Early Christmas Gift: A New Home

Bay Minette American Red Cross A Baldwin County woman will soon celebrate Christmas a little early.

by Kesshia Peyton

Published: Tue, December 11, 2007 - 4:26 pm CST

Volunteers with We Care of Baldwin County, American Red Cross and Volunteers of America are building a new home for Patricia Mendez of Bay Minette.
Her original home was damaged during Hurricane Katrina.
She got the money to make repairs but a contractor said her house had to be torn down.
The problem was that the money used to make the repairs could not be used to build her a new home.
Since then, Mendez has been going from house to house living with relatives.
By the end of the week, she will be in her own home.
"She's getting a 864 square foot shot gun style house, two bedroom, one bath, very comfortable and it'll make her a good home," said We Care of Baldwin County President Bobby Clark.
The house should be finished Friday.
That's when Patricia Mendez is going to get the keys to her new home.
When she opens the door, she'll be in for a huge surprise.....the house will be fully furnished!
To learn more about the organizations helping to make this Christmas dream come true, click on the related links on the right side of this web page.

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joy-love-faith Says:

Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 1:12 pm

Will we all have dreams. But we all do not drinks and party all the time..THIS IS MISS USED MONEY!!!!!!!!. She can work. Glad to see that she got a home. There was a family up the road from her about 2 years ago There house burn down they were in there late 60’s early 70’s . A Bay Minette car dealer helped them .they could not build a new home so they get a used mobile home and put on there land..Mrs.Mendez and so of the others may a big fiss about this. iT NICE TO KNOW IF U SET AND WAIT YOU WILL GET IT ALL FREEE. DID YALL FINISHED THE WEEKEND PARTY TOO!!!!! THIS DAY IN TIME WE ALL ARE IN NEED..GOD BLESS.