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The ROOF (Roofing Over One Family) Project is an initiative founded by Danny and Paula Matchett, owners of Danny's Improvements Inc. After owning and working in the roofing business for many years, Danny became sensitized to the bare necessity of a good roof. Danny also became increasingly aware of the many families without a good solid roof over their head.
Too often, the basic shelter and security that a roof provides is taken for granted. No one thinks about repairing a roof when the sun is shining, or maybe the thought does cross the mind, but the resources are not there to do anything about it. The roof gets put off for another year, and another, hoping things will get better, luck will improve and then when it rains it pours and the roof leaks, making a bad situation much worse and causing immeasurable heartache and stress on a family.
The ROOF project began from knowing these stories and a deep desire to give back to the Miramichi. Having a good solid roof gives comfort to the remainder of the house and lightens the everyday stress of the family within. The Sky's the Limit if you have a roof over your head.
The ROOF project mission: To Give Back to the Miramichi by donating one roof to one family in need each year. All materials and labour will be courtesy of Danny's Improvements and MacCallum Building Supplies.
Together we will provide a Roof Over One Family and improve the lives of one family in need.
Castle's Topmar Building Supplies in Fredericton, New Brunswick raise money for breast cancer by sponsoring the Fredericton Royals baseball team!
Signage is displayed in the ball field year round.
Topmar Building Supplies
140 Clark Street
Fredericton, New Brunswick E3A 2W7
(506) 452-1855
sales@topmar.com
http://www.topmar.com
"This is the second year in a row and it is wonderful recognition from our community to know our customers voted us in this honour," says Acme Planing Mills Vice-President, Julie Deavu.
"It also means a great deal to our hardworking staff who deserve this award. Many members of our staff have been employed at Acme for decades and offer our customers knowledgeable, professional service." Deavu explains.
"We take pride that we're not a big box store or franchise," says Deavu. "We are a one-family Canadian business offering professional, friendly and helpful service. Visit the ACME website for more information...
For a high school student to be committed to athletics and their studies requires commitment and sacrifice on the part of the student. Bulkley Valley Home Centre in Telkwa and Houston B.C. has recognized the best of these students at five area high schools with a $500 scholarship.
Les Yates, GM of B.V Home Centre says the company wanted to find a way to salute the commitment high school students make to their sport. "To be gifted with athletic ability is one thing. It is quite another to use that ability to excel at a sport while demonstrating good sportsmanship and maintaining a good academic standing." The Bulkley Valley Home Centre Athletic Scholarship is five gifts of $500 each to five (5) graduating students who attend a college or university. Yates believes it is important to support and recognize students who may not be the top scholars but who achieve excellence through their dedication to a sport, their teammates and their competitors, read more...
"When Greater Windsor Home Builders' Association made a commitment to the MRI Field of Dreams Campaign, Kimball Lumber and Building Supplies in Essex, Ontario was there to donate and deliver building materials. Together with the Windsor & Essex County Cancer Centre Foundation and many other volunteers, we helped build a house and donate all proceeds to this worthwhile community cause," says owner Harold Kimball.
"Never have seen anything like this." Those words are just a few used by an awe-struck Nancy Gibbons from the Windsor Regional Cancer Centre Foundation as an army of carpenters, construction workers and homebuilders poured onto a building lot at the corner of Hanlan Street and Fairview Avenue early Friday. The lot was vacant except for a pre-poured foundation and driveway and, at 7:00 a.m. sharp, the first sound of a hammer striking a nail signalled the start of a race - a race to build and finish a home in three days, running parallel to a race to wipe out cancer with early diagnosis and precise treatment.
As the sound of power saws and power nail guns joined the chorus of hammers, it was organized chaos as volunteers from companies that normally compete against each other worked in sweat-drenched t-shirts under the guidance of foremen in their distinctive lemon yellow shirts. But the chaos served its purpose as, exactly 41 minutes after they started, the front and side stud walls of the garage were up and being checked for plumb. Fifty minutes later, the back wall of the house, which was assembled on an adjoining lot, was lifted into place by a crane, read more...
"Together with the Windsor & Essex County Cancer Centre Foundation and many other volunteers, we helped build a house and donate all proceeds to this worthwhile community cause," says owner Harold Kimball, Kimball Lumber and Building Supplies
In recognition of Emmerson Lumber’s 50th anniversary, Kim Emmerson has compiled a history of “The Mill Reserve” using information gathered from history books, newspaper articles, local people and the help of the good folks from the Haliburton Highlands Museum.
To download the PDF of “The Mill Reserve” story please click here.
“As beautiful as Haliburton is today, we can only imagine the grandeur of untouched wilderness and beauty that the first excited settlers to our village experienced as they arrived to Haliburton Village in 1864.”
“The village of Haliburton and the Provincial County of Haliburton derived their names from the first Chairman of the Canadiana Land and Emigrating Company, the noted Canadian historian and humorist, who in 1842 himself emigrated to London from Nova Scotia where he served as Judge of the Supreme Court – Thomas Chandler Haliburton.”
