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Volunteer Josh Feinstein (left), of Seattle, tears apart the deck of a home for low-income residents with developmental disabilities. |
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Published: Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Home gets extreme makeover
By Tony Dondero
Enterprise reporter
About 40 volunteers hammered, shoveled, cleaned and raked all day as part of an extreme makeover in Shoreline, Saturday, April 25.
A home next to Shoreline Center on 185th Street got new landscaping, a new deck, new flower beds and cupboards among other things thanks to a crew from the Concierge Guild of Seattle.
The crew of men and women revamped a house occupied by four people with developmental disabilities who are in wheelchairs.
The home is owned by Shoreline-based Parkview Services.
Parkview is the largest provider of affordable housing for people with developmental disabilities in the state of Washington, executive director Jane Bloom said.
In Shoreline, there are 18 Parkview-owned properties, 15 homes and three condominiums that house 52 residents.
The Concierge Guild of Seattle was looking for a project to give back to the community and found the Parkview project through an organization called Rebuilding Together Seattle.
"I got enough volunteers and skilled workers that we could do it in one day," said Richard Petrone, a concierge with Pan Pacific Hotel in Seattle.
Some of the materials used were donated as well. Johansen Mechanical in Woodinville donated steel plates that were installed to protect the doors from damage from the residents' wheelchairs. Rocks for landscaping were donated by Gary Fruhling Sand and Topsoil of Bothell.
Residents of Parkview properties have disabilities ranging from cerebal palsy to autism, but many of them are able to live independently with help from Parkview.
Parkview also provides down payment assistance of up to $135,000 for people with developmental disabilities.
"We close about a house a month," Bloom said.
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