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Published June 17, 2011, 04:36 PM

Homeless shelter needs volunteers

Our Neighbor’s Place is fixing up four apartments at 215 W Cedar St. to give low income families a place to stay and needs volunteers to help.

By: Gretta Stark, River Falls Journal

  • Our Neighbor's Place volunteers
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    Our Neighbor's Place board members, a Habitat for Humanity representative and volunteers from a local church started renovation on one of the apartments Wednesday June 15. From left, front row: Tyler Turner, Tom Bowman, Chris Cernohous. Back row: Jeff Hanson. Randy Feyereisen. Bremda Yurs, James Farr, Jamie Anderson. Gretta Stark photo

Our Neighbor’s Place is fixing up four apartments on/at 215 W Cedar St. to give low income families a place to stay. Local churches are sponsoring the renovations.

Our Neighbor’s Place is recruiting volunteers to help with the renovations. Volunteers will clean, paint, replace carpet, as well as work on carpentry.

To volunteer, email Tom Bowman at maintenance@stbparish.com, email ourneighborsplace@gmail.com, or call 715-426-9000.

Our Neighbor’s Place hopes to have the apartments refurbished and ready by September.

For more information on this story, please see the June 23 edition of the River Falls Journal.

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