COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

SOLUTION CENTER DONATION

Each year the Home Builders Association selects a local charity for the Christmas Holiday season. The HBA Christmas committee decided to collect items or cash donations for the Solutions Center in Fond du Lac. The Solutions Center offers innovative programs that provide women with support throughout the complex process of leaving violent relationships and building safe futures. For survivors of domestic violence, The Solutions Center offers services that help them and their children move toward safe and independent violence-free lives. Their request this year was to have paper products, laundry soap, personal hygiene items, etc. A cash donation was also given to the Solutions Center along with the items pictured.

Homes of our Own

Area students are part of “Homes of our Own” program

On May 3-5, seventeen Fond du Lac and Dodge County schools and over 900 students participated in the “Homes of our Own” program, sponsored by the Home Builders Association of Fond du Lac and Dodge Counties, Inc. and the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).

With the help and generosity of numerous presenters (HBA members) and Chairperson Mike Wirtz, this program continues to be a great success.

What is Homes of Our Own?

A classroom video will introduce students to a tree with a dream and a destiny – a tree who wants to become a home. This delightfully amusing 10-minute videotape is narrated by the tree itself as it is converted into lumber, the world’s most environmentally compatible building material.

From forest to sawmill to building site, the tree guides students through the important key role wood plays in providing us with shelter. Along the way, students will learn how a house is built; why wood is a renewable resource, and how wise resource management ensures that we will always have forests and enough trees for new homes.

A tree sapling and coloring book are given to the students by the Home Builders Association.

Because of the program’s success, “Homes of our Own” will continue next year. For information on how your school can become involved for the 2012-2013 school year, please call 920-922-9067.