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Habitat for Humanity volunteers will soon break ground on Illinois Street in Palouse for a 10-month construction schedule on a new house. Recipients will be Richard and Roberta Kruger, currently residents of Troy, Idaho. He is a U.S. Army veteran, and she is disabled with Multiple Sclerosis.
The house will be paid for by all local money, in large part raised at Palouse Habitat for Humanity's annual fundraiser “Beans N' Jeans,” slated for April 20 at the SEL events center in Pullman. Last year's event, which included live, silent and dessert auctions, raised more than $100,000.
The Palouse house project is expected to cost more than $140,000, with the rest of the money to come from the Palouse Habitat Surplus Sale Store, which opened in Moscow in 2012, to sell donated new, like-new furniture, appliances and building materials.
The Krugers were chosen on a criteria that included need, ability to make mortgage payments and participate in the building of the house.
Interested volunteers can call Palouse Habitat at 208-883-8502.
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