Organizations, businesses team up to build home for veteran

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CARA WILWERDING/WORLD-HERALD NEWS SERVICE
From left, Bill Purdue with BP Quality Homes, Cherie Scott with Neighbor Works Home Solution and Dan Ozaydin with Heartland Properties pose for a portrait at the Bayliss Park Veterans Memorial in Council Bluffs.

POSTED: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2015 12:52 PM | UPDATED: 1:00 PM, WED NOV 11, 2015.
By Mike Brownlee / World-Herald News Service

COUNCIL BLUFFS - It started with an idea.

Homebuilder Bill Perdue was speaking with his friend and cohort, Dan Ozaydin of Heartland Properties.

“We were talking about veterans,” said Perdue, who operates BP Quality Homes. “I said it’d be neat to build a new home for a veteran and give it to ‘em with no strings attached, give it to ‘em free and clear.”

The idea grew. Perdue contacted subcontractors and suppliers he works with and the businesses have agreed to donate supplies and labor for free.

FULL story at link. Marta and I took several photos at the same Veterans Park this summer: http://www.democraticunderground.com/11796377