Construction Starts On Cda Group Home

Wed., July 22, 1998

From Staff Reports

After 15 years of rentals, Trinity Group Homes will have its own place.

Construction started this week on a five-bedroom, two-bath duplex that will provide more stable living quarters for Trinity’s mentally handicapped clients.

With rentals, “the concern is somebody else is going to buy it and the residents worry that they will have to move,” said Gail Griffiths-Vorse, Trinity’s director. The new quarters will have wheelchair access and other important amenities that rented quarters haven’t had.

Trinity has struggled to find financing to build the new quarters. Volunteer labor from Americorps Young Builders and a loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Agriculture have eased those problems, said Ian Smith, president of Trinity’s board.

Architect Bill Teer donated his services and Charles Tranmer of Hope Realty donated his commission for the lot. Dick Woller of Shadow Construction donated site grading and Signmasters is giving a sign.

Trinity is the only state-certified semi-independent group home for the mentally ill in North Idaho.

“Virtually none of our low-income residents have ever lived in a brand new home,” Smith said.

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