Lee BIA Builders Care and LCEC recently partnered on a landscaping and lawn cleanup project for a local elderly and disabled couple in Fort Myers.
Richard Woodruff has spent a lifetime working hard and caring for others. After retiring from his 42-year career as an electric services line foreman, his greatest commitment remains to his wife of 67 years. She is a home hospice patient and has become fully dependent on her husband for daily care.
Over the past 25 years, the couple has accumulated unwanted items in their yard that they needed help sorting through. In a matter of hours, more than a dozen LCEC volunteers were able to help clean up the unwanted items, pressure wash the home and driveway, pull weeds from the front of the home and trim all the overgrown grass in their backyard. Coastal Waste and Devoted Restoration also helped support this project, providing a 30-yard dumpster and an industrial pressure washer.
“It’s a blessing to be able to lend a hand,” said Kennedy Van Dyke, public relations specialist for LCEC. “Helping a local retiree in the industry and making a difference in the community is part of the LCEC core principles; we show up for those that need support where we work, live and play.”
“We are so grateful for our LCEC volunteers, as well as Coastal Waste and Devoted Restoration for supporting this project,” said Audra McKinney, client services and projects manager at Lee BIA Builders Care. “This project was completed the week of Richard’s 90th birthday, so it was very special to give him the gift of having his yard and home transformed. We hope that Richard and his wife can now live more comfortably and enjoy their newfound space in their backyard.”
Since 2005, Lee BIA Builders Care has helped nearly 500 individuals and families by providing A/C repairs, wheelchair ramps, roof replacements, remodeling projects and other critical repairs that allow deserving elderly and/or disabled homeowners, and their families, to live safely and comfortably in their own homes. Projects are made possible through generous donors and community partners who provide labor and materials to bring a project into reality.
For more information about Lee BIA Builders Care and its mission, visit LeeBuildersCare.org.
About Lee BIA Builders Care
The mission of Lee BIA Builders Care is to provide emergency construction services at no cost to needy and deserving elderly and/or disabled homeowners, and their families, who cannot obtain repairs through traditional means. Lee BIA Builders Care offers a full range of no-cost emergency construction services to improve the safety and health for needy seniors and disabled individuals of all ages by enlisting the expertise and donated services and materials of contractors, sub-contractors and businesses. To date, Lee BIA Builders Care has put more than $5 million in construction services back into the community at no cost to homeowners in need. Builders Care is funded through financial donations, grants and donated services and materials to provide emergency construction services to qualified homeowners throughout the community. Lee BIA Builders Care is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization under the charitable arm of the Lee Building Industry Association. Lee BIA Builders Care is headquartered at 6835 International Center Blvd. #4 in Fort Myers. Donations can be made online at www.LeeBuildersCare.org. More information is available by calling 239-938-0056, and by following Builders Care at www.Facebook.com/LeeBuildersCare.
