7. Date: February 22, 2005
For Release: Immediately
Contact: Kim Knickerbocker
Marketing Director
303-722-3000
Local Design/Build Remodeling Firm Gives Back To The Community
DENVER, CO – Local design/build residential remodeling firm, Classic Homeworks, recently took some
time out to give back to the community that has given them so much great success over their 20-year
history. In 2004, Classic Homeworks teamed with the Home Builders Foundation (HBF) and many other
vendors to retrofit the home of a disabled Police Veteran. Also in 2004, President Rick Pratt traveled to
Nicaragua with Habitat for Humanity to put his homebuilding expertise to good use.
On August 15, 2003, Gary Kasson, a 30-year law enforcement veteran, was riding his motorcycle home
when he was rear-ended by a drunk driver, forever changing his and his family’s lives. He spent the next
five moths in hospitals enduring rehabilitation for his brain injury. Permanently in a wheelchair, Gary was
finally able to return home and the Kasson family realized that the home they loved was ill-equipped to
handle Gary’s new needs.
Major home modifications were required, so Carol Kasson contacted the HBF, a local organization
whose mission is to "use the unique resources of the building industry to provide housing, accessibility,
and education to help those in need, making their lives more livable." They partnered with Classic
Homeworks to widen the homes’ hallways and doorways, making them wheelchair accessible, and
completely remodeled the bathroom to accommodate all of Gary’s needs. With the help of many, the job
was completed in early February this year. President Rick Pratt commented, “Everyone in the company
came together and worked harder on this project than ever before. It truly became a labor of love.”
To take the firm’s volunteer efforts global, Classic Homeworks President/Owner Rick Pratt joined forces
with Habitat for Humanity to build houses in Nicaragua. Houses are usually two-bedroom with tile floors,
block or brick walls and a corrugated iron roof. Depending on access to a sewage system, houses either
have an indoor bathroom or an outdoor latrine. Building houses that would withstand strong winds and
even hurricanes, Rick worked (and played) 10 days alongside the families who would later occupy the
houses.
Classic Homeworks & the HBF are grateful to the following companies for donating material &
labor to the Kasson Remodel:
Leba Flooring Installation Denver Lumber TM Sales
Home Depot Moen Faucets Cooper Heating & A/C
Boulder Lumber Ferguson Plumbing Supply Taurus Electrical
Wilson Brothers Roofing Stroman Plumbing Seven Corp. Drywall
Dal Tile & Granite Tree House Cabinets Denver Marble Concepts
Mountain Gate Doors Dahl Plumbing Supply Saddleback Tile & Flooring
D. Grannell & Associates
For more information, visit http://www.ClassicHomeworks.com or call 303-722-3000
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