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22/05/2024Home Repair Contractors

US widower and veteran fights grief and PTSD by offering home repairs – for free | Mississippi

A retired US military veteran is coping with grief from his wife’s death and post-traumatic stress from fighting in the Vietnam war by providing daily handyman services to people in his community – for free.

Danny Chauvin is the so-called “honey-do dude” of Waveland, Mississippi, according to a CBS Evening News profile of him published Friday. He told the news program that one of his favorite parts of his marriage to his wife had been the small, mostly repair and building tasks she would ask him to complete around the house, which Americans colloquially refer to as “honey-do” jobs.

Chauvin,

22/06/2023Home Repair Contractors

U.S. Navy veteran in Tallahassee gifted with new roof

“Thank you, God, and thank you, Tadlock Roofing,” says a man whose wishes were granted Monday after he received the gift of a new roof installation for his family’s home.

Josh Kish, a U.S. Navy veteran who served as an Operations Specialist from 1999 to 2003, had been saving up for a new roof which can cost anywhere from $10,000 to $20,000, which Kish described as a hopeless effort sometimes despite the urgency.

After hearing about constant leaks in the kitchen and into the outlets, a coworker of Kish’s at the Florida Department of State submitted his name to the