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Homes For Our Troops
 Homes for Our Troops is a
national non-profit organization
founded in 2004. They are
strongly committed to helping
those who have selflessly given
to our country and have returned
home with serious disabilities
and injuries since September 11,
2001. New Jersey’s Union
Carpenters have been
volunteering across the state
building homes for military
personnel injured during their
service.
Union Carpenters Help Local
Iraq Veteran.
28 journeymen carpenters from
the Red Bank-based Carpenters
Local Union 2250 volunteered
their skills. Another 20
volunteers, including a handful
of soldiers from Fort Monmouth,
also showed up to lend a hand.
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The walls go up on Ex-Army
Sgt. Michael Minard's
home in Union
Beach, thanks to the efforts of Homes
for Our Troops and about 50 volunteer
laborers. |
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Project completed . . .
Homes for Our Troops recipient Michael Minard
gets new home with the
help of Union Carpenter
Volunteers!
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As shown on left, Union
Floorlayers from ReSourceNJ,
installed bamboo flooring for
Cpl. Visnu Gonzalez at his home
in Hillsdale, NJ. See more
photos of "Homes For Our Troops"
In The Build NJ
Photo Gallery |
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30 Years Later, Union
Carpenters Continue Legacy
When
Father Romano needed help to build the
Bethlehem Hermitage in 1975, members of
NJ Carpenters Union Local # 620 arrived
with their tools and their spirit of
volunteerism. Led by George Laufenberg,
Sr. and Tony Pennucci, both officials of
Carpenters Local # 620, the hermitage
was built and still stands today.
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 Now, some thirty years later, Father
Romano, still at the helm of the
Hermitage, is in need of help once
again. This time however, he is reaching
out to the sons of the fathers who
initial volunteered. George Laufenberg,
Jr. and Lenny Pennucci are now carrying
on their fathers’ legacy of volunteerism
and sharing it with the current members
of the Carpenters Union. Since the
middle of June, union carpenters began
arriving with their tools, as their
union brother and sisters did three
decades earlier; and donating their
skills to build a much needed expansion
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Union Carpenters Help Boy
Scout Obtain Scouting’s Highest
Achievement
On
Saturday April 19, 2008, Life Scout Tom
Szymanski held his Eagle Scout Project
in Point Pleasant Boro. His project
consisted of building an Osprey platform
in which community residents will be
able to view a constructed Osprey nest
in the nearby wetlands.The project
started at 9:00 a.m. with NJ Regional
Council of Carpenters Local 2018
volunteers in attendance.
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 There were 6 volunteers; Joe Scott
(Treasurer of 2018, and employee of
Interstate Drywall), James Johnstone
(Avila Contracting), Mike Barca (Michael
Riesz and Company), Gene Imbemba
(Interstate Drywall), Mike Taylor (Mike
DePalma Contracting), and Michael Prout
(North Bay Builders). These volunteers
were made possible with the help of
Lenny Ames, a Council Representative for
the NJRCC and a Local 2018 member |
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