WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) – A unique student project will be auctioned off tomorrow at CFCC’s North Campus in Castle Hayne.

Students in CFCC’s carpentry program built a 1,000 square-foot home, located at 2210 Sidbury Road. The students worked on the home three semesters and finished it earlier this summer.

The exterior of the house is planked with cedar siding and has a large front porch. Interior features include three bedrooms, two full baths, and a roughed in mechanical system including an installed evaporator, duct system and condenser. The house meets the rough in requirements of the New Hanover Building Inspectors.

Proceeds of the sale will go back into the carpentry program, which gives students  hands-on training in residential construction.

WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) - The National Center for the Prevention of Home Improvement Fraud (NCPHIF) will hold a “SmartPower” workshop on “Protecting Yourself from Home Repair Contractor Fraud and Scams.” 

The workshop will be held on Saturday, August 4, 2012, at the David M. Paynter Assembly Room, Northeast Regional Library, 1241 Military Cutoff Road, Wilmington, NC 28405,  10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.   The workshop is free and open to the public.

The NCPHIF is holding the workshop because they get lost of phone calls from homeowners who have been scammed. These workshops are held all over the country including Joplin, Missouri and Birmingham, Alabama where major tornadoes ripped houses apart. 

 During the workshop attendees will learn how to recognikze typical scams, how to find and check out a contractor, whay you will want included in your contract and much more.

WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) - Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity and the Wilmington Fire Department spent Tuesday night teaching local Wilmington Habitat homeowners the importance of fire safety. Habitat and the Fire Department hosted a fire safety event in Habitat’s subdivision, the Cottages at Cornerstone, to teach adults the proper way to handle a fire extinguisher and how to react in case of an emergency. Children were treated to fun fire-related activities and helped plan their family’s evacuation routes.

Engine 3 Captains D.L. McDowell, as well as Captain Ken Bogan and Fire Safety Instructors Meg Langston and Wendy Giannini-King orchestrated a fun-filled evening, teaching Habitat homeowners how to effectively extinguisher a fire, the best place in a home to store extinguishers and the importance of having an exit strategy in case of a fire.

Homeowners were given the opportunity to shoot the extinguishers at a controlled and manipulated fire simulator, used for practice by the fire department. No one under 18 years of age was allowed to handle the extinguishers, but children were allowed to sit on the fire truck and designate an assigned meeting place for the family in the event of an actual fire.