Duquesne Light Employee Volunteers Serve Hitch with Homes for our Troops’ ‘Build Brigade’

Since early spring 2007, Duquesne Light has been working with the Pittsburgh Home & Garden Show to promote Homes for our Troops’ efforts to raise funds for construction of a home in Ross Township for James Fair – a local soldier disabled in Iraq. Company volunteers participating in Homes for our Troops’ “Build Brigade” helped the project literally rise from the ground on Saturday, Nov. 17. Volunteers completed the framing and roofing of the structure, along with the installation of windows, doors and siding. Homes for our Troops plans to have the home ready for James and his family by sometime in spring 2008. James lost his sight and both hands in a bomb explosion while serving in Iraq. Duquesne Light and the Pittsburgh Home & Garden Show have helped Homes for our Troops raise more than $250,000 in materials, services and cash donations to construct a home specially adapted for James’ needs. Click here to view a KDKA-TV feature on James and his family touring the home on Feb. 18. For video updates on the home’s construction, go to www.homesforourtroops.com and click on the “Homes” link at the top of the home page and then “Pennsylvania.” Following are photographs taken during the groundbreaking ceremony:
	“Build Brigade” volunteers tackled the construction of the home’s walls and roof.
	Duquesne Light employee volunteers, above and below, prepare for the installation of a patio door.
	Volunteers help to lift sheets of plywood for the home’s roof.
	A company volunteer looks down from the roof of the Fair home.
	A volunteer brought his son along to help at the work site.
	Homes for our Troops still is looking for volunteers to help with the project.