By paNOW

Family of six given new home in Duck Lake

Sep 10, 2013 | 11:42 AM

A Duck Lake family of six is getting a new home. Next week the foundation will be laid, thanks to Habitat for Humanity. The construction cost will total more than $100,000.

“I can’t even put it into words. I’m so beyond excited and grateful and thrilled,” said mother-of-four Shayla Weisbrot. Her husband Dvire and their family can’t wait to make their new house a home.

“The home we’re living in now, it’s 110 years old. And it’s, it’s old, it has the original windows. It’s just old [with] a very uneven landscape. The house has lots of creaks and cracks,” said Shayla.

Inmates from Willow Cree Healing Lodge on the Beardy’s Okemasis First Nation will do much of the labour.

Healing lodge director Eric Michaels said the men will also benefit from this by being more able to quickly re-integrate back into society. Michaels knows that volunteer work can do miracles for the man and the community.

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“It’s a wonderful opportunity for the men at the healing lodge to give back. And it’s going to a family that really deserves it,” said Michaels.

Several organizations gave Habitat for Humanity funds to build the Weisbrot’s new home, including $50,000 from Sask Housing, $50,000 from Enbridge and $10,000 from Tachane Foundation.

Local electric and plumbing contractors will help with the construction which starts next week.

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