Media Release for the week of May 22, 2009 – May 29, 2009

HABITAT TO BREAK GROUND ON THIRD SPANISH FORK HOMEHabitat for Humanity of Utah County will break ground on its third Spanish Fork home on Saturday, May 30, 2009 at noon. All interested community members are invited to attend. Lunch will be served. The two-story, five bedroom home will be located at 1997 East 1180 South, Spanish Fork, and is being built with Isileli and Michelle Tukuafu and their seven children.

COME LEARN HOW TO WEATHERIZE & DECORATE YOUR HOMEA free home maintenance class will be held Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. at the Habitat ReStore (626 North Freedom Blvd., in Provo). The class topics will be weatherization and home decorating. The class is part of a five session course sponsored locally by Community Action Services and Food Bank and Habitat for Humanity of Utah County. The one hour classes are held monthly on the last Thursday of each month. All interested community members are invited to attend.

Habitat for Humanity of Utah County is a non-profit, ecumenical organization and is one of more than 2,300 affiliates of Habitat for Humanity International. The local affiliate is committed to eliminating poverty housing and homelessness in the county by building or renovating simple, decent homes with area residents in need of affordable shelter. Affiliated in 1991 by a group of local community members that were concerned about substandard housing in the county, the organization has built or renovated 34 homes providing more than 55 adults and 116 children safe and affordable housing and a stable home environment. The affiliate is currently finishing a home in Orem. For more information, please call (801) 344-8527 or look online at www.habitatuc.org.