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From Gray LaFortune, Executive Director of CTIOA:

“This is a great way for our industry to demonstrate how our people and products can benefit families in our local communities. We believe that tile manufacturers, distributors and contractors across the country can truly make a difference working toward the Habitat goal of eliminating substandard housing.”

Ceramic Tile Institute of America:
Jimmy Carter Work Project LaGrange (Georgia, June 2004)

The Ceramic Tile Institute of America helped coordinate and plan the tile industry’s participation in the Jimmy Carter Work Project. CTIOA Executive Director Gray LaFortune and Assistant Director Paul Wilson donated four days of labor in LaGrange. Both men installed tile and trained other volunteers to install tile in the homes.

 
TPFH Executive Director Ally Fertitta and CTIOA Executive Director Gray LaFortune review plans for tile installation in 21 homes in LaGrange. (June 12, 2003)   CTIOA Executive Director Gray LaFortune tiles the kitchen/dining/entryway in the new home of Tina Williams. (June 11, 2003)
     
 
TPFH’s Sean Rapp, standing, visits with CTIOA Executive Director Gray LaFortune and Assistant Director Paul Wilson before they begin tiling homes in LaGrange, Ga. (June 11, 2003)   CTIOA Executive Director Gray LaFortune uses LATICRETE thinset and NATTCO tools to install Crossville tile in the home of Tina Williams. (June 11, 2003).
     
 
CTIOA Executive Director Gray LaFortune and Assistant Director Paul Wilson stand with proud homeowner Tina Williams as they tile her home. (June 11, 2003)   CTIOA Executive Director Gray LaFortune teaches two volunteers from the Georgia Baptist Builders group to spread thinset and set tile in Tonya Gay’s home in LaGrange. (June 12, 2003)