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Police Department Helps One of Their Own Get a New Roof
By Lauren White, RCS Reporter. A 911 dispatcher no longer needs to use her tax refund to pay for a new roof thanks to the generosity of her coworkers and local roofing company. As a 911 dispatcher in Ocean City, New Jersey, a mom of two, and battling breast cancer, Amber Adoranto ...
Roof Repaired for 80-Year-Old Woman
By Lauren White, RCS Reporter. With snow entering a Michigan resident’s home, a local company pitched in to raise funds to repair the hole. Anyone with a roof over their heads knows the comfort of being warm, dry, and protected from the elements. This is especially true during the winter when ...
Kelly Roofing’s Holiday Outreach: Donating the Materials and Labor for a Deserving Local Family
Protecting Naples roofs with care, consistency, innovation and using expertise for the good of hurricane survivors. Kelly Roofing, a roofing contractor dedicated to serving their industry and state with care, consistency and communication, gives away a free roof to a local family in need every holiday season. This holiday season, Gloria and ...
GCP Applied Technologies Teams Up with Sweenor Builders on Habitat for Humanity Project
Product donation provides weather-protected home for Rhode Island cancer survivor. GCP Applied Technologies (NYSE:GCP), a leading global provider of construction products technologies, is pleased to announce that they partnered with Sweenor Builders Incorporated to donate roofing product for their 2019 Habitat for Humanity project in South Kingston, Rhode Island. For years, Sweenor ...
Recycled Throw-away Plastics Build Homes
By Lauren White, RCS Reporter. A Kenyan scientist has taken recycling to a whole new level. In Kenya, Hope Mwanake, an environmental scientist, has found a way to convert plastic and glass waste into roof tiles and other construction materials. Kenya is facing a plastic pollution crisis. In Gilgil, one of ...
New Roof Gifted to Man in Need
By Lauren White, RCS Reporter. The 90-year-old home received a free, new roof, just in time for the holidays. In Lowell, North Carolina, Kenny White still lives in the home where he grew up. Shortly after he was born, his grandparents adopted him. Kenny told the Gaston Gazette, “My parents didn’t ...
New Roofs Donated to Six Different Families
By Lauren White, RCS Reporter. Companies work together to replace roofs for those in need. Six families in Marshalltown, Iowa will receive new roofs on their homes between now and the end of 2020, at no cost to them. Feller Roofing partnered with GAF and Habitat for Humanity of Iowa to ...
Roofer Tricks Woman Into Accepting Free Roof Repair
By Lauren White, RCS Reporter. A company raffle grants a grandmother of four with a new roof. The roof on Jeanette MacDonald’s home in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia continued to deteriorate. Jeremy Locke, the owner of Locke’s Roofing and Construction, noticed her roof and knew she needed a new one. ...
Woman Battling Stage 4 Cancer Gets Christmas Miracle
Woman was chosen out of 1,000 applicants for the donation. Leontyne Williamson and her family have lived in the Orlando area for generations. Battling Stage 4 Cancer, she is living in her Grandmother’s home - the same Grandmother who she cared for who also had cancer. With a history of cancer ...
Small, Minority- and Women-Owned Construction Businesses Supported in Tacoma
By Lauren White, RCS Reporter. Tacoma Public Schools has found a way to encourage inclusivity in the construction industry. “I started this company as a single mom with a 13-week-old baby and a 6-year-old. I didn’t have the opportunity to fail. I jumped in full force. And haven’t regretted it since,” ...
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