Cookie sales lead to a Uniontown garage

UNIONTOWN—A Habitat for Humanity house will receive a garage door thanks to a donation from the Pullman Girl Scout Troop 3210.

The troop is donating more than $1,000 from its cookie sales proceeds ar to purchase a garage door.

The troop will formally present the garage door to Habitat on Saturday, Oct. 24, at 1 pm. Due to COVID restrictions the event is not open to the public, but there will be a Facebook Live ribbon cutting celebration at 1:15 p.m.

Troop 3210 is composed of first- through seventh-graders.

Troop members voted in January to use the cookie proceeds for Habitat for Humanity.

“What a wonderful surprise,” Executive Director Jennifer Wallace said. “To keep our homes affordable, Habitat International guidelines call for a storage a shed instead of a garage. But in this case, the local covenants require it, which added to the cost to build the home.”

Palouse Habitat must raise another $25,000 to finish the home. Palouse Habitat has started construction on Home #20 in Uniontown. Habitat homes are built with volunteer labor and help from the future homeowner.

Habitat homeowners are selected based on need, willingness to help build the home (including up to 500 hours of “sweat equity”), and specific income criteria including the financial ability to purchase the home from Palouse Habitat after completing their partnership requirements.

“It’s especially meaningful to know that these youth could have chosen any number of ways to spend the funds they raised, and they chose to help someone in their community have an affordable place to call home,” she said.

For more information or to make a gift, visit palousehabitat.org/donate, or contact Wallace at 208-883-8502 or director@palousehabitat.org.