Photo Album: Community rallies to help Norway couple with home repairs – Lewiston Sun Journal
Kathleen and Richard Judkins admire their new kitchen in Norway on Wednesday, seeing it for the first time since March. Danielle Wadsworth records the moment on Facebook Live behind them. Wadsworth organized an army of volunteers through Facebook to clean and repair the house, which had fall.......
Kathleen and Richard Judkins admire their new kitchen in Norway on Wednesday, seeing it for the first time since March. Danielle Wadsworth records the moment on Facebook Live behind them. Wadsworth organized an army of volunteers through Facebook to clean and repair the house, which had fallen into disrepair over the years. New flooring, appliances, a furnace, electrical work, painting, trash hauling, driveway repair and more were provided by the volunteers in three weeks. Wadsworth is setting up a non-profit, Hope for Humanity, to help other members of the community. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal
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Danielle Wadsworth, center, points to many of the new repairs and furnishing on Wednesday in Richard and Kathleen Judkins’ renovated living room in their home on Hayden Avenue in Norway. Wadsworth says there is still much to be done to bring the home up to her standards, but she was eager to get the basics done so the couple could move back in together. Wadsworth collected donations and volunteer labor to fix the couple’s home after they were found living in poor conditions. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal
Kathleen and Richard Judkins enter their kitchen on Wednesday for the first time in more than a month. They were moved into a motel to give time for volunteers to renovate their home. Thousands of man hours went into cleaning surfaces. The couple had been surviving the winter with a broken furnace and had resorted to buying firewood by the bundle, when Danielle Wadsworth was brought to the house by her mother, Connie Sessions, while delivering wood. Wadsworth, who has extensive connections in the community took on the project of fixing up the couple’s home. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal
Richard and Kathleen Judkins return home on Wednesday with Danielle Wadsworth, right, who spearheaded the effort to renovate the couple’s home. Wadsworth had met the couple in March while delivering firewood to them and discovered their house to be in severe disrepair. Wadsworth organized the community via Facebook to provide volunteer labor to fix up the couple’s home. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal
Louisa Westleigh, left, and Tracy Chute rake out some ruts on Wednesday on the lawn of Richard and Kathleen Judkins in Norway. The elderly couple living in the house on Hayden Avenue were given a home renovation by the community. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal
Last minute cleaning, plumbing work and appliance setup is done Wednesday by, from left, Tracy Chute, Mickey Bailey, …….