Volunteers unload lumber in Newburgh
NEWBURGH – For the third time, lumber milled from a Rockefeller
Center Christmas tree was donated to Habitat for Humanity of Newburgh
to be used in construction of homes.
The latest shipment came on Thursday in the form of 100, four-foot by
six-foot pieces.
The lumber will be used in two houses on South Miller Street in the City
of Newburgh, said Habitat Executive Director Cathy Collins.
“It will support the framing work we are doing. It can’t be
used as any supporting studs, but it will be used for blocking and different
things like that in the framing and it will join the two houses that the
2015 lumber was used on, on South Miller Street. So, we are going to have
a kind of Rockefeller Center tree row here in the City of Newburgh,”
she said.
Newburgh Habitat is currently working on 10 houses and when they are
all completed next spring, the organization will have built or rehabbed
95 homes in Newburgh since its inception.
