Wednesday, May 1, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Habitat breaks ground on two homes
More than 50 youth from
Heart of Oregon Corps
YouthBuild and the Sisters
High School construction
class will help with Sisters
Habitat for Humanity9s next
two homes. Last week, the
future Habitat homeown-
ers celebrated the beginning
of the building process by
breaking ground at the home-
sites in the Village Meadows
neighborhood.
The Likens family will
be working alongside the
Heart of Oregon Corps
YouthBuild crew. YouthBuild
Program Director Kara
Johnson told the crowd that
40 youth will be in the pro-
gram throughout the summer
and many will be working
on the house at the Village
Meadows neighborhood.
She introduced Construction
Lead Joey Scotten who
will work with the students
and Habitat9s Construction
Manager Darleene Snider.
The YouthBuild students
have been spending the past
two months in a construction
class earning their NCCER
Certificate and will be out at
the job site this month. This
home will be the third home
to be built in partnership with
the two organizations.
Heart of Oregon Corps
is a nonprofit organization
invested in inspiring and
empowering change in the
lives of Central Oregon youth
through jobs, education, and
stewardship. Their program-
ming creates pathways out
of poverty while stimulating
regional economic growth.
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Kastle, Seth, Araya and Malika Likens dig in on their future home site.
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They apply a <work-earn-
learn= model that invests in
local young people, many
of whom come from disad-
vantaged backgrounds, to
prepare them for the work-
force and to encourage their
self-sufficiency.
The YouthBuild students
won9t be the only ones work-
ing on a Habitat house this
spring. Sisters High School9s
construction students will
build the walls of the home
for the Palmer family. They
will be under the direction of
Construction Teacher Tony
Cosby. Once the walls are
built, they will raise the walls
with the family. Several of
Cosby9s students attended the
groundbreaking event and
shared how much they enjoy
the construction class and
their teacher.
<This is really a fun stu-
dent project,= Cosby told
the crowd. <It9s great that
they get a connection to the
community and Habitat for
Humanity.=
For the past seven years,
Cosby9s students have built
walls for Habitat homes.
<The process of becom-
ing a homeowner can some-
times take up to two years,=
Sisters Habitat9s Executive
Director Sharlene Weed said.
<Families go through an
application process and once
selected earn sweat equity
hours by volunteering at the
Thrift Store, ReStore or con-
struction site.=
Once groundbreaking hap-
pens they are able to work
alongside the construction
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Krista, Nick, and Nate Palmer broke ground on a new Habitat homesite.
crew w h e t h e r i t 9s t h e
YouthBuild team or the
Habitat volunteers and staff.
Sisters-area residents
interested in Habitat home-
ownership or the repair
program can review the
qualification guidelines
on their website, www.
sistershabitat.org/housing-
programs. Youth interested
in working with Heart of
Oregon can visit www.
heartoforegon.org/programs.
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