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Clay County Family Gets AmSouth's Fifth Habitat House; New Home in El-Dorado Heights Built with 200 Hours of Volunteer Labor.


JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The residents of the El-Dorado Heights community have a new neighbor, thanks to hard working AmSouth Bank volunteers, and Clay County Clay County is the name of 18 counties in the United States. Most are named for Henry Clay, U.S. Senator and statesman:
  • Clay County, Alabama
  • Clay County, Arkansas (named for John Clayton, and originally named Clayton County)
  • Clay County, Florida
 Habitat for Humanity Habitat for Humanity, nonprofit ecumenical Christian organization that enables low-income people to own affordable, livable housing. Headquartered in Americus, Ga., it was founded in 1976 by businessman Millard Fuller and his wife.  project coordinators. AmSouth provided construction costs and arranged volunteer labor, more than 200 hours total, to help build the new home for Sarah and Frankie Wheeler and their three children. The new home represents an estimated corporate investment back in to the community of $136,800.

"Our completion of this fifth Habitat home in Clay County proves that we're 'The Relationship People' both on and off the job," said Jacksonville City President Marty Lanahan. "We build relationships all the time, and working with our great partners at Habitat in Clay County, together we're building stronger neighborhoods and improving the lives of the families like the Wheelers."

Erika Woodcock woodcock: see snipe.
woodcock

Any of five species (family Scolopacidae) of plump, sharp-billed migratory birds of damp, dense woodlands in North America, Europe, and Asia.
, Business Manager for Habitat for Humanity in Clay County, said the benefits of this house reach beyond this one family. "AmSouth's partnership with Habitat in building the home in El-Dorado Heights will continue to reap rewards. As the Wheeler family repays Habitat, we will use the repayments toward future home builds. Meanwhile, the family will receive our support on how to be a successful homeowner and how to preserve the property, increasing its value and adding to the family's financial stability."

About AmSouth

AmSouth is a regional bank holding company with $54 billion in assets, more than 680 branch banking offices and over 1,200 ATMs. AmSouth operates in Tennessee Tennessee, state, United States
Tennessee (tĕn`əsē', tĕn'əsē`), state in the south-central United States.
, Alabama Alabama, indigenous people of North America
Alabama (ăləbăm`ə), indigenous people of North America whose language belongs to the Muskogean branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages).
, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia. AmSouth is a leader among regional banks in the Southeast in several key business segments, including consumer and commercial banking, small business banking, mortgage lending, equipment leasing Equipment Leasing is a financing option to lease equipment for a certain amount of time. Leasing Benefits
  • Control secondary market, offer the ability to up-grade and trade-in.
  • Converts cash buyers of small machines to larger, more expensive purchases.
, annuity annuity: see insurance.
annuity

Payment made at a fixed interval. A common example is the payment received by retirees from their pension plan. There are two main classes of annuities: annuities certain and contingent annuities.
 and mutual fund sales, and trust and investment management services. AmSouth also offers a complete line of banking products and services at its web site, www.amsouth.com.
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