Members of Local 176-SW join other volunteers in building a house for Habitat for Humanity. In the orange jacket is member Steve Huizinga.
IT WAS a Saturday members of Local 176-sw will remember for a long time to come.
Rather than working in the yard, shopping, taking in a ball game or simply hanging out, they spent the day framing and building walls for a house.
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The house was a project for the Skagit chapter of Habitat for Humanity, a worldwide non-profit Christian organization that builds affordable housing with the help of volunteers from all faiths and backgrounds.
“This is showing a sense of pride in our community,” says Rob Macready, president of Local 176-sw and wastewater collection specialist at the City of Sedro-Woolley.
He says he was surprised at the strong support the project received when it was suggested at a union meeting by Debbie Allen, plant foreman at the Sedro-Woolley wastewater treatment plant.
“She had heard about it at her church and thought we would be interested in volunteering and so giving back to the community,” Macready says. “Members did not do it for recognition. They have pride in their community.
“That’s what the whole thing was about.”
