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Image(Dryden, June 22, 2010) — Habitat for Humanity of Tompkins and Cortland Counties is partnering with the Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOCES Career and Technology Center Habitat to purchase “House #25”, a 3-bedroom modular house that was built by students on their Warren Road Campus.

Tony Dilucci, Director of Career and Technical Education at Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOCES, said “This partnership is the best of all possibilities. It allowed students to build home components and gave them the opportunity to work with Habitat for Humanity, an internationally known organization that works locally. While students were honing their craft they also were giving back to the community.”

The modular house was split down the middle and transported on two carriers from BOCES to the 6 Wellsley Drive, Dryden this past week.

Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity of Tompkins and Cortland Counties, Christy Voytko, says “For Habitat, partnering with BOCES will enable us to better serve our mission. Having this student-built, nearly completed home means that our The Couches will be able to move out of their substandard housing and become homeowners in a much shorter period of time.”

The Tompkins-Cortland affiliate has built 13 stick-built homes in the two counties and has never worked with a modular home before. American Homes in Dryden then came forward to help. In addition to educating the affiliate about modular homes, they sent a crew to BOCES to look at the student’s work, arranged for the crane to move the home from the carriers, and fastened the home to the foundation. “American Homes is happy to help our community by working with Habitat, which is great organization with a worthy cause,” says Jack Baker, Manager of American Homes in Dryden.

“We are most grateful to American Homes for offering their services and expertise, because building modular is uncharted territory for our affiliate," Voytko adds.  "As soon as they signed on to help, everyone at Habitat felt like we were in good hands.”

The owners of this new home will be Geoff and Jessica Couch.

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