IN THE NEWS: A family is reunited, strengthened in Northern Illinois

(Hardware Retailing Magazine) Barbara and Jacorey Jenkins tried to do right by their three children, but long commutes to difficult jobs and inadquate housing were tearing them apart at the seams. But when they partnered with the Fuller Center Hero Project of Lake County to renovate and purchase a home in Waukegan, Illinois, everything began to change for the better — much better. Click here to read the article about this transformation in the most recent issue of Hardware Retailing magazine.

We checked in with Barbara in August to see how life is going since the family moved into their home: