YOUNGSTOWN Habitat prepares to dedicate its eighth completed home

This family will have a new home for the holidays.
YOUNGSTOWN -- Habitat for Humanity of Mahoning County is scheduled to dedicate its eighth new home at 10 a.m. Tuesday, at 2928 Ridley Ave.
Timothy and LeTonya Whipple Patmon, partner-owners of the home with Habitat, expect to be in their new home before the Christmas holiday season.
The Habitat home was financed and built by Leadership Mahoning Valley Class of 2001, which chose it as a class project and raised $20,000 to build the home.
Contributors
First Energy donated $8,000, which funded an outside storage building.
Sandy Lisko, assistant vice president of Second National Bank of Warren and a member of the Class of 2001, said another class member, Steve Kuhn, president of Antenucci Inc., donated the plumbing.
Other businesses that donated material for the home are Coventry Lighting, Hunter Douglas Blind, Tim Lehotski Concrete, Mahoning Paint and Whirlpool.
Volunteers from the LMV Class of 2001 and from area schools, churches and businesses helped with the project.
Habitat for Humanity, an all-volunteer organization, raises money to build homes for low-income working people. Habitat homeowners are called partner-owners because, although they own the homes, Habitat holds the mortgages until they are paid. In addition, partner-owners are required to put 350 hours of so-called "sweat equity" into their new homes, and attend classes, sponsored by Habitat, on home repair and maintenance.
Mahoning County Habitat homes are about 1,100 square feet and built on a slab. The Patmon home has three bedrooms and one bath.