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20th Annual Pancake Breakfast to Benefit Habitat for Humanity Saturday

The menu includes all-you-can-eat pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, coffee, and orange juice.

Editor's note: The following is a press release from the Fox Valley Habitat for Humanity.

The community is invited to the 20th annual pancake breakfast to benefit Montgomery-based Fox Valley Habitat for Humanity is from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday, at the Aurora Advent Christian Church, 905 N. Edgelawn Drive.

The menu includes all-you-can-eat pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, coffee, and orange juice.

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Beth Conover of Aurora will lead church volunteers serving the breakfast, sponsored by the church's outreach committee.

Admission is $5 for persons up to age 10 and $7 for older children and adults.

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Habitat will dedicate its 50th project since 1989 at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, at 355 Michigan Ave., in Aurora.

Batavia resident Renee Fortuny and her three children will receive house keys and a family bible in a ceremony. Fortuny and about 100 volunteers who have rehabbed the home on Thursdays and Saturdays since September 2012 will be recognized. Information about Fox Valley Habitat projects and volunteer opportunities will be available.

Call 630-896-1963 for breakfast information.

Founded in 1989, Montgomery-based Fox Valley Habitat is a nonprofit ministry that partners with working families in need of affordable housing. Volunteers have completed abenson49 units housing over 200 persons in Aurora, North Aurora and Montgomery. To raise funds to build more houses, Habitat opened a ReStore retail operation in March of 2012 at 4100 Fox Valley Center Drive in Aurora's Westfield Shopping Center.

The ReStore is a 28,000-square-foot outlet that offers new and used building and home-decorating materials to the public.

Habitat, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, plans to operate the store from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday.

Rev. Jeff Barrett, Habitat executive director and pastor of Genesis Community Church in Montgomery, said he expects the ReStore to provide Habitat with income to build several homes annually.

"By helping with the ReStore, volunteers will help build more homes than if they were working on one home at a build site," Rev. Barrett said.

Call 630-859-3333 or visit www.foxvalleyhabitat.org for information.


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