Rotary Club of Fallbrook builds for the future

FALLBROOK – The Rotary Club of Fallbrook was one of six organizations that sent volunteers to a Project Mercy home building event in October. The club's president-elect, Allison Barclay, brought a group of young women to the event site in Chula Vista, where they spent their Saturday framing interior and exterior walls, building roof segments and joists, and painting plywood walls.

COVID-19 safety protocols were in place as volunteers hammered, sawed and painted throughout the day. Once completed, house components built by the volunteers were loaded onto trucks for transport to Mexico. In Mexic...