Student uses spring break for Habitat cause

GREEN — At 4 a.m. April 11, Dawna and Lyndsey Cramer of Green Township were second-guessing their trip to Guatemala.

The mother-daughter duo signed up for a Habitat for Humanity trip, and while heading to the airport, they found out their flight was canceled.

Traveling five hours across unknown territory in Guatemala alone wasn’t an adventure they wanted to have. So the two called numerous airlines to find a flight that would get them to Guatemala on time to meet with the group.

Although it wasn’t easy, said Dawna, 47, “It all worked out but put a little doubt in our minds.”

Lyndsey, 18, a senior at South Range High School, had to choose for her senior project something foreign to her, or community service-related.

After nixing her first two project ideas, she searched the Habitat for Humanity Web site and found a trip during her spring break. Although other kids her age would be heading to the beach or a sunny vacation spot, Lyndsey and her mom would be getting dirty building a house, they said.

Read the full story in Monday’s Vindicator and on vindy.com