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Please consider joining our sponsor team!
List your business here and get your name on our truck too!
Contact Joe at jconnell@pdxrestore.org
Visit our site for more information: www.pdxrestore.org.
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Our Habitat Affiliates |
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Portland HFH
Our affiliates have built over 200 homes in the Portland Metro Area.
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Joining our mailing list gets you in on deals and hot items. It also helps you see what the work that we do at the ReStore contributes to. To date we have raised over $450,000 for Habitat, our goal is to raise at least $100,000 this year. | |
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Help us expand our newsletter
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Now that we have an email newsletter with all the bells and whistles, we're able to track how many people open it, forward it, and click on our links. This is not only great fun to look at, but it helps to know what interests folks and how we're doing with it all. For example we know that about 42% of those we send this to open it, which by industry standards is terrific. We also know that a lot of people are checking out Classique Floors and Metro Paint, which is great for them.
We're finding that items we post in this newsletter sell fast, and that our sales and donations are increasing all the time. Now our challenge is to increase our mailing list. So here's a great way to show your support for us: Please pass this newsletter on to others! If you're part of the HFH network, pass it on to staff and volunteers. If you're part of another similar organization, please pass it on to your list and encourage them to join. They'll have an opportunity to sign up if they're interested, and of course to unsubscribe any time.
This is a great way to support the ReStore. So pass on the word! Use the "forward" feature of in your email or browser, or click on the "forward email" link at the bottom of the newsletter.
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| Hot New Items |
Just in a pair of beautiful Pella sliders! We don't have a price on them yet but they will definetely be priced to save you money and they will move fast! Don't hesitate.
Brand new still in the box double sink vanity. Cherry cabinet and black marble top. $700!! this includes the sinks! 
Pallets and pallets of new Briggs toilets. $30 each, in the box and ready for business.
Lots and lots of file cabinets. Big ones, small ones, vertical and lateral, and even a couple of sliding door versions. Any cabinet $15.
New, in the box, medicine cabinets, again we have pallets of them. We have a few styles but the base model is simple and cheap, just $10 each. Some of the others are $15 to $40.
ADA grab bars. Not the cheap press tin kind, these are heavy duty and well made. $5 per foot!
Certainteed roof shingles. New in package, about 6 square. These are Granite Grey 50 year shingles. $8 per bundle.
All joist hangers and Simpson ties on sale for 10 cents each. At this price any builder should just come down and clean us out of them! Save them for your next project, or next three projects; it will be worth it.
Various 5 gallon buckets of adhesives, all $10 a bucket.
Plus all of our usual wonderful deals!
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News from the Portland Metro Area ReStore
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This past couple of weeks Portland HFH has had a few wall raising and two home dedications for Habitat Families that have helped us here in the ReStore. As many of you know Habitat families are required to put in 500 hours of "sweat equity" working for thier home. Many families choose to do at least some of their hours here at the ReStore.
On May 11th Portland HFH handed over the keys to the Amei and Abdalla families homes! Seven children will be housed in this duplex. It was wonderful to see them all running about their new yard and home. It was wonderful too, to know that the work we do here at the ReStore helped to build those homes; and that each of those families worked si de by side with us here at the ReStore to make it all happen.
On April 27th we raised the first walls for Carrie Christian and her son Daniel, the Hoang family, and the Wasongollo family. All three of these families are familiar faces to us here at the ReStore. It was great to see the first walls of their new homes rise up. Before long they will see the roof go on, the carpet down, and will have the keys to their new home; joining the more than 200 Habitat homeowner families here in Portland.
As Director of the ReStore I try to attend as many of these dedications and wallraisings as I can. They are powerful reminders of why we do what we do here. We help people change their lives, and the lives of their children, by helping them to own a decent affordable home. Our goal is to increase the work we do here, selling more goods, helping more families. Thanks for your help in this, and for your continued support.
Joe Connell
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We are looking for a volunteer Tuesday Driver and Volunteer Friday Assistants.Our Donation Crew is an integral part of the Habitat for Humanity Restore and we are currently expanding our scheduled pick-ups dates to accommodate our growth. A typical shift is approximately 5 hours. These positions require the ability to lift at least fifty pounds and experience and comfort driving a 28 foot box truck (Standard Transmission). Moving experience and people skills a plus .
The Greener Homes and Gardens (and Biofuels too) Convention will be at the Expo Center this Saturday (19) & Sunday (20). a community-inspired event, focusing on sustainable homes, gardens, and renewable energy/fuels and resources. The expo will feature workshops, interactive exhibits, sustainable product & service showcases, seminars, & lots of family entertainment. We have included NEW features such as the expanded Biofuels & Alternative Transportation Show and The Self-SustainAbility Forum to this year's show.The event will feature 100+ green living vendors, seminars, and interactive workshops that provide exciting, educational, hands-on approaches to discovering sustainable choices in the garden and home.
The SustainAbility forum will focus on preparedness, self-reliance, relocalization, and address topics such as neighborhood networking, alternative energy options, rainwater collection, edible gardens, food preservation, composting, and permaculture.
What: Greener Homes and Gardens and Biofuels too! Expo When: Sat May 19, 10AM-6PM, Sun May 20, 11AM-5PM. Where: Portland Expo Center, Portland, OR Who: Produced by the ReDirect Guide, a benefit for the ReBuilding Center Cost: $3 suggested donation Web site: http://www.GreenerHomesAndGardens.com
Volunteering with the ReStore is a great way to be a part of Habitat. You can come on your own, bring a business, church or community group, or the family. Many of the future Habitat homeowners work their sweat equity hours here so you can work with them and get to know them here. Here are just a few of the volunteer opportunities available now:
- Customer Service Assistant
- Office Assistant
- Truck Driver
- Pickup Assistant
- Maintenance
- Marketing
- Public Relations
Visit our website to learn more about volunteering at the ReStore.
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| Old House Fair |
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The Architectural Heritage Center/Bosco-Milligan Foundation
Saturday, June 23, 2007
10:00am - 5:00pm
701 SE Grand Avenue @ Alder Street
Admission: FREE!
One of the biggest gatherings of old house expertise in the Northwest will take place at the Architectural Heritage Center's Old House Fair on June 23. Over 25 vendors will showcase their goods and services and answer your questions about old home renovation and maintenance.
This free public event will include numerous how-to demonstrations and education programs pertaining to period-authentic renovation.
The Old House Fair will take place in the Architectural Heritage Center and on the adjacent block of SE Alder street between SE Grand and MLK, Jr. Blvd on Portland's central eastside.
Contact: Peggy Moretti at 503 231-7264 or peggym@VisitAHC.org | |
