Groundbreaking Ceremony

A Groundbreaking Ceremony at our next Eau Claire Habitat Home, for the Shilo Stencil family was held Thursday, May 7, 2009. Please see the clip from TV 18.

The next family will be the Stencil family at 408 Vine Street in Eau Claire, WI.

The new lot soon to be filled with a home for the Stencil family.

House Dedicated!

Check out the great pictures of the Scheuermann’s Family New Habitat Home.

Toby and Mary Scheuermann of Eau Claire, along with their youngest sons, Ian and Sebastian. Ian, age 15, is a freshman at North High School and Sebastian, age 13, is in 7th grade at DeLong Middle School.

Toby and Mary are a hardworking couple that started a painting business two years ago, after suffering several financial and medical setbacks. It was a risky venture but the business that does residential painting, home repair, seasonal yard work and cleaning, has been doing well. The Scheuermann’s enjoy being able to work together in the business as teammates while getting their earlier financial woes back in order. They dreamed of being homeowners someday, but it just seemed too big of a dream with too many obstacles.

On Labor Day, Mary and her sons, Ian and Sebastian, were home when they received the call that they were selected for a Habitat for Humanity house. Kim Yarrington, one of our board members, who also became a Habitat homeowner in1996, was the one who got to make the call giving them the good news. The family screamed, cried and jumped for joy, not believing that their dream was finally coming true. When Toby got home and they told him, he stood in silence and could not believe it. He left their rented duplex and drove straight over to the 33rd Street lot and slowly walked through the framed-in house, letting the reality sink in.

The family has already begun accumulating sweat equity hours. Toby has started tending the lawns of some of our area lots where future Habitat homes will be built. Mary has been volunteering in the Habitat for Humanity office and both have been working at their home site with construction and yard work. In addition, members from their church, Valleybrook Church in downtown Eau Claire, have also started volunteering by hanging sheet rock, staining trim, and removing brush from the lot.

Mary recently said, “We have so much to look forward to, not just a house, but helping other people with their homes; sharing in their joy and being there for them. This is a forever commitment to helping.”

Bowe and Hilger look over the site to make sure everyone is on the same page. It’s time to start clearing the site for a house.

Bowe and crew do not waste any time getting the trees down so they can get in and dig the hole for the house.

In a couple of days the basement is poured and now it is time to get the underground work done before they pour the floor.

Thank you to all the volunteers, suppliers and sub contractors who have helped support this build.

The finished product!

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