Patch Volunteers for Habitat for Humanity Project

It's no secret that Patch employees love to give back to their communities. Each year, Patch editors give a minimum of five days of community service back to the towns we cover.

This month, five editors volunteered their time with Habitat for Humanity at the 39 Morris Avenue site.

It was a cold, brisk morning but we were ready to work. The crew was cheerful despite the fact that the task for the day had already been done, and subsequently destroyed by rain, three times already. But the concrete footings were to be poured again because without that, the foundation wall could not be built.

So, Northern New Jersey Associate Regional Editor Rick Burchfield and myself began scraping dried mud off the sides of the soon-to-be footings so the concrete would lay flat. 

Then, after a brief orientation with the other volunteers, we got to work leveling concrete and creating "keyways" for the future foundation walls to lock into.

Check out the photo gallery to see the editors who volunteered their time and to see the status of the Interfaith Community Build project, a soon-to-be six-unit affordable housing unit.

Special thanks to Morristown Editor John Dunphy for organizing the event with Morris Habitat and Montville Editor Nate Adams for his helping volunteering.