2DO BIG isGOOD - Habitat for Humanity Vail Valley

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A2 | Sunday, August 17, 2014 | Vail Daily
BIG is GOOD 2DO
Vail Resorts gives largestever resort donation
to local Habitat for
Humanity affiliate
OUR PICKS FOR THE
TOP TWO ACTIVITIES IN
THE VAIL VALLEY TODAY
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Celebrate local art
— Today is the final day
of the Red Cliff Studio Tour.
The tour is one of the longest
sustained art events in Eagle
County, with five locations in
Red Cliff displaying the work of
13 artists. Most of these artists
live in and/or have studio
space in Red Cliff. Invited guest
artists come from other places
in Eagle County, as well as one
artist from Salida and another
from Paonia.
By Randy Wyrick
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VAIL — It’s fitting and proper that Habitat
for Humanity’s biggest resort donation is
from the biggest resort.
Vail Resorts cleared everything out of 50
Lodge at Vail hotel rooms and donated everything to the local Habitat affiliate. There
was one anxious moment when no one was
quite sure if Habitat could handle a donation
this big.
Turns out they can.
Fourteen guys, six trucks, some grunting
and straining and the next thing you know
the hotel is empty and Habitat’s warehouses
are full.
“The Lodge at Vail is doing an upgrade, so
they needed to move a lot of stuff in a hurry,”
explained Tom McKay, who runs Habitat’s
ReStore.
There’s all sorts of high end cherry wood
furniture, lighting fixtures, lamps and sconces, ceiling fans … everything you find in an
upscale hotel room that you wish you could
take with you. Now you can.
They moved it Thursday, and it’s available
for purchase now.
Most of it will be warehoused with samples
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, A13
ABOUT HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Habitat for Humanity of Eagle and Lake Counties is part of
Habitat for Humanity International. Habitat builds simple, decent,
affordable homes in partnership with local families in need.
Founded in 1995, Habitat for Humanity of Eagle and Lake Counties
has built 33 homes to date housing over 100 children locally.
To volunteer or for more information, go to
www.habitatvailvalley.org.
Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore showroom is at 150 Cooley Mesa
Road next to Heidi’s Deli and Costco in Gypsum. The ReStore is
open Monday-Friday from 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and on Saturday from
10 a.m.-4 p.m. Call 970-328-1119, or go to ReStoreVailValley.org.
The Habitat ReStore is the fundraising entity for the local
Habitat affiliate.
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Crew for Habitat for
Humanity carry donated items such as lamps,
pictures, mirrors, chairs,
mini-refrigerators and
beds onto a truck at the
Lodge at Vail on Friday. The
Lodge at Vail has donated
the entire contents of 50 of
their hotel rooms, filling six
trucks and eventually the
Habitat warehouse.
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Take in the tennis
tournament — Today
is the final day of the annual Vail’s Mountain Haus
Colorado Clay Court Tennis
Championships at the Ford
Park Tennis Center. The open
is a U.S. Tennis Association
sanctioned event and draws
players from across the region
for three days competition.
Divisions include men’s and
women’s open, 35, 45, 55,
65, 75, singles, doubles and
mixed. The action starts in the
morning and continues into
the afternoon.
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HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
| Sunday, August 17, 2014 | A13
Join us for the Time Trial kick-off in
Mountain Plaza (at the base of Gondola
One in Vail Village) on Friday, August 22!
· Ice cream après – 6pm
· Kids activities – 6pm
· FREE outdoor movie – 7:30pm
From page A2
set up in Habitat temporary store in the Caddis Corner
center in Gypsum, around the corner from Costco and next
to Heidi’s Deli.
Vail Resorts and the local Habitat affiliate — Habitat for
Humanity of Eagle and Lake Counties — have been talking
about this for weeks, so it wasn’t like this snuck up on anyone. Still, when you’re at the bottom of that mountain of
furniture, moving it looks like a daunting task.
But as the proverb says, “Many hands make light work.”
OK, there’s nothing light about cherry wood furniture, but
you get the idea.
Vail Resorts employees volunteer more than 9,600 hours
every year through the company’s Echo program. Besides
young, strong volunteers who have never been tired, they
donate more than $6.5 million every year to 224 nonprofits in their communities.
“We saw the opportunity with the high quality furnishings at The Lodge at Vail, to support the Habitat for Humanity in a major way,” said Graham Frank, senior director
of development with the Vail Resorts Development Co.
Between Habitat for Humanity and recycling programs,
everything stayed out of the local landfill and was returned
to the community where it can do the most good, Frank
said, adding that sustainability is a huge part of VR’s Echo
program.
“This is something we’ve had success with, and Habitat
for Humanity is a great partner,” Frank said.
“In this instance, Habitat was the right partner for a donation of this size. It takes significant infrastructure to be
able to handle something like this,” Frank said.
The Habitat ReStore’s second largest resort donation
also came from Vail Resorts when the Inn at Beaver Creek
was rebranding to become the Osprey in 2008. That hotel
had 38 rooms.
Habitat got the gig because it could move everything out
in one day, without interfering with the resort’s day to day
business operations, said Julie Kapala, Habitat’s communications and events coordinator.
Don’t miss the Vail Time Trial on Saturday,
August 23, from noon-6pm in Vail Village
(starting at Solaris).
Staff Writer Randy Wyrick can be reached at 970-748-2935
and [email protected].
Photo by Jack Affleck.
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