Work starts Wednesday on Kaluza house

YOUNGSTOWN — Crews plan to break ground at 8 a.m. Wednesday on a new house for former KFC manager Joe Kaluza.

The handicapped-accessible house will be built by volunteers on Ivanhoe Avenue, near where the Kaluza family lives.

Kaluza, the father of two, was left a quadriplegic when he was shot in March 2008 during a robbery as he was making the restaurant’s bank deposit.

Money for the house was raised through the Kaluza Project with donations collected at the Canfield Fair and contractors volunteering their services.