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The Huron Expositor • December 6, 2006 Page 25
Huron County Habitat for Humanity receives $85,000
Susan Hundertmark
A Trillium Foundation grant of
$85,000 will allow the Huron
County Habitat. for Humanity to
hire an executive director and begin
plans for a ReStore, says Habitat
chair Paul Dyck.
"It's a huge hand -up for us. We're
so excited because this adds a level
of sustainability to a charitable
organization," says Dyck.
"If we were having to raise
$85,000 one dollar at a time, we
wouldn't be in a position to do this
for a number of years," he says.
The two-year grant will include
,ez
spending $40,000 the first year hir-
ing an executive director who can
create a business plan and start up
the ReStore and oversee fundrais-
ing.
A ReStore, which raises funds for
Habitat for Humanity groups, sells
recycled building materials, such as
end -of -lot materials from building
supply businesses such as Home
Depot.
Materials can include recycled
kitchen cupboards, doors, windows
and used appliances and furniture.
Dyck says the Huron Habitat
group is still determining the best
location for a ReStore in Huron
County.
"Clinton is central but it's not nec-
essarily the best customer base. It's
too early to speculate where it will
be," he says.
Dyck says the Stratford Habitat
group's first ReStore was located in
the small village of Wartburg but
the group moved it to Stratford
recently.
"We're trying to learn from other
affiliates- so we don't make the same
mistakes," he says.
The second year of funding will
pay to open up the ReStore.
Dyck says that while Huron's
Habitat group has only been in
operation for one and a half years as.
an affiliate, it has built two houses
in Clinton and in Wingham - and is
set to build again in Hensall in the
spring of 2007.
"We've gotten verbal pats on the
back from the Canadian Habitat
organization," he says, adding that
Huron is a small affiliate by popula-
tion but a large one by geography.
Dyck adds that as the ReStore
becomes more profitable, Huron's
Habitat group will be able to hire a
manager for the ReStore. But, until
then, the executive director will run
the ReStore.
As well, he says, volunteers will
be sought to work at the ReStore.
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