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Mid Ohio Valley Work Camp
About 450 teens from 14 states are gathered in Parkersburg this week to paint the homes of people in need of assistance during the 11th annual Mid-Ohio Valley Work Camp organized by the local Churches of Christ.
The program helps people who are unable to paint their homes due to age or physical infirmity or lack of financial resources.
Local Parkersburg Habitat For Humanity
Those who volunteer their time to work with Habitat For Humanity do it to give something back, but many get so much more from it.
Throughout the weekend over 225 volunteers helped with the Parkersburg Bicentennial Habitat Blitz Build of the 50th and 51st homes by the Wood County Habitat for Humanity on Saturday, June 19th and Sunday, June 20th.
Many volunteers came in from all over the area while some of the "Habitat Road Trip Crazies" came in from Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, New York, New Jersey, Ohio and elsewhere. "Things are going great," said Alvin Phillips, executive director for Wood County Habitat for Humanity. "It has been a wonderful two days. I think everyone is tired, but we have had great success." Local volunteer Kevin McCarthy, a retired DuPont employee, describes himself as an "obsessed regular" who wanted to give something back. "I have been doing this since 2002," he said. "It is a lot of fun." The outpouring of emotion is something that still gets to him from the people receiving the houses to the people who helped build them. All of the volunteers were touched by the thanks they have received from both families. There are people he has helped build other houses in the past who still come up to him and gives him hugs and so on for everything he has done. "That is what you keep coming back for," McCarthy said. "We get some of these real macho guys to help out. "When it comes time to give the keys to the families, they get big tears coming down their face as well."
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The houses at 4304 and 4308 14th Ave. in south Parkersburg were being built with the help of local volunteers and the "Habitat Road Trip Crazies," a group of volunteers who travel around the country to build homes in two days.
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