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 BASF Plant Science C-U Computing Champaign Carpet and Tile Champaign Estate Sales Champaign Telephone Company Custom Flooring and Tiles General Growth Properties/Marketplace Mall Lowe's Meyer Drapery Gary Perkins Construction Remco Electric Mr. Rooter Scheitlin Construction Slumberland Springfield Electric   Shop - Donate - Volunteer   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. 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 $5 in C-U, and $10 outside C-U within a 15 mile radius. Contact us at (217) 355-6460 x120 or restore@cuhabitat.org to schedule. See new items here! Play the ReStore Restock game here.   Play volleyball with tomorrow's leaders   Habitat for Humanity at UIUC presents ULTIMATE FRISBEE TOURNAMENT! March 29, 10 am on the South Quad Teams of 7 with at least 2 women. $7 per person. AWESOME PRIZES and FREE FOOD! Also, design the best team t-shirt and win prizes!! Register your team online by March 16 here   United Rentals helps Women Build Homes   On March 28th, 2008, United Rentals will be having a customer appreciation day complete with lunch (11 am - 2pm) and sales on equipment and supplies. United Rentals (3501 N. Countryview Rd., Urbana 351-5820) will encourage shoppers that day to join them in making a donation to the Women Build Homes partnership with the Maricela Corona family. Thank you, United Rentals, for helping to build community and relationships through new construction with low-income families!   Your online donation could help buy…   $10 = Box of Nails $35 = Roof Shingles $50 = Low Flow Toilet $65 = One Square Foot of a Home $75 = Window $100 = Kitchen Sink $150 = Front Door $500 = Siding $1,000 = Wallboard $2,000 = Flooring   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 Flickr photo stream	Brought to you by...     Filling bellies, building homes   Thank you to everyone who has donated to the Eastern Illinois Foodbank through the ReStore drop box. The most recent collection of food totaled 62 pounds. Shopping at the ReStore allows Habitat for Humanity to keep home build costs down. Donating to the Foodbank allows families to live another day, fueling their futures.   Storytelling at Grace Community Church   The C-U Storytellers Guild is proud to present "There's No Place Like Home," a fund raiser on behalf of the Women Build Homes partnership with the Maricela Corona Family (now at $32,000 of the $64,500 needed to start the build). On Sunday, March 2, from 2 - 4pm, at Grace Community Church (2901 Watterson Court, Champaign), storytellers Kathy Brinkmann, Kim Sheahan, Camille Born, Lynn Randall and Elizabeth Simpson will tell lots of stories from around the world about people and the place they call home. This is a family-friendly event with a $5 donation at the door. Tasty treats will be provided by Pekara Bakery.   Women Build Homes with Lowe's   The Women Build Homes Committee of Habitat for Humanity of Champaign County and ReStore invite you to attend a series of free home construction clinics at Lowe's (1904 N Prospect, Champaign). Each clinic is being offered twice: Clinic 1: Painting and Trim a) Tuesday, March 4 at 6pm b) Saturday, April 5 at 10am Clinic 2: Tools and Framing a) Tuesday, March 11 at 6pm b) Saturday, April 12 at 10am Clinic 3: Siding and Roofing a) Tuesday, March 18 at 6pm b) Saturday, April 19 at 10am Whether you plan to help on the Women Build (with the Corona family at 114 N Cottage Grove in Urbana) or simply want to learn new skills, we hope you will come. Each clinic is free and open to the public but space is limited, so register with Eileen Gebbie (359-0507 x111 or director@cuhabitat.org). Donations to the home build are welcome.   Why build it?   by Laura Yates, volunteer Last fall Horizon Hobby offered an incredible opportunity to their employees: to work on a Habitat house. This was a wonderful experience for me, one I am hoping to repeat. I learned a LOT. We put trusses up (by hand), put the sheeting on the roof, put the fascia on, the windows and the doors in. My main job was cutting 2x4's. Lots of cuts, lots of angles, lots of lifting and climbing up and down ladders and on the roof…but a LOT of fun and very rewarding. You can tell the day I was wearing my sunglasses, as I must have sweat off all of the sunscreen! My face is a little pink on my nose and cheeks, and it looks like I have raccoon eyes where my sunglasses were! However, where my heart should be is this glowing wonderful BEST feeling of all… HOPE. I'd always wanted to be a part of such a giving organization, to volunteer my time to help someone else get a hand up in life. My husband and I are really blessed with so much in our lives. Family, friends, jobs…all encompassed in our home. The best gift we can give to each other is being a part of a bigger gift, to give another family even a slice of the happiness we have. Not because they will have the "stuff" of a house, but because they will have the important things in life: a safe refuge to call home, a security in life, a commitment to our community, and a place to put their family roots. Our children also came by to see what we were doing, and to hand out popsicles on a really hot day. Of course, now every time they see a house being built they proudly tell everyone that Momma and Daddy are building it! My parents taught me if you can't do it with your whole heart, it ain't worth doing. With triplets, it takes a lot for us to get things done. My Dad watched the trio so Jason and I could volunteer at the house. Just goes to show you how many people it really does take to put a house together. Not just the people there, but the people covering their jobs so they can be there, and the grandparents babysitting so the parents can volunteer. Perhaps this will also inspire and open up a window to a relationship with God. They will have seen the kindness others have shown them, and can mirror that kindness to shower on others. Such a positive potential impact on future generations. We were blessed by God, and helped by family and friends so much along the way, what a perfect opportunity to give back to someone else. And it all starts with building a stronger foundation… TOGETHER.   Share-a-Meal on March 11, 2008