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Habitat For Humanity Project Remembers Cancer Victim

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Blitz Build is under way in Tampa, a Hillsborough County Habitat for Humanity construction project in memory of Suzie Hastings, a crew leader's wife who died of breast cancer in January, said Ralph Jackson, Habitat executive director.

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Published: October 13, 2008

  

TAMPA - The sound of nails being hammered and wood being sawed filled the air in Grant Park this week, as Habitat Hillsborough volunteers worked to build a house from slab in just 14 days.

The effort is called a Blitz Build, said Ralph Jackson, executive director for the Hillsborough County Habitat for Humanity. The home is being built in memory of Suzie Hastings, the wife of one of the crew leaders who died from breast cancer in January, he said.

Typically, a Habitat for Humanity home takes 16 to 20 weeks to complete, working only on weekends. But this one, dubbed the "Suzie Q Blitz Build House," will be finished in two weeks. Work began Saturday on a previously poured concrete slab.

"We are compressing this into 14 straight days," Jackson said. On Saturday, 150 volunteers showed up to stand the walls, he said.

Volunteers are from Citigroup and All State Homes, sponsors of the project, and Moffitt Cancer Center. A special Women Build day will take place Friday. Women who volunteered for that day have donated $25 to put into a fund that will go to Moffitt Cancer Center.

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