A New Home of Their Own
November 02,2005
Blair Shiver
Eight-year-old Rebecca King said she’s going to paint her bedroom blue.
She painted it blue once before, but her family had to move out before she got to finish and paint angels on the wall.
After being shuffled from one rental home to another before the trailer in which they were living finally sold to developers, Rebecca, her younger brother Trey, her baby sister Allison and her parents, David and Rebecca King are being forced to split two rooms in her grandparents’ house in St. Joe Beach.
Their story tugged at the heartstrings of the Habitat for Humanity (HFH) of Gulf County Board, but more importantly, the family’s circumstances qualified them for a new Habitat home.
Read more....Habitat Accepting Applications for First Home
The Star
7/6/2005
The groundwork has been completed. Now the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity is prepared to begin to put sinew and sweat to its first home.
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