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There’s no abode like home. Except maybe a adapted home.
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Such has been the case for Malden citizen Joe Blair, whose Pine Street home was afresh repaired and adapted through Home Depot’s Celebration of Service campaign. The anniversary attack is directed at convalescent the lives and homes of U.S. aggressive veterans and their families.
A Home Depot agent and acquaintance of Blair’s initially contacted the Lt. Norman Prince Veterans of Foreign Wars Column #1506 in Melrose to analyze about options for allowance the 78-year-old U.S. Navy adept amend his home, which he has lived in for 46 years. The VFW’s lath assembly afresh brought Blair’s needs to the absorption of bounded contacts at Home Depot, whom they knew from beforehand assignment at the Melrose post.
A Home Depot aggregation of advance experts began assignment at Blair’s abode on Tuesday, Oct. 24, and connected renovations through the aboriginal anniversary of November.
“They’re absolutely good,” Blair said of the Celebration of Service volunteers, gesturing to a accumulation that was alive on a new aback fence and aboideau on the afternoon of Oct. 31. “They’re activity to put a roof on.”
(Blair’s roof will be installed by a accountant contractor, not the Celebration of Service team.)
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Blair served in the U.S. Navy from 1957 to 1963 at Naval Air Stations in Pensacola, Fla., and Norfolk, Va. He and his backward wife confused to their Malden abode in 1971, aback their babe was 10 years old. In the decades since, the Pine Street home has been a acquisition atom for abounding ancestors get-togethers with his two grandsons and two great-grandsons. However, the architecture has continued bare updates, from a new roof and windows to a rebuilt accouter and doors. The autogenous was in charge of beginning acrylic and new appliances.
All of these needs were addressed by the 12 Celebration of Service volunteers who formed on Blair’s home, advancing from as far as the Rochester, N.H. Home Depot to as bounded as the Saugus store. Out of the 10 food in the bounded district, six alternate in the Pine Street project. All volunteers formed on Blair’s abode on their canicule off.
Looking out for one another
Brady Dow, the Saugus abundance administrator and the team’s leader, said that the Celebration of Service attack reflects abundant of what Home Depot stands for as a corporation.
“We’re a aggregation of values, and one of them is giving aback to our community,” Dow said. “We’re consistently attractive for assembly who are absorbed in that aback we’re hiring.”
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Dow additionally fatigued that Home Depot consistently works with a nonprofit accomplice to analyze veterans absolutely in need. For Blair’s project, that nonprofit accomplice was VFW Column #1506.
Michele Thibert, accepted administrator of Melrose’s Column #1506, fielded the aboriginal alarm from Blair’s acquaintance requesting advice for his adolescent Pine Street resident. She forwarded the advice to the post’s board, who agreed that Blair should accept the advice he needed. Home Depot was afresh contacted.
Post Commander Leo Boudreau said that he was afflicted by how bound Home Depot got the activity off the ground.
“Home Depot was actual proactive. They’re actual acceptable and accomplished at what they do,” Boudreau said, pointing out that abounding Home Depot advisers are additionally veterans.
For Boudreau, the assignment on Blair’s home is an accomplished archetype of how veterans attending out for one another.
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“We’re all for the aforementioned good. Veterans consistently booty affliction of veterans. We consistently accept and consistently will,” Boudreau said.
Boudreau acclaimed that the post’s assignment with adolescent veterans is apricot this year, accustomed the contempo casual of three bounded World War II veterans, all of whom served as an afflatus and action for both himself and abounding added column members.
“I’m abiding they would be appreciative to see what we did for Joe. I’m animated we could be a allotment of it,” Boudreau said.
Blair is actual glad, too. Walking about to the advanced of his abode on Halloween, his pride in its improvements was axiomatic as he acicular out the new advanced aperture and mailbox, the adapted advanced steps, and the aboriginal bracket for his American flag. Blair’s housemate, a 10-year-old accomplishment Jack Russell/Chihuahua mix called Buddy, abutting his buyer to audit the work.
For Blair, the generosity of the Celebration of Service volunteers agency actuality able to already afresh absolutely adore the abode he has lived in for added than 45 years, as able-bodied as accept a affable home to adore with his ancestors during the accessible holidays.
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In the beneath term, the Navy adept credibility out, it additionally agency no added long, annoying trips to the laundromat, area he has had to drive for the accomplished two years anniversary time he bare to do laundry.
“They put in the washer and dryer on Friday,” Blair said, smiling. “I acclimated it that day.”
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