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Expositor Staff

By Vincent Ball
Local News - Tuesday, October 11, 2005 @ 01:00

What do you get when you mix more than 300 volunteers with national donors, corporate sponsors and about 80 local partners?

The fulfillment of a father�s dream.

�Every day for the last 15 years I�ve had a dream of building an accessible home for my daughter Amber,� Fred Pelzer said. �For the last three weeks, I�ve been living that dream.�

Thanks to Habitat for Humanity Brant, Fred, his wife Connie and their four children � Amber, Freddie, Matthew and Madison � will be able to live the dream for years to come.

They are the recipients of the first accessible home built by Habitat for Humanity Brant. It was constructed on land donated by Empire Communities in West Brant, with help from an army of volunteers backed by a lengthy list of corporate donors. "