The bus careened toward the Restore, our 3rd Day set to begin. There were tiles, there were asphalt shingles, and there were rugs, oh so many rugs. We started by hardily smashing furniture sets with sledge hammers. Half of the group quickly moved to the Restore’s secondary warehouse to dispose of broken pallets. One...
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A Pile of Carpets, or a Pile of Fun
Today, we went back to the Restore. Most of us moved carpets and stacked large boxes in the alternate warehouse for most of the day. Although, a few of us remained in the store’s main warehouse to help organize and restock the inventory. We jammed out to some sweet tunes on a boombox, and...
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From Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust
Day 2: Today we visited Habitat For Humanity’s Restore Center, and it was an extremely different experience than Palmyra Cove. We started off the day with a tour of the center by Mike. Mike showed us where we would be working and then we split up into groups. Some went to clean up carpeting,...
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Cleaning the Edge of the Delaware!
Today the Habitat for Humanity group ventured into the depths of the woods and shore that surround the Delaware River. We collected lots of empty bottles, Styrofoam cups, miscellaneous trash that had washed ashore, and even a rubber duck! We all had a blast and can’t wait to travel on the ship of fun...
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Assembly Day for 2016 IL
We all met for the first time. Present were AJ and Brad, Mia and Eli, Alex and Katy, Ian and David, Charles, Edward and Josh, oh, and of course, Newman and Thomson. We got our marching orders, scheduled blogging and snack, and braced for our first adventure at the romantic and brackish Palmyra Cove. Maybe the...
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