Construction has begun on a two-family Habitat for Humanity house at 10 and 12 Holly Court in Shippensburg.

Volunteers were working on the house Monday. The excavation, done by Snoke’s Excavating, began three weeks ago and the foundation has been put down. Volunteers will be needed from September through December to work on the exterior of the house.

“Our plan is to have the home ‘buttoned up,’ as we say… before any inclement weather comes from winter,” said Mark D. Story, executive director of the Franklin County Habitat for Humanity (FCHH). That means that the frame, roof, siding and other exterior work is done.

“Early next year we’ll focus on the interior,” he said.>/p>

The project is unique, he said, because it is a joint venture between two habitat groups: the Franklin County and the Cumberland Valley Habitat for Humanity.

For the rest of this story, see the Sept. 21 Shippensburg News-Chronicle.