FISH celebrates last beam in place at student housing project with beam signing
Friday morning, the final beam on the new FISH commercial and dormitory buildings went into place.
The beam was signed by over 100 individuals who were invited to leave their mark on the building they helped build through donations over the past year and a half.
This was a way to say thank you to the donors, according to Executive Director Jim Peckham.
“We count on the community to help us do what we do,” Peckham said. “Everything we do is connected with the community.”
The student housing project dormitories are an extension of FISH’s program FastForward4Families, which allows underemployed individuals the chance to pursue higher education through a technical training program at Western Nevada College, while assisting with rent and living expenses.
The student housing project not only will help the students and the workforce, but will help the next generation as well.
“80 percent of individuals who are interested (in the project) are single parents,” Peckham said.
When children see their parents working on school work, they too will work harder on their own studies, according to Peckham.
The dormitories will be available first to individuals within FISH’s program, either at a highly reduced cost or even free and secondly to currently enrolled WNC students. Any units left will be made available to any individual who is currently attending college, whether a regional school like the University of Nevada, Reno or online.
The building facing the street is the commercial building which will house several local businesses. This will also provide job opportunities to students in the dormitories, and should be finished and open for business by January.
The dormitories will be ready for their first tenants this Fall.
To learn more, and to donate, please visit http://www.nvfish.com/