WYTHE FAMILY GETS NEW HABITAT HOME

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, January 27, 1992                   TAG: 9201270069
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER
DATELINE: WYTHEVILLE                                LENGTH: Short
WYTHE FAMILY GETS NEW HABITAT HOME
A Wytheville family received the keys Sunday to their new Habitat for Humanity home, built with about 1,500 hours of volunteer labor and many donated materials.
The family of Bill and Pauline Cregger was chosen for the home, based on a number of criteria, including character and ability to repay the cost over a period of time.
"It's amazing what can be accomplished when everyone puts forth this kind of effort," project director Chuck Johnson told the nearly 100 people assembled for the dedication ceremony.
"When we first started, I wasn't too sure about it. We came over here to a hole in the ground," said Frank Putney, co-chairman of the Wythe County Habitat for Humanity and the man who proposed the project two years ago to the county ministerial association after having worked as a volunteer with the New River Habitat group.
Olin Armentrout, vice chairman of the Wythe County Board of Supervisors, expressed "appreciation to those who helped to build it and those who contributed products to go into its construction . . . I think it's a great continuation of the American spirit to see human need and respond to it."
Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit organization founded in 1976 to make homes available through volunteer effort.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB