Community Corner

Heidi Street Makeover: Remodeling On Track for Two Weekends in June

Only a few materials are needed for donation as neighbors prepare to rebuild, improve dilapidated home of Roger and Sandra Moses.

With two June weekends set for final work, the Heidi Street Makeover project is in its final lap, according to neighbor and organizer Garry Puda.

Only a few items—artificial turf, gravel fill and rolled roofing material—are needed to complete northwest La Mesa’s version of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, says Puda.

He and his wife, Mary, and neighbors Fred and Patty Angulo have commitments of volunteer “muscle” from the La Mesa Rotary Club and the Kiwanis Club of Jamul,  lunches from The Greek Sombrero Restaurant in Spring Valley and supplies from La Mesa Lumber, Frazee Paint, Dixieline and Servpro (a roll-up garage door) among others.

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On Saturday morning, Knock-Em-Out Tree Service of El Cajon will remove trees on the property of Roger and Sandra Moses, whose leaking roof and unsightly home has been considered a blight on Heidi Street—and subject to city legal action.

EDCO will provide Dumpster service and Spanky’s the portable restrooms for work planned for June 4-5 and June 11-12.  Other donors are shown in the attached flier.

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 “It’s bothered me for years and years,” Puda in February said of the peeling-paint home at the corner of Heidi Street and Whitehead Place. “It was getting worse and worse.”

But after years of complaints, he decided it would “take less effort to fix it than complain about it,” Puda said.

Roger Moses is a former AAU and college basketball coach—at MiraCosta in Oceanside and Palomar College in San Marcos. He also led the Fallbrook High School girls team.

But earlier this year, Puda said Moses was unemployed while also helping pay for expensive in-home care of an aunt in Arizona.

“Twenty-four neighbors have volunteered to provide all labor necessary to complete the renovation,” says Puda’s latest update. He can be reached at TheHeidiStreetMakeover@cox.net.


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