Habitat home nearly finished

Construction should be completed on another Potter County Habitat for Humanity house as early as this weekend.

Volunteers will resume work at 8 am Saturday at the Habitat house being built on a hilltop lot at Fourth and Hill streets in Coudersport for Bryan and Theresa Welsh.

The Welshes have been helping with construction and will be volunteering for future Habitat homes. Their home is the local chapter's fourth.

Others have been built on Bark Shanty Road, near Austin; in Galeton, and on Mill Street in Coudersport. The next Habitat home is targeted for a residential lot in the village of Roulette.

Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit, nondenominational Christian housing organization with a charter to build simple, decent, affordable homes in partnership with those in need of adequate shelter.

Potter County's chapter meets on the fourth Monday of each month at 6 pm in the Potter County Education Council offices at North Main and Third streets.

Priority for home ownership is given to families living in substandard housing.

Also, to be eligible an applicant must be earning between 25 percent and 50 percent of the county's median income.

The chosen home owner must participate in the construction of the home or in other significant ways with the organization. In Potter County, families must work a minimum of 500 "sweat equity" hours.

For additional information, call 274-0739 or e-mail Jim and Charlotte Blain at jrcmblain@aol.com.