WEST PARIS —A floor plan for a new home for Beth Coffin, a handicapped 24-year-old West Paris woman, and her family has been drawn up as a committee continues raising money for the project.

“We have about $32,000 and need $115,000 to complete the project,” said Coffin, who lives with her family in a substandard mobile home on High Street. “My home isn’t repairable and that’s why this project has been started,” she said.

Coffin, who wasn’t suppose to live beyond two years, suffers from Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type II, two blood diseases and scoliosis and must use a wheelchair.

The plan is to sell the current property and use the proceeds for another home site. However, recent efforts to get bank loans to buy property have failed, Coffin said.

While a mobile home has been considered as a less expensive alternative, Beth said it would have to be made handicapped accessible with wider doors and a remodeled the bathroom. Additionally, because bedrooms are traditionally placed at opposite ends of the mobile homes, that would be a problem for her mother and caretaker, Bonnie Coffin, who spends much of the day and night going back and forth to her daughter’s room.

The family and committee have held fundraisers, but not all have been profitable.

“The Valentine’s event was fun but we lost $50, unfortunately,” Beth Coffin said.

Events are being planned for St. Patrick’s Day and Easter.

Coffin said the committee is selling T-shirts which read “I Helped Build Beth’s House,” at businesses, including The Lake Store in Norway and West Paris General Store. Committee member Jamie Verrill is taking orders for the T-shirts at (207) 240-9167.

All donations for “Beth’s House” are accepted at any Norway Savings Bank. Tax-deductible contributions may also be mailed to Community Concepts Inc. Attn: Jim Wilkens, 79 Main St., Auburn, ME 04210.

For more information about Beth’s House visit www.youtube.com/users/BethsHouseStar.

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