Portage la Prairie's Habitat For Humanity project received more helping hands as some volunteers from the business community came out to offer support.

On Tuesday, the Southport Inc. chief executive officer Stephen Maybury and his staff were at the site in northeast Portage lifting sod for the backyard of the new home.

"Pretty much our entire staff is here -- we're just rotating through the office coming out here in shifts," said Maybury. "It's important to the community. Being a valued partner is just one of our social responsibilities. We certainly follow through on that."

Kent Coltart with Agrium Bloom was also helping out also. Agrium Bloom donated the sod for the site.

He and another staff member were volunteering for the project.

"It's great to get out in the community, and to help support the name," said Coltart. "It's quite nice to see a bunch of other people here trying to help out. Many hands make light work."

Brent Froese, who is the on-site building manager for the local Habitat project, was also hard at work at the site.

"We're nearing completion," he said. "A lot of the loose ends have been tied up; it's looking really sharp."

Some interior painting was in the process of being done at the house and an outdoor fence for the backyard has since been completed.

Plans are to instal the floor covering at the end of the week and the cabinets will go in next week.

Larry Muirhead, chair of the Portage la Prairie Habitat for Humanity Chapter, expects the official grand opening of the new home to take place mid September.

"It's great," he said of the progress on the new home. "We're going to be hanging doors later on this week. We've got a busy couple of weeks ahead of us."

angela.brown@sunmedia.ca

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

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