While working on the footers for a Habitat for Humanity home, Avon Park High School junior John Edwards finds he has a problem with wood splitting. ...more

March 4, 2009

Robin Knight shrieked when she saw Warrick Dunn. She howled again Tuesday afternoon when she stepped inside the new five-bedroom home presented to her by the Warrick Dunn Foundation and East Pasco Habitat for Humanity. ...more

December 10, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY Sarah Cooke thought she would be doing a walk-through of her new Habitat for Humanity home today -- until she saw the crowd of people in the driveway. She and her children, son Devin, 15, and daughter Lauren, 10, were greeted outside the home in the New Port Richey neighborhood of Moon Lake by Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back Warrick Dunn. ...more

December 9, 2008

About 30 people stood in the drizzling rain Saturday morning to break ground on a new habitat for Humanity home. ...more

November 17, 2008

The sound of hammers on nails and saws through wood filled the air in Grant Park this week as Habitat Hillsborough volunteers worked to finish a house in 14 days. ...more

October 14, 2008

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. ...more

October 13, 2008

When Paxton Zachary Steier, 4, saw his new home for the first time at an East Pasco Habitat for Humanity home-dedication ceremony, he ran to sit at the center of the front porch and play, somehow knowing that he was at home. ...more

June 21, 2008

SEBRING — With shoppers usually waiting outside for the doors to open, the Habitat for Humanity Home Supply store is easily the busiest place in downtown Sebring. Although many Habitat for Humanity affiliates have similar stores selling furniture and building materials, most are not as popular or profitable as the one on 137 S. Commerce Ave. "We have one of the most successful home supply stores in the nation," said Jane Breylinger, executive director of Highlands County Habitat for Humanity. Store Manager Chuck Ball said the store had more than $600,000 of sales last year. That's enough not only to cover the administration costs of the nonprofit organization but also to build two houses every year. ...more

February 23, 2008

A year and a half ago, 14-year-old Matt Mooney saw a friend and his family move into a Habitat for Humanity home. ...more

January 20, 2008