Habitat To Build This Summer In Tichborne!

Jeff Green | Apr 25, 2013

Habitat for Humanity Kingston and Frontenac have found a building lot. It is in Tichborne right on Highway 38 and Habitat plans to build the first home in our community with your help this summer. Thank you to everyone who called with potential building lots. Your interest was very much appreciated and resulted in us being able to find a great lot.

Habitat makes the dream of homeownership affordable. As reported earlier, Habitat builds modest affordable homes and then sells them to working families with no cash down payment requirements and no interest on the mortgage. Habitat helps those who are helping themselves; those working hard and striving to get ahead.

Equally important, while the family who buys a home from Habitat wins, so does our community. The families' monthly mortgage payments get reinvested back into the community, and are used to build more homes for more families.

The first “build” should begin in earnest this June, but work is already underway. Pete Nedow of Nedow’s Construction worked with Habitat to open up the building lot last month and will be back to start the excavation and septic later in May. Pete has been a huge help already on this project.

Davy Well Drilling has also been on the job and the well is already in. Paracel Laboratories analyzed the water and McIntosh & Perry helped with the interpretation of the results. Steve Tarasick of Tarasick Carpentry is on the Build Committee to help guide the project.

We’re off to a great start! It’s contractor and supplier partners like these that step up and make a community project like this build possible.

And now that we finally have our first building lot, we’re looking for additional contractor & supplier partners able to donate some of their labour and/or materials to the project. If you’re a contractor or supplier and would like to assist, please give us a call at 613-375-8343.

Even at this early stage it is clear the community is supportive and it is our hope that more volunteers will step forward in the coming months to ensure the success of this build.

Habitat is gathering a list of local individual volunteers willing to work on the project. You don’t need to be a building expert to help. We need assistance in all areas, including general organizing, fundraising, and hands-on work such as drywalling or painting. If you want to help, we’ll find a job that fits your interests, just give us a call.

Your office, social group or church can also get involved, whether it be through small fundraising events, or, for example, supplying lunch sandwiches to volunteers when the build starts later this summer.

If you are interested in helping out, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or phone 613-375-8343.

Habitat would like to thank those who have already come forward and encourage those thinking about it to give us a call and get on our growing volunteer list. This is going to be a great build and it is going to make a huge difference in the lives of the family that gets to buy this home. Get involved!

We’ve also received lots of applications from potential homeowners and the Selection Committee is working their way through them. We’re very pleased with the level of interest shown and would like to thank everyone who has applied.