ALLTEL Pavilion, Habitat For Humanity of Wake County and Third Day Present House to Virgo Foster During House Party Christian Rock Festival, September 7.

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RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 2003

ALLTEL Pavilion, the band Third Day and Habitat for Humanity's Joyce Watkins King presented Virgo Foster and her 7-year-old son with a check for $48,000 during the annual House Party Christian Music Festival this past Sunday, September 7. The donation represented show proceeds and will fund and entire Habitat house for Foster and her son. Construction on the house is set to begin in November and will be built in the Southeast Raleigh area. This is the fourth year ALLTEL Pavilion and the House Party Christian Rock Festival have presented an entire house to Habitat, enabling the organization to further its vision of seeing every family in a healthy home, in a peaceful neighborhood, in a sustainable, diverse, tolerant and vibrant community.

The day-long festival featured Third Day, Nicole C. Mullen, Sixpence None the Richer, Chris Rice, Rachel Lampa, Paul Coleman Trio, Needtobreathe and Sarah Kelly. Nearly 12,000 Christian music fans attended the show and cheered loudly when headliners Third Day appeared on stage during the check presentation. Foster's son Markel, who peered out atop the oversized check for $48,000, smiled from ear to ear during the presentation.

"ALLTEL Pavilion would like to thank the thousands of fans and the fantastic artists who made this amazing donation possible," said Odessa Montgomery, ALLTEL Pavilion's community affairs manager. "There really aren't words to express how great it is to see Ms. Foster and her son on the road to home ownership - it's just an awesome experience made possible by caring music fans and dedicated musicians."

"Habitat for Humanity of Wake County is so grateful to have continuing sponsors like ALLTEL Pavilion to help us meet our ambitious new goal to build 52 houses during this fiscal year," says Joyce Watkins King, director of marketing and development for Habitat for Humanity of Wake County. "The ALLTEL Pavilion sponsorship is such a unique one in that literally thousands of people get the opportunity to do something wonderful, simply by attending a concert. Of course that couldn't happen without the dedication of the folks at the venue helping Habitat eliminate poverty housing, one family at a time."

Habitat extends an opportunity for music fans to get involved in building the house, since all of the homes are built with volunteer labor and love. No prior building experience is necessary. Individuals (16 and older) and groups come out every week to give their time, working side-by-side with other volunteers and the future homeowners. To learn more about how companies, church groups, civic groups, or individuals can get involved in Habitat, visit the Habitat of Wake County website, www.habitatwake.org.

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