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Last Updated: 03/18/2005
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Collegiate Challenge brings spring break to
Rockbridge County
College students work on the Habitat house that will be Dorothy Spinner's (Photo by Tiffany Todd)
By Tiffany Todd March 18, 2005 Students from New York University and Rutgers University are spending their spring break in Rockbridge County this week to build two homes as part of Habitat for Humanity’s “Collegiate Challenge.” In addition, Mt. St. Mary’s College, Michigan State University, Colby College, Cornell College, and Convent of the Sacred Heart High School in New York City are also participating in the Collegiate Challenge, which started on Feb. 28 and ends April 2. The 30 college students here this week are helping build two houses in Buena Vista. The Rockbridge Area Habitat for Humanity hopes to complete five houses this year, with three to be built in Buena Vista and two slated for construction in Lexington. The organization is currently working in the first year of a two-year grant that stipulates eight houses must be completed within a two-year period. None of the eight houses has been completed yet, but Warren Meehan, who works with Rockbridge Area Habitat for Humanity, says he expects five houses to be completed and ready to close in August. |
