Otter cagers do some building
Published Thursday, March 20, 2008
The Fergus Falls Otters spent most of the winter trying to build a lead on the basketball court. Tuesday night they put their skills to work on a different kind of building project.
A group of 25 players and athletes did some framing and insulating work on a new Habitat for Humanities home for Joan Vanderlinden and her family.
Why the basketball team? Sam Vanderlinden is why. Sam was a senior on this year’s basketball squad.
“He is just one of the great kids we’ve got,” said Fergus Falls head coach Dave Lehrke.
The building project requires the homeowner to supply 300-400 hours of volunteer time. The large crew was able to eat up around 100 of those hours Tuesday night.
Thrivent Financial is also behind the project, which should be completed by this fall, according to the information given Lehrke.
“We are a team both on and off the court,” said the Otters. “Here was a chance to help out one of our own so we had to take advantage of this.”
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