Darryl Bray
From: Connecticut & Vermont
Site: Rainier Vista and/or West Way
Spend one afternoon with Darryl and you may learn more interesting and useful facts about living green, vinegar flies, video production, yerts, DIY construction projects, and other fascinating aspects of our world than you learned all year. Give Darryl a chance to introduce himself, you won’t be disappointed!
Kristen Holsapple
From: Milwaukee, WI
Site: Rainier Vista, La Fortuna
Likes: animals, yoga, words, being outside, social work and social justice, learning, and building with Habitat. Ask me about figure/ice skating, and tell me about any rinks you know of!
Kaitlyn Le Baudour
From: Northern California
Site: House of the Immediate Future/Seattle Center
Speak to me in Spanish because I love it! If Spanish isn't your thing you can join me for eating beans and rice, blackberry picking, rock climbing, or backpacking. I will always say yes to spontaneous adventures. I love people’s stories and documenting them through writing and photography whenever possible. Oh and if I had a dog I'd name him Cowboy, I'm a country girl at heart
Tracie Fowler
From: Olympia, WA
Site: Rainier Vista
Likes: Playing in Seattle's many bodies of water, visiting animal shelters to get my animal fix, outfitting others' homes with cool thriftstore finds, and learning about cool people, things, and happenings through conversation.
Rob Riethmiller
From: Eugene, Oregon
Site: HfH East King County office in Redmond (Construction Systems)
Rob is an outdoor junkie! He enjoys backpacking, hiking, peak bagging, mountain and road biking, community gardening, traveling, and ultimate frisbee. He is passionaite about living and designing sustainably. He also plays a mean harmonica.
Andrew Withnell
From: Washington, DC
Site: West Way
Likes: Icees, Oreos, urbanism, and sometimes, yeeros.
Please join us as we welcome six deserving families
into their new homes in our Habitat neighborhood of La Fortuna, in Renton.
Faith United Methodist Church is hosting their 13th Annual Garage Sale to benefit Habitat for Humanity of East King County.
Andrea has been one of our awesome weekend volunteers since the beginning of July. She first got connected to the Habitat for Humanity Store in Bellevue by seeking an internship opportunity. As a student at the University of Phoenix, her studies require a certain amount of field work or service hours with a local non-profit organization. Her interest in promoting affordable housing led her to us.
Darryl Bray
Kaitlyn Le Baudour
Tracie Fowler
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Fiji is beautiful and the people are extremely friendly. We spent several hours walking, seeing the sites. There are
churches, a mosque, and a Hindu temple within several miles of the hotel.
On our first attempt to find the temple we found a McDonalds, a colony of
fruit bats and a road that led off to the wrong part of town. After back
tracking to the hotel and eating lunch (Bombay pizza), we tried again and made
it further on foot, then got on a bus. We had a local take us under her wing
and she led us through the market to the temple (pic).
We will be building a simple wood frame structure (with
lots of strapping) on a concrete foundation, covered by corrugated steel roof
and siding. They are designed to withstand the 300kph winds that can come with
the typhoon season. They are also required to plant vegetable crops, compost
scraps, and maintain erosion control systems. It seems to be a well though out
planned community. Peter became involved through the local Rotary Club, but
couldn't get big grants to do the work because his Rotary Club was fairly
small. He finally brokered a deal where Habitat manages the money from the New
Zealand Aid grant and ensures accountability and adherence to the grant
requirements and he gets to work within those parameters to complete his plan.
We were rained out at 2pm on the second day and it
drizzled all morning on the 3rd day, but has cleared up and hot weather from
here on out! The mud is what the site supervisor calls the "perfect
clay", as it is both sticky and
slick. I frequently ended up wit 3" of mud on the bottom of my boots.
Within 12 hours of the rain stopping the ground was solid again and we worked
to chip off the dried mud from the day before.
Much was accomplished even with the briefing/ site tour the 1st day and 2 rain shortened days. We are building 2 houses intended for older couples without children at home and abandoned mothers only a few children. They are next to each other and we are sharing a generator and chop saw. The build is well organized and the local crew leaders know the buildings, so progress is impressive(pic). We should finish up on Tuesday or Wednesday and move on to punch list tasks on other homes the previous teams couldn't finish.
