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Dining tables for Katrina victims project
I want to let all you creekers know about a project I have become involved in.It is to create and deliver to New Orleans 150 dining room tables for Katrina victims.
This project came about because of 2 people Jim Moose and his wife Sherry. Jim heard a story about a woman moving into a new Habitat house with all donated furniture that was in tears because she now owned a dining table after 3 years with nothing. This was the seed for Jim's idea.
The table Jim designed is based on a design that was used in the past to be broken down and loaded into a Conestoga wagon. It is held together
with pegs and breaks down into a 3" high pile (for shipping)
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This is the table.
The next thing Jim did was put a small article in the local paper and call a meeting. Well most of the town (it seems) turned out. That was about 3 weeks ago.
Donations of money and volunteers started rolling in. It has been amazing.
The next big break was Harry Reithmiller donating his shop to build table "kits" Harry owns a stair tread making company. Jim then ordered 6300 BF of red oak. An all volunteer crew has turned out 150 table "kits" that can be built by most anyone.
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This is gluing up table top "halves"
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Here are the finished "kits"
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Habitat Owners are not Free Loaders
Tony, do yourself a favor and learn more about Habitat before you vent next time. Habitat owners have to buy their homes. In the early days of Habitat here in my hometown our biggest problem was finding candidates that had a good enough work history to qualify. We did and last I knew not one mortgage has been foreclosed. True they get a bargain, but they pay for what they get.
I'm sorry for your loss in the hurricane. Did you have flood insurance? If not, why not? With all the FEMA money that was being handed out home come you didn't get yours?
This is my vent.