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June, 2012  // Posts published in June, 2012

Posted by in Helping Hands, Volunteers | Comments Off on 6/9/12: OHL Volunteer Day

6/9/12: OHL Volunteer Day

6/9/12: OHL Volunteer Day

OK, we have a new time champ! Congratulations to the great group from OHL on Saturday in the King Arthur mobile home park in Riverside. They finished an entire unit in a little over 3 hours! Now we’ve done that before but never with a group this size. We had 14 people who were amazing. […]

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Posted by in Jurupa Valley, New Builds, Volunteers | Comments Off on 6/9/2012: Crestmore Paint Day

6/9/2012: Crestmore Paint Day

6/9/2012: Crestmore Paint Day

On this day, Habitat Riverside witnessed a local organization out in the community, working side-by-side with a Habitat family.  Union Bank and our trusty Habitat regulars were at our new build on Crestmore in Jurupa Valley painting trim, shelving and baseboards. Volunteer photographer John Gerson took a lot of pictures and project manager Steve Pepenella came […]

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Posted by in Community Events | Comments Off on 6/9/12: Habitat at the Health Fair

6/9/12: Habitat at the Health Fair

6/9/12: Habitat at the Health Fair

It was a wonderful day at Riverside Community Hospital’s Health & Fitness Fair!  Mayor Loveridge stopped by to show his support.  Community Outreach Habitat ReStore staff Kristii MacEwen and UCR federal work study intern Lazaro Cardenas manned a booth at Riverside Community Hospital’s Health and Fitness Fair where there were Kid’s Fun & Fitness Zone, free health […]

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6/6/12: Fresh And Easy Volunteers

6/6/12: Fresh And Easy Volunteers

Fresh and Easy fielded an awesome team on Wednesday to help out Margueree Wyrick and her granddaughter Janice by painting the exterior of their mobile home in the Santiago Estates mobile home park in Moreno Valley. They got right down to business and made short work of the job. Janice was out there side by […]

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Olivarez Family Receives Their Keys!

Olivarez Family Receives Their Keys!

Connie Olivarez and daughter Christal Espinoza recently received the keys to their Habitat home and got a look at their new home, which has two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a backyard. Connie has worked for Merry Maids for 25 years and Christal just graduated from a community college and has applied to multiple colleges for […]

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6/2/12: Spackle & Caulk Day

6/2/12: Spackle & Caulk Day

Our Habitat volunteers answered the bat signal once again!  Our cry for help went out on May 31st and just in a few hours we had 25 volunteers ready to go for June 2nd.  5 of these heroes volunteered at Crestmore, our new build.  Alongside the Dominguez family (future Habitat homeowners purchasing Crestmore), the Nolasco […]

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Posted by in Helping Hands, Volunteers | Comments Off on 6/2/12: Helping Hands Day

6/2/12: Helping Hands Day

6/2/12: Helping Hands Day

We had a fantastic group of volunteers painting at King Arthur mobile home park in Riverside on Saturday. A ton of trim work, but this team made it look like child’s play. We completed the entire project just as the sun was breaking through, well before noon. To transform a mobile home in such a […]

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Posted by in Community Events | Comments Off on 6/2/12: Neighborhood Conference

6/2/12: Neighborhood Conference

6/2/12: Neighborhood Conference

Saturday was a wonderful day in Downtown Riverside!  The Neighborhood Conference was very well planned. Those who attended were involved with workshops, interactive booths, relationship building, enhancing social capital, and children’s activities freebies.  Habitat Riverside and the ReStore saw a great response from the crowd and our Bank of America summer intern Franay Cordova did […]

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