Brewster, Ohio:  The day after raising $90,000 for Pegasus Farm, Shearer’s Foods’ Executive Team began the first day of construction (September 13, 2011) on the Shearer’s-sponsored  Habitat for Humanity house in Massillon, Ohio.  CEO Bob Shearer, President Scott W. Smith and CFO Fritz Kohmann led a group of 11 Shearer’s Vice Presidents in framing the house located at 383 McKinley Avenue SW in the Columbia Heights district.

“Building our Habitat house gives Shearer’s associates a great opportunity to support a family right here in our community, while reinforcing our family-like company values,” says Bob Shearer.

Associates from the Brewster, Massillon and Navarre Shearer’s locations will be participating in the home building process.  Many of them will be getting off the Midnight Shift at 8:00 a.m. and going directly to the project.  The majority of the building process should be completed by early November.

“We think it says a whole lot about a company and its leadership when they give back to the community in they work in such a big way,” said Beth Lechner, Executive Director of Habitat.

Founded in 1988,  Habitat for Humanity of Greater Stark and Carroll Counties is a hand up not a hand out ministry.  It is proven program to help working people achieve the dream of homeownership through a 20-year no interest mortgage, giving them a safe place for their children to sleep, a future they can control and a neighborhood they can contribute to!

Shearer’s Senior Vice President of Co-Pack Operations, Steve Surmay, serves on the Habitat Board.