Making a difference.

Thank you very much for Hanley Wood's recent contribution of $1,000 to Home Repair Services on behalf of Standale Lumber Co. here in Grand Rapids [Mich.]. [As part of the PROSALES Excellence Awards, November 2003.]

Through Home Repair Services, your generosity helps equip low-income

homeowners throughout Kent County to be more successful. That's certainly important for them and their children. But the impact is far wider even than that because homeownership, coupled with the means to maintain and improve that home, helps make neighborhoods more stable and secure. And that helps build a stronger, more vibrant community, which in turn benefits everyone living in this area.

Just this past Thursday, we gathered about 430 people together for our annual Resourceful Homeowner Celebration, held this year at the Frederik Meijer Gardens. It was an exciting time because both clients and donors of this agency shared a banquet meal together and celebrated the accomplishments of this year's finalist families for our Resourceful Homeowner Award.

The work of Home Repair Services has often benefited from the consistent and very generous support of Standale Lumber Co. Thank you for joining them in that support by contributing this gift.

David Jacobs

Executive Director, Home Repair Services

Grand Rapids, Mich.