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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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Our Habitat Affiliates |
Willamette West HFH
Mt Hood HFH
Evergreen HFH
Our affiliates have built over 200 homes in the Portland Metro Area.
Check out their links to to learn more about the great work they do. |
| Our Business Sponsors |
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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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| Hot New Items |
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PAINT--A wide variety of colors.
HURRY, HURRY, HURRY, before our famous Oregon rains return. Time to get to those painting projects you've been putting off. Fall is just around the corner (sorry to be reminding you).
36" pre-hung Brand New Milgard Doors
fiberglass-clad with leaded beveled glass. A great deal at $350.
Clear Vertical Grain (CVG) Fir Half-Light Double Doors. $120 with hardware.
High Efficiency 3-Bulb Fluorescent Lights.
Each fixture has three 32-watt bulbs that produce the same amount of light as a normal 40-watt bulb. $45.
ADA (handicapped accessible) Approved Shower.
Fiberglass stall with grab bar and seat. $300. 
We have Lots of Flooring! Boxes and boxes of it. Pergo, engineered laminate, and solid wood. A great deal at $20 - $40 per box.
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News from the Portland Metro Area ReStore
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Each fall the Oregon Remodelers Association hosts the Tour of Homes. This is a wonderful event where the public gets to see some of the premier remodeling projects in the Portland Metro area.
The ReStore has signed up this year to provide the volunteers to take tickets at the homes. This is a terrific opportunity for us to partner up with a very high profile event and get some great free advertising and marketing. Marketing for the event includes about 1.6 million printed pieces, as well as radio and TV. There is also a supplement that gets put in the Oregon Home magazine and reaches about 30,000 people. We will be listed in all these advertisements as the volunteer group. ORA also pays a small fee for this, $1500, to sweeten the deal. The other opportunity for us is that we get to put out our brochures and flyers about the ReStore and Habitat at all the tables.
What is expected from us is that we come up with about 100 volunteers who are willing to commit to a shift of 3 1/2 hours at one of the homes. They will take tickets, ask folks to wear booties in the homes, and of course tell folks about the ReStore.
We will need all the help we can get recruiting volunteers for this. We will do all the organizing but we do need help from the affiliates to get the word out to all of the Habitat volunteers throughout the Metro area. We will also need all of our supporters to help out. If you love the ReStore and want to see us thrive and get our name out there more, then here is a chance to help make that happen. You also get a free pair of tickets to the Tour of Homes for helping out.
More details will follow in the next newsletter but meanwhile if you would like to help us start organizing, or just have some questions, please feel free to contact either Shane at shane@pdxrestore.org or Joe at jconnell@pdxrestore.org.
Joe Connell
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As you all know the ReStore has a very small staff and we rely heavily upon volunteers to make it all possible. We are truly a volunteer driven organization. And so of course we always need more volunteers.
Please consider supporting the work of Habitat by volunteering at the ReStore!
Our present needs are for:
- Driver Assistants - our Driver Assistants go out with the truck to help navigate, load and unload, and help the driver backup. You don't need special skills, just a willingness to help and a strong back.
- Backup Drivers - most of our drivers are on a regular shift but of course everyone gets sick, goes on vacation, or just needs a break now and then. So we need folks that can fill in at those times. Drivers must be able to drive a large box truck and have a clean driving record, and also must have a strong back.
We also always need help out in the store from individuals or groups. Let us know if your workplace, church or school has programs for volunteering that we could invite to join us!
Visit our website to learn more about volunteering at the ReStore.
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| Meet Cinthia, Bank of America Summer Intern |
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For eight weeks this summer Cinthia Hernandez has worked full-time at the ReStore as one of two Bank of America paid interns. Ryan Leverton, the other intern, worked part time, divided between the ReStore and a building site. Bank of America supports 11 young interns in the greater Portland area. Cinthia and Ryan spent their first week with HFH on site during a building blitz, at which three houses were totally constructed. A good, albeit intense way to find out what Habitat is all about!
Before this summer Cinthia knew about HFH through friends of hers whose families had Habitat-built homes. Even so, she thought the ReStore "was going to be like Home Depot." "I like working here. I've never worked as a cashier before. It's cool that they have this store."
Cinthia is a senior at Jefferson High School. All through high school she has been active with the Oregon Leadership Institute (OLI), a program of the Council for Hispanic Advancement. During the school year she works with middle school students in a weekly after-school program that OLI sponsors. It was her OLI coordinator who encouraged her to apply for the B of A internship.
Cinthia has two younger brothers, 14 and 6. Her father works in construction and her mother is a supervisor at a food processing company. Her career goals include law school, although she feels practicing law would be too boring. Instead she has in mind to work for either the FBI or the CIA. |
| Metro publishes a new Toolkit: Construction Salvage & Recycling Directory
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 The 2007-08 edition of Metro's indispensable Toolkit is now available. The sturdy 100-page guide lists more than 100 nearby recycling sites. Contractors, developers, architects, and property owners can save money and help conserve resources when they reuse and recycle construction and demolition debris. An interactive search version of Metro's guide (at www.metro-region.org/toolkit) helps find the closest, and most appropriate, recycler. In the event that information in the Toolkit is no longer current, call Metro Recycling Information at (503) 234-3000.
According to the Toolkit, local contractors disposed of approximately 250,000 tons of construction and demolition debris in 2005. Typical waste from construction includes wood (40%), drywall (10%), roofing (10%), carpet (8%), rubble (8%), metal (5%), plus smaller amounts of plastic, cardboard, paper, insulation, and yard trimmings. Metro estimates that 60 percent of this material could be reused or recycled.
Portland is in the forefront of the green building movement, which encourages deconstruction and materials reuse. A voluntary rating system identifies projects playing a leading role in expanding the green building movement
Next month the newsletter will feature an article on the U.S. Green Building Council's green building rating system, LEED ( Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design). Portland currently has the most LEED-certified buildings per capita in the country. |
| SHOES, SHOES, AND MORE SHOES! For Sale on Saturdays from 10 to 4. |
 
Our first Saturday selling shoes in our basement was a big success. We sold almost 100 pairs! But we still have lots of pairs left, and we need to MOVE THEM OUT. This is your chance to get high quality specialty sneakers (not knock-offs) for just $25 a pair. They come in several different styles and colors. These shoes sell for $80-140 online, and are designed for driving as well as for normal daily use.
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August 2007
