Kewadin Donates Loads of Furniture

The Sault Ste. Marie Habitat for Humanity group received two semitruck loads of furniture from 27 Kewadin Casino hotel rooms that will soon be renovated. Items include box springs, headboards, dressers, night stands, photos, lamps, mirrors, and bedspreads.

The shipment will be delivered to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Sault Ste. Marie.

"The Habitat ReStore is a retail outlet where quality used and surplus building materials are sold at a fraction of normal prices," said Ted Currie, Habitat for Humanity executive director. "Proceeds from ReStores help us fund the construction of Habitat houses within the community."

Materials sold by Habitat Re- Stores are usually donated items. Donations return good, usable materials into use.

Through volunteer labor and donations of money and materials, the nonprofit Habitat for Humanity builds and rehabilitates simple, decent houses with the help of the homeowner (partner) families. Habitat houses are sold to partner families at no profit and financed with affordable loans. The homeowners' monthly mortgage payments are used to build still more Habitat houses.

Furniture from the hotel rooms was also donated to families of the Anishnabek Community and Family Services group of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.