(Photo by Zachary Meseck)

EARLVILLE - The Impact Project helped a homeowner in Earlville on Saturday, replacing a nearly 70 year old roof as part of the group’s 112th project.

The Impact Project is a group dedicated towards helping people save their homes by completing vital home repairs and connecting homeowners with resources in their community. Many applicant homeowners lack the funds to restore the buildings themselves, and issue can quickly escalate in costs and damages making homes more expensive to fix long-term or even unlivable. The Impact Project hopes to help these residents.

According to The Impact Project Executive Director Jim Willard III, with three large holes in Candi Ramer’s roof, he said she couldn’t afford to wait any longer for a replacement. Willard said the cost of the project would have been more than $14,000 if Ramer had paid a company to complete it.

“When almost half of the county in the ALICE population, living in poverty and paycheck to paycheck, these kinds of repairs aren’t being done on most homes,” said Willard. “This roof was built in 1951, there were three large holes letting water into the building, and it wouldn’t have made it much longer.”

Ramer spoke on The Impact Project’s efforts and said, “The Impact Project has my undying gratitude - it’s so difficult to express how this has affected me.”