(WSB photos by Ellen Cedergreen)
We’ve told you before about Rebuilding Together Seattle, which, often with civic-minded businesses as partners, musters volunteers to help fix up homes for those who desperately need the help. In the span of one week, the group is involved with two projects helping local veterans. The first one happened this past Saturday in West Seattle – veteran John Barth (above) was the beneficiary of work on everything from his deck to a garage door, interior painting, and new kitchen appliances. With the partnership of Sears, 17 volunteers swarmed the home to get it all done, including Tony and Emily:
Another volunteer, Doug, told us he was helping because he’s an Iraq War veterans who wants to help other vets – he framed a new garage door despite Saturday’s heavy rain:
Rebuilding Together volunteers even had to blow dry the walls in order to get the paint on over the primer, because of the water-heavy air:
Volunteers even got John’s garden weeded – that’s where volunteer project manager and general contractor Mike Santopolo is standing in this photo:
Mike’s been volunteering since the ’90s, to help disabled veterans who need home improvements.
Meantime, a separate Rebuilding Together Seattle project to help veterans is coming up this Thursday: More than 100 volunteers from RTS and The Home Depot will work at the homes of three vets – one in North Burien, one on Beacon Hill, and one in Shoreline. They’ve dubbed the project “Veterans Rebuilding Day.” (The official Veterans Day is coming up one week from this Thursday.)
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