square-foot building and office space won't be "bigger but better" than the current location. She said it will be more green and provide added services such as new pre-fabrication area, where the agency will work in conjunction with area high school students to construct houses in pieces. "We can now build better and faster to help more families," she said. The agency has already purchase land on Bell Boulevard, just east of Sidney Street, where the ReStore will be built. The new location places the store in the heart of one of Belleville's busiest strips, that will enhance its profile in the city, she said "We are strategically placed, where it's easy for our customers to come to the ReStore first, see if we have what they need, if we don't, they have Rona and Home Depot right there," she said. Flynn said getting the government portion of the funding for the building, is just the first of many hurdles, as they still have to raise $366,000 to cover their part of the bill.
Check out last year's build in Belleville in pictures through the Photo Gallery.
Click here to download FRAMEWORK, the official newsletter for Prince-Edward Hastings Habitat for Humanity.
ReStore Summer hours: Open Monday to Saturday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
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CHEERS!
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CHEERS! to the F.K. Morrow
Foundation for their $8,000 contribution to our Land Bank Program,
designed to raise funds (about $500,000) to purchase building lots within
our jurisdiction for future Habitat home builds. We are thankful for the support
the F.K. Morrow Foundation have shown in helping us provide affordable homes
for qualified low income members of our community.
Cheers! to the 2009 Bonspiel Prize Sponsors:
Waring House Gourmet
The Island Family Restaurant
County Blossoms
J.J.’s Texas Bar and Grill
The County Café and Wine Bar
Black River Cheese
Allison’s
Isaiah Tubbs - Restaurant on the Knoll
Blumen Gardens Bistro
By Chadsey’s Cairns Winery and Vineyards
Home Hardware
Schooners Fish and Chips
Muriel Brand
Books and Company
Cheers! To the National Sustainable Building Program Fund Contributors RBC Foundation, Genworth Financial Canada, MCAP Group of Companies and PMI Canada for their grant of $10,000 to Prince Edward-Hastings Habitat for Humanity. The grant is being provided to our affiliate so that 100% of it can be used to help the affiliate build to Energy Star, the “Best in Class” energy efficiency standard in house construction. The current Belleville build is built to Energy Star standards.
Cheers! To Home Depot Canada for a non-building grant of $3,840 to be applied against the purchase of record-keeping computer software for the Affiliate.
Cheers! To Realtors Care Foundation for a grant of $1,000 to be applied to the 2009 Habitat for Humanity home build.
Cheers! To the students, staff and parents of St. Theresa Secondary School, Belleville, who have raised $30,000 to date towards the 2008 Habitat home build in Belleville this Spring and Summer. St Theresa is leading the build project, the second highschool in the Quinte region to do so since 2003 and perhaps the only highschools to lead Habitat builds in Canada.
Cheers! To Advantage Stewart Travel, Bayview Mall Belleville, who donated air travel for Executive Director Melanie Flynn who joined over 45 others from across Canada in Habitat for Humanity Canada’s “dream team” for the 25th annual Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project May 11-16 in New Orleans. “We are so impressed by the work our local Habitat for Humanity is doing to help break the cycle of poverty in our community by providing decent, affordable housing,” said Lori Weir, Office Manager, Advantage Stewart Travel. “With New Orleans being such a popular travel destination it is our pleasure to do what we can in helping to rebuild the area by supporting Melanie with her travel arrangements,” she said.
Cheers! to the Quinte and District Real Estate Board agents who raised $9,946.09 for our next build through their annual summer golf tournament.
Cheers! to the Ontario Real Estate Association Foundation that provided $1,000 to the next home build.
Cheers! to the Trenval Business and Development Corporation (Eastern Ontario Development Program) for a $2,400 grant to help fund an Affiliate marketing initiative as part of a five-year growth plan.
Watch for details on the next Habitat build. Click here for photos of our completed 2009 straw bale home build project.
