Caught Doing Good
Foundation Gifts New Roof to Vietnam Veteran and His Wife
By Evelyn Witterholt. After a long life of service to his country and community, this veteran was thanked for it with a brand-new roof. Horras Sheffield and his wife, Willie Mae, have made so many efforts over the course of their lives to give back to their community. Horras, 76, ...
Behind Every Front Door of a Home There is a Story
By Evelyn Witterholt. Give the gift of a safe home by donating to Rebuilding Together South Sound. In an effort to rebuild homes and restore communities, Fields Roof Service has teamed up with Rebuilding Together South Sound for a year-end charitable giving campaign called the Behind Every Front Door campaign. ...
WWII Veteran Gifted a New Roof For Her Birthday
By Evelyn Witterholt. Navy Reserves nurse gets the perfect gift of a free roof for her 100th birthday. U.S. Veteran Catherine Anthony is known in her hometown of Independence, Kansas City as someone who always looks out for others. To help her celebrate her 100th birthday, her community banded together ...
Roofing Company Graciously Donates New Roof to Nonprofit
By Evelyn Witterholt. Horch Roofing gifts a new roof to Trekkers, a youth-development nonprofit organization that has always been there for its community. Trekkers has been a long-standing youth-development organization in Maine for over 25 years. They help the local youths by teaching them how to strengthen their connections with ...
NWiR Helps Bring Christmas to Anisa’s Place
By Cass Jacoby. NWiR Oregon Council helped Santa bring gifts to six deserving girls this year. In February 2020, the National Women in Roofing (NWIR) Oregon chapter teamed up with A Village for One to put a roof on Anisa’s Place. A Village for One is an organization that helps ...
Local Nonprofit and Roofing Contractors Replace Gutter Guards for Ohio Veteran
By Evelyn Witterholt. Korean War-era veteran Robert Snider is thanked for his service with brand new gutter guards. For Robert Snider, a Korean War-era veteran, cleaning the gutters on his roof had become more than just an inconvenient task. He was actually given medical orders not to do roofing repairs ...
Marine Corps Veteran Gifted a Brand-New Roof
By Evelyn Witterholt. Habitat for Humanity donates a new roof to a veteran in need. When U.S. Marine Corps veteran James Marshall Jr. and his wife needed a new roof, they weren’t quite sure how they’d be able to get one. The couple resides in Hillsborough, Florida, a location prone ...
127-year-old Library Roof Restored Thanks to the Community
By Cass Jacoby. The town of Pequot, Connecticut raises $1.5 million in donations to restore historic library roof. Fixing the roof of the Pequot Library was a long overdue project. According to the architecture firm Pirie Associates who directed the restoration, it was “an urgent priority,” not only to preserve ...
Roofing Company Replaces Roof For Veteran Free of Charge
By Cass Jacoby. Generous contractors replace a roof for a veteran in Corpus Christi, Texas who desperately needed it. The roof of veteran Juan Manrique’s home on the 1000 block of St. Mary’s Street had been leaking since Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Juan reports that he would have to rearrange his ...
Nurse Wins a New Roof After Placing First in Essay Contest
By Evelyn Witterholt. The oncology nurse was delighted to get her roof replaced after her brother-in-law entered the contest for her. JoAnna Fabiano, a nurse from Howell, New Jersey, was pleasantly surprised after winning an essay contest she didn’t even know she had entered. Not only that, but the grand ...
