The Rochester Duplex build has started again on a very limited basis.  Those on the build site now have been selected for their skills to perform specific tasks in preparation for sub contractors who will be doing the electrical, plumbing and heating work.  We will begin Saturday builds with volunteers as soon as these tasks have been completed.

Please don’t get discouraged if you see activity around the site – we still need you!

Thank you for your continued support!!

Volunteering, in general is a great thing to do – great for your soul and great for your community. Volunteering for ReStore is exceptional in that you never know what you are going to see or who you are going to meet!

From kangaroos to a guy playing music on a washboard! One of the first customers I helped at ReStore was a very nice, polite woman looking at a dining room table. We figured out how to remove the leaf – and that the mechanism needed oil – and then proceeded to chat about the store. The next thing I know, she is playing the antique organ sitting on the floor for sale! She has been back many times since to play for us and the customers. Her husband has joined in playing the washboard. It is a definitely something you do not hear every day and well worth a trip to ReStore just to hear, not to mention all the neat stuff for sale!!

Another interesting customer at ReStore is the curator of the Rochester Zoo; he comes in now and then looking for the odd cabinet or other furnishings for the zoo. The one evening I was not there, he comes in with a baby kangaroo! Where else can you volunteer – or work for that matter – where you could have experiences like this?

Volunteering for Habitat for Humanity can be much more than swinging a hammer. Check it out!!

Michael A Webster

Volunteer Coordinator and Technical Consultant