Habitat ReStore comes to Ashwaubenon

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Very interesting.

After two years and planning and construction, the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Ashwaubenon is now open for business. The store is helping some reach a life long goals through giving new life to used construction materials.

“The concept of this store is simple,” explains Bill Seleen, Habitat ReStore Director. “We accept donations of new and used building materials and we use mainly volunteers to staff the store and we sell these products to the public at great savings.”

The ReStore gives customers a great savings and sells the materials for a great cause. All the proceeds benefit the Greater Green Bay Habitat for Humanity.

“More families will reach their dreams of home ownership,” says Seleen. While the ReStore will help put more families in new homes, and give old materials new life, another benefit is where they’re keeping their merchandise from ending up.

“We anticipate diverting between 300 and 450 tons of material each year out of the landfill thru this store,” he says. Light fixtures, lumber, even cabinets, all products for sale are donated by businesses and individuals who no longer want or need them. But the want to help each other is what community leaders say the store is all about.

“This store represents an on going history of willingness to help one another,” says Ashwaubenon Village President Mike Aubinger. “And I can’t do anything but praise the store, the personnel involved and everybody else.” (Source: Habitat Opens ReStore in Aswaubenon – WBAY)

Places like this are what shows what community is all about.  People helping people accomplish the American dream, not people waiting for government handouts to reach it.

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