Transcript
Boxelder Job Corps Students Build Homes
July 5, 2007
Video ID: 4517
Event: Boxelder Job Corps Students Build Homes

(Sounds: Sawing wood, voices, laughter)

Lee Akovenko, Carpenter Instructor

About ready to go to Louisiana, Lafayette, in fact, we’re gonna go with Habitat for Humanity, on a blitz build. We’re gonna go done there and hopefully give them a full week’s work for eleven scheduled homes that are being built down there. And Job Corps throughout the United States are taking a week out of their schedule to go down and help Katrina. It will be a great experience to build a life-size home out there for someone in need as far as being without heat, shelter. Well these are the walls, and that’s the stage we are going in to complete down there, actually, frame up some walls.

Brandon Harrison, Boxelder Job Corp Student

I am a little nervous about it, but at the same time I’m confident cuz while I was here, I mean, I learned a lot. I never knew a thing about carpentry. So, now it’s almost like second nature. Bracing up the walls. Setting up walls. I know we’ll be doing some of that down there. And probably after that, cuz we’re only gonna be there for five days, but trying to get as much done as possible, so…

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