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Show PROGRAM A WIN-WIN FOR STUDENTS, HOME-BUYERS High school students do the hammering, the UBATC supplies the nails The Uintah Basin Applied Technology College's home building program is made possible through help from the Utah Housing Corporation which pays for the materials used in the home. The stu dents supply the labor and learn a valuable trade. "The UBATC can sell their houses for less than the market value because all the labor is free," said Bart Miller, UBATC Roosevelt campus carpentry rM- ..!:-'; --'. Step ; . instructor. High school students on the Vernal campus built a 2,700 square-foot home. The house will be set on a basement foundation and will have three bedrooms and two baths upstairs. The floor surfaces will consist con-sist of laminate, vinyl, and carpet. The home will be moved to 3050 South 519 East in Vernal. If all goes well, the house should be finished and ready for occupancy oc-cupancy by the end of the school year. The basement will have one finished bedroom and the rest of the basement will be unfinished. Vinyl siding and stone are planned for the exterior finish. fin-ish. The cabinets are being built by Mike Peterson, UBATC cabinetry instructor. Charlie Davis is UBATC 's carpentry instructor at the Vernal campus. He has 105 students this semester se-mester who get the benefit of hands-on training that teaches them carpentry skills they will need should they enter the construction industry. "They see the process of building a home," said Davis. "Seeing how it is done goes a long way in knowing what it takes to build a house. The class exposes ex-poses students to the nature of residential building." Their experience may also have an effect on their wage when hired. Davis said he focuses on tape measure mea-sure reading because some employers will test a new hire to see how well they can read a tape measure. "If they can read it well, it can increase their starting start-ing salary as much as $2 an hour," said Davis. Another house was constructed by high school students at the UBATC in Roosevelt under Miller's direction. At 1,288 square feet, it is smaller than the home built on the Vernal ATC campus, but the Continued on page 15 Charlie Davis, UBATC carpentry instructor (pictured fourth from left) and high school students enrolled in the ATC's building trades program stand in front of the house they are building. The students built two homes and both will be placed for sale. An open house to view the homes will be scheduled in May. Frontier Lumber & Dark Canyon Log Homes We have been manufacturing the finest of log homes for 27 years Call Today 247-2521 Turn A House Into Your Dream Home! Team effort results in affordable housing The Utah Housing Corporation works in conjunction with the Uintah Basin Applied Technology College to provide funding for the construction of homes that will be available for eligible low-income home buyers in the Vernal and Roosevelt areas. The program has multiple benefits, including allowing students to learn the skills involved in the construction trade through hands-on training taught by qualified instructors. Utah Housing is a totally self-supporting program and each year raises hundreds of millions of dollars to fund its first-time home-buyers mortgage program and other programs. The corporation works with the private sector banking institutions, homebuilders and Realtors in administering admin-istering their programs that provide low-interest rates and down payment assistance for home-buyers. Poleline Road Roosevelt, UT 722-4236 Chad Richard WIRELINE SWABBING WAX CUTTING |