Support those who support Habitat   Women Build Homes with the Corona Family Alto Vineyards Amasong Beaumont Alignment Plus BridalU.net Cooper's Hawk Winery Corkscrew English Hedgerow Friar Tuck Furrow Vineyard Chef Benjamin Graves Herriott's Rentals Kickapoo Creek Winery Lynfred Winery, Inc. Mackinaw Valley Vineyard Macy's Michelle's Bridal National Council of Negro Women, Champaign County Section Printec Sleepy Creek Vineyards El Toro II Traveling Vineyard Women of Grace Community Church Wells Fargo Housing Foundation Z Entertainment ReStore sponsors Champaign Carpet and Tile Champaign Do-It-Best Hardware Champaign Estate Sales Champaign Telephone Company Dodds Company Empty Tomb Flooring Surfaces General Growth Properties/Marketplace Mall Lone Pine Electric Lowe's MAB Paints New Prairie Construction Prime Time Pizza Remco Electric Riley Homes Sherwin Williams Springfield Electric TriStar U-Haul   ReStore Holiday Hours   Champaign County's ReStore is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 1 to 5 p.m. The ReStore will be closed on Tuesday, December 25, Wednesday, December 26 and Tuesday, January 1. Donations of goods for the ReStore are accepted during business hours. Please pull up to the southeast garage door and ring bell for assistance. Too large for your vehicle? Schedule a donation pick up! Donation pick ups are a $5 fee in C-U, and $10 outside C-U within a 15 mile radius. Contact us at (217)355-6460 x120 or operations@cuhabitat.org to schedule. See new items here!   Habitat for Humanity of Champaign County & ReStore   119 E. University Ave. Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 355-6460 ReStore (217) 359-0507 Administration www.cuhabitat.org	Brought to you by...     Thank you, wrappers!   Thank you to last week's volunteers: the entire Drozdz family, Stan Borysk, Erin Pouilliard, Elder Nielsen, Joyce Studyvin, Elder Lloyd, Sammie Bundy, Susan Bekiares, Christine Bekirares, Ann Hollenback, Kelly O'Connor, Kelly Minogue, Ruth Roh, Jenna Brayton, Stephanie Davidson, Patti Rudolph, and Gabriela Calzada. Thank you, too, to Karen Klebbe and Centennial High National Honor Society and Key Club students for their many volunteer hours. Debby Borg and Cindy Doyle, volunteers from Champaign County Humane Society, generously donated gift wrap, bows and boxes as did Macy's. We will continue to wrap gifts to raise funds for Women Build Homes with the Corona Family. Come volunteer or bring us your gifts to wrap at Market Place Mall on December 15th through the 24th from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. (next to sears and Bergner's). Contact Ellen Willcox at 359-0507 x111 or house@cuhabitat.org.   Kid to Know: Bryan Drozdz   Congratulations to ReStore volunteer Bryan Drozdz for his feature story as a Kid to Know on WCIA 3. If you'd like to get involved, contact Patti Darr at 355-6460 x116 or volunteer@cuhabitat.org.   Did you know? Cars for Homes™ Recycles   Although a number of vehicles that are donated to Habitat's Cars for Homes™ wholesale for $1,000 to $12,000, about half of the vehicles donated are at the end of their useful lives as modes of transportation. But that doesn't mean they aren't important donations: vehicles are the most heavily recycled consumer product. Each year, the steel industry recycles more than 14 million tons of steel from end-of-life vehicles. This is equal to nearly 13.5 million automobiles. Recycling steel saves both energy and natural resources. Last year, 67% of the steel manufactured in North America was recycled steel. Recycling one ton of steel conserves 2500 pounds of iron ore, 1400 pounds of coal and 120 pounds of limestone. (Source: Steel Recycling Institute). With energy savings at all points of the production cycle (mining, manufacturing, and disposal of steel products), the steel industry saves the equivalent energy to power about 18 million households a year. For many reasons, recycling donated vehicles is a good thing: for the environment (it rids communities of junked vehicles), for energy conservation, and for the average donor. It's fast, easy, and the donor gets to deduct the fair market value (up to $499) of any donation that sells for less than $500. View Video: Windows Media 56k | DSL Call Cars for Homes™ toll free at (877) 277-HFHI (4344) or process your car donation online now!