Construction! Construction! Construction!

Moving from a house to a 9000 square-foot building has been quite an effort but well worth the work! This past year has been full of new challenges and opportunities. Since the move, our client base has nearly doubled! We're now just counting down the days to the completion of our lower level and can't wait to put it to use!

A large part of the challenge with this move was coming up with the finances to cover the costs of purchasing the building and making renovations. We're happy to announce that thanks to foundations, organizations, businesses, and individuals in our community, we've been able to put $340,000 towards our new building. As wonderful as this news is, an additional $46,000 is needed to finish paying for the lower level renovations, and we still have a mortgae of $255,000. We hope that with the continual support from our community we will be able to cover these costs by the time of our Open House on September 6, 2003.

Since this construction project began in 2002, we have been pleasantly surprised, on numerous occasions, just how many people have given their time and expertise to our renovations. We are entirely grateful to everyone who volunteered to help us turn the House of Blessing into the centre of caring it is today.

We'd like to give a special thanks to:

• Trillium Foundation for our new elevator
• City of Stratford for our walk-in cooler
• Donald Erb Construction Ltd. for all their hard work
• Dave Davies Heating & Air Conditioning
• Classic Colour
• The Carpet Place
• Stratford Furniture Ltd.
• Lloyd's Electric of Stratford Ltd.
• Kelly's Electric Ltd.
• Zimmer Flooring
• CIBC
• OSSTF
• F. K. Morrow Foundation
• Jackman Foundation
• J. P. Bickell Foundation
• Mackenzie Financial Charitable Foundation
• Festival City Rotary Club
• All the members of our community who graciously contributed with their time and money towards our relocation and renovations