The Pacer

Issue date: 3/27/07 Section: Campus News

The UTM rifle team recently helped out Habitat for Humanity in Greenfield. The team worked very hard to help with the project house, but also had a lot of fun.

The UTM rifle team traveled to Greenfield on Saturday, March 24, to help work on a Weakley County Habitat for Humanity home under construction there.

Team members were put to work pulling wire, nailing up braces underneath the house, putting siding on the house and cleaning up the yard. Rifle team members include Jaymi Collar, Robbit Burrows, Chandra Braun, Kendra King, Stacy Loyd, Heather Tillson, Kyle Beauchamp, Michelle Castle, Jennie Fladebo, Dan Rebhan and Wrenda Curd. The team is coached by Bob Beard.

"Habitat for Humanity was a meaningful experience for me because I got to help build a house for a needy family," said rifle team member Kendra King, an Animal Science major from Knoxville. "The team covered one side of the house with siding, pulled wire in the house and did many other things."

According to Habitat for Humanity International's Web site, www.habitat.org, the group "is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate substandard housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action."

Habitat builds or remodels houses in partnership with families in need. Construction often occurs with donated materials and labor, and the group helps each family get an affordable mortgage on a home once it is completed. Habitat has built more than 225,000 houses around the world, according to the Web site.

For more information on the Weakley County chapter of Habitat, e-mail habitat2@utm.edu.

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