Summer 1996 Newsletter

Formatting Update: July, 1998

Women at Work

The Women's Work Week for Seattle Habitat for Humanity was held the Week of July 15th - 20th. The event raised $11,241 in cash and $26,040 in in-kind donations and brought 125 women out to the site to work on the Walker Townhouse project. Local members of the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC), the Association for Women in Architecture (AWA), Providence Medical Center, Washington Mutual, RE/MAX Real Estate, Phoenix Mortgage and Investment Inc., Mulvanny Partnership, the Seattle Sheraton Hotel and Towers and many individual volunteers worked throughout the week.

KLSY radio personality Alice Porter kept listeners posted on progress all week and worked on site Wednesday. Other notables on site were Seattle City Council President Jan Drago and council member Martha Choe; Karin Dufault, President of Providence Health Care Systems; Phyllis Kenny, Candidate for Secretary of State;. The fun continued over lunch when some of the men of the Seattle HfH Board of Directors were on hand to serve the working women.

Women's Work Week coordinator Lora Flowler said members of the group are proceeding with plans for design and construction of an all-women built house in 1997. Kick-off is slated for Mother's Day 1997 and a site has been selected. The Women's House will be the first Habitat home on a three house site in Shoreline (approx. 5th Ave. NE and NE 175th St.). More volunteers are welcome and should contact The Women's Project at 804-2344.