SitemapWKBN 27 First News Anchor Lauren Wood, Reporter Christina
Mullen and Meteorologist Matt Jones were out with YNDC on Wychwood Ave. in
Youngstown, helping clear out a house.
About 10 volunteers were swinging
hammers throughout the day, including Jaclyn Kessler, who enjoys working with
YNDC because she says the group strives to make sure people have homes. “I
wanted to get involved because I am working on my Gold Award Project, which is
the highest honor in Girl Scouts, and I wanted to get youth from different
areas to come together and work on different projects,” she said. YNDC’s Demo
Day included tearing down the house’s kitchen, which will have brand new
appliances for the family who buys the house. Tiffany Sokol is the housing
director for YNDC, she oversees projects and understands the importance of
helping out the community. “Our workdays are extremely vital to everything that
we do with our housing program at YNDC. We’re able to get volunteers out here
to do the demo work and get our houses prepped for our skilled construction
laborers to come in and do the rehab work on these houses. It saves us a whole
lot of time to have these houses prepped and ready to go by volunteers, and
that allows us to get more houses done each year,” she said. Anyone can take
part in these work days. The next is coming up tomorrow in the Idora
neighborhood, at 3726 Glennwood Ave. Work runs from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. “We’re
going to be landscaping the island on the intersection of Midlothian and
Glenwood, and we’re also going to be landscaping that house again in preparation
to sell that house to a new homeowner,” Sokol said.
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