A 66-year-old registered nurse and social worker in West Roxbury, who dedicated her life to serving others, will have her residence restored with free building products after a contractor abandoned the renovations and left her gutted home with no heating or plumbing. City officials notified Rebuilding Together Boston about the homeowner's plight and requested the organization's help.

"When we heard about her story, we sympathized with the situation," said Martine L. Taylor, director of Rebuilding Together Boston. "Many low-income families in Boston need a safe and stable home environment, and it is our mission to support them." Since 1991, Rebuilding Together has rehabilitated 164 homes of low-income families in Boston.

On June 20 and 21, the West Roxbury residence will undergo extensive renovations, including repairing floors and walls with Georgia-Pacific materials such as Plytanium(R) plywood and DensArmor(R)Plus interior gypsum paperless wallboard, which is moisture and mold resistant.

"We will mobilize caring people with quality products to help families repair their homes, and at the same time begin revitalization in their neighborhoods," said Alan Thielemann, Georgia-Pacific's vice president of building products marketing. "Georgia-Pacific is glad to be a part of this worthy cause and our employees enjoy giving back to the community in this way."

The Healthy Homes Tour makes stops in select cities where a Georgia- Pacific Grand Champions event is played, like this week at the 25th Anniversary Bank of America Championship taking place at the Nashawtuc Country Club in Concord, Mass., from Monday, June 20, to Sunday, June 26. The Boston Healthy Homes project will bring together Champions Tour players Dave Stockton, Bruce Summerhays and Rocky Thompson, Rebuilding Together Boston volunteers and Georgia-Pacific's Newington, N.H., employee volunteers.

"Our players can't wait to roll up their sleeves to help out this homeowner in Boston," said Champions Tour president Rick George. "This is a perfect example of how our tournaments, sponsors and players come together each and every week to give back to the communities where we play."

Earlier this year, the PGA TOUR launched its national season long Drive to a Billion campaign, the largest sports charity campaign in history, aimed at reaching the $1 billion milestone in charitable donations this year. The PGA TOUR is the only professional sports league designed to donate its net proceeds from tournaments to local charities.

The next Healthy Homes Tour stops coincide with the Constellation Energy Classic in Baltimore, Sept. 12 - 18, and the Georgia-Pacific Grand Champions Championship in Atlanta, Sept. 19 - 23.

As projected from Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies, the current 24 million low-income homeowners in the United States will increase to 28.5 million by the year 2010. According to the 2004 report, more than 2.5 million low-income seniors are challenged with maintaining their homes due to a fixed income and physical limitations.

"Georgia-Pacific is involved in rebuilding the homes of low-income residents because we want to help raise national awareness of this serious issue," Thielemann added.

About the Georgia-Pacific Grand Champions Competition

Since 1999, Georgia-Pacific has been the title sponsor of the Grand Champions "tournament within a tournament," which features players age 60 and older who are entered in full-field Champions Tour events.

This year's players include such luminaries as Lee Trevino, Gary Player, Dave Stockton, Mike Hill, Raymond Floyd, Bob Charles, Jim Dent, Bob Murphy, Isao Aoki, Miller Barber, Graham Marsh, Bruce Summerhays, J.C. Snead and Jay Sigel. Turning 60 this year and becoming eligible for the championship are Hale Irwin, John Jacobs and Mike McCullough.

The 2005 season-ending Georgia-Pacific Grand Champions tournament will be held at Atlanta's Hawks Ridge Golf Club on Sept. 22 and 23, and will offer a purse of $400,000 -- the largest overall Grand Champions purse of the year. For more information, visit www.gp.com/golf.

About the Partners

Washington, D.C.-based Rebuilding Together is the nation's largest volunteer-based organization that restores and revitalizes America's low- income houses and communities. With the support of leading corporations, Rebuilding Together has rehabilitated more than 96,000 homes and non-profit facilities since 1988.

Headquartered at Atlanta, Georgia-Pacific is one of the world's leading manufacturers and marketers of tissue, packaging, paper, building products and related chemicals. With 2004 annual sales of $20 billion, the company employs approximately 55,000 people at more than 300 locations in North America and Europe. Georgia-Pacific's building products manufacturing business has long been among the nation's leading suppliers of building products to lumber and building materials dealers and large do-it-yourself warehouse retailers. For more information, visit www.gp.com.

The Champions Tour is a tax-exempt membership organization of professional golfers age 50 and older. Conceived in 1980 as the Senior PGA Tour, it started with just four events and purses totaling $475,000. The Champions Tour has grown to 28 official Charles Schwab Cup events offering $50.3 million (minimum) prize money in 2005 and its highest average purse ever of $1.8 million. The three Tours of the PGA TOUR and their tournaments have generated more than $960 million for charity since the first recorded donation was made in 1938, with almost $89 million raised in 2004 alone.

Source: Georgia-Pacific Corp.

CONTACT: Robin Keegan of Georgia-Pacific, +1-404-652-4713; or Jennifer
Shreve of Rebuilding Together, +1-202-518-3121; or Jeff Adams of the Champions
Tour, +1-904-273-3397

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