Painting, drywall and other tasks kept 26 nurses of the Scrubs Group busy Friday during a volunteer project to benefit Habitat for Humanity.
The MedCentral College of Nursing student community service group was refurbishing a house at 26 Florence Ave.
Habitat for Humanity Executive Director Veronna Drane said the project is funded by Richland County Foundation and First Energy/Ohio Edison donations and Community Development Block Grant money.
"They are awesome," Drane said of the nurses. "They are a very hard-working group."
The local nonprofit organization has worked on two homes this year. The other is at 311 Newman St.
Nursing student Nikita Stankiewicz, a senior from Millersburg, said students finished finals this week and were ready to lend a hand. Their task was to spruce up a three-bedroom, 1 1/2-bath house that also has a full basement.
Habitat volunteer Tammy Crider said construction began in May and is scheduled to be completed Dec. 31.
"They work so fast I'm trying to keep up," she said.
MedCentral students Abby Brown, Kelly Payne, Jordan Reff and Jarad Hayes worked in one of the bedrooms Friday before noon. Students enjoyed the time together.
"We've been singing," said Brown, 21, of Bellville. "We're second-year mudders."
Inside a hallway, seniors Tarah DePolo, 24, of Mount Vernon, and Hayley Baker, 21, of Lexington, also worked to texture a wall.
"I now appreciate carpenters a lot more," DePolo said.
Students Kerrie Schiefer of Bucyrus and Erica Sigler of Wooster were busy putting down sub floor in the kitchen. Both nursing students said they were learning a lot, having fun and helping people who need it.
Scrubs advisers Tina Cunningham and Kelly Kossick, who both work in the college's Admissions Office, said the group is composed of student ambassadors.
"They're leaders of the college and do community service projects including blood drives and adopting families. One main goal is to promote leadership and service," Cunningham said.
Drane said selection of a Habitat partner family is based on need and willingness to work. Each partner family agrees to give 500 hours of "sweat equity," volunteer labor on Habitat projects that includes their own home. The partner family also pays for all materials. But the house is sold at no profit, and because virtually all labor is donated, the cost is less than half that of a privately contracted home.
Contact the Habitat office at 419-524-8361 to lend a hand at the site as the project wraps during the next few weeks. source
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