Little did the 8th grades from St. Helen's School realize their hand prints would become part of the logo for the Saginaw Habitat for Humanity Blitz 2001.

On September 26, 2000, the students and their teacher, Bobbi Beyerlein, spent five hours volunteering at the Habitat warehouse - painting risers and handrails used within the facitity and drywall benches used on site during the Blitz.

Habitat volunteer Laura Fox reports the students mixed leftover gallons of paint and used their own creativity, creating sky blue backgrounds with sponge clouds over top, heart shapes, flicking-paint patterns, and even red and white stick figures.

Toward the end they added their own handprints in different colors. "One of the girls said it was to show how Saginaw can be united," Fox reports.

When the Blitz publicity committee adopted "It Takes a Team to Build a Dream" for this years Blitz, Saginaw Valley State University student Alina Doud took the handprints Fox photographed and used them in the design of the photo.