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O ctober 12. 2011
East County Habitat Builds Homes
Blazers team
up with other
volunteers
The Portland Trail Blazers and
corporate partner W ells Fargo
teamed up with Habitat for Hu­
manity to tip off the Home Team
Challenge' in Gresham.
A team o f 150 v o lu n te ers
■L maM
worked together last month to
begin the framing and fencing for
eight houses, which will become
home to over 40 people. It was the
largest one-day build in Habitat's
30-year history.
"The Habitat program works
because we don't have to pay
people to build these homes," said
Habitat's Executive Director Steve
M essinetti. "We sell these homes
to families at our cost. Thanks to
the donations that we get from
folks like Wells Fargo and the Trail Retired Portland Trail Blazers and current team ambassadors Terry Porter (left) and Jerome Kersey pitch in to help build a home for the
Blazers, we are able to provide the non-profit Habitat for Humanity.
family with a zero percent interest
m ortgage to make it affordable for
the life o f their loan."
Am ong the volunteers were
Trail Blazers Head Coach Nate
M cM illan, his coaching staff, and
team am bassadors Terry Porter,
Jerome Kersey and Dale Schlueter.
"The Trail Blazers mission is to
make it better, helping kids and fami­
lies live, learn and play in the com­
munity," said Porter. "Wells Fargo
has always been very good partner
of ours, and they've done a great job
helping us work with Habitat for
Humanity on this project."
NEW
First Two
Weeks of
NBA Sliced
E A S Y & F U N TO S H O P • S E N S IB L Y
P R IC E D
LO CALLY O W N ED & O PE R ATED
The NBA announced Monday
that it has canceled the first two
weeks of the 2011-12 regular season
because a new collective bargain­
ing agreement has not been reached
with the National Basketball Play­
ers Association. This cancellation
includes all games originally sched­
uled to be played through Nov. 14,
including four home games for the
Portland Trail Blazers.
“Despite extensive efforts, we
have not been able to reach a new
agreement with the players’ union
that allows all 30 teams to be able to
compete for a championship while
fairly compensating our players,”
NBA Deputy Commissioner Adam
Silver said.
Refunds plus interest are avail­
able for all NBA season-ticket hold­
ers for all preseason and regular-
season games that are canceled.