Ralmaranda Best, second from right, poses with Brett Thompson, far right, owner of Peachtree Company, John Pickard, sales manager with Owens Corning, second from left, and Jared Bullock, from Peachtree Company, on the far left.
Companies combine efforts to gift Princeton veteran new roof By RANDY CAPPS
PRINCETON — Ralmaranda Best grew up next to the railroad tracks just outside of Princeton. She raised her four sons in the same home, and her dad carved the year “1966” when the concrete was drying on the front porch. Thanks to a leaky roof, recently the house was a little wet on the inside, too. But no longer. Thanks to Purple Heart Homes, Raleigh-based Peachtree Company and Owens Corning, Best now has a new roof on her family home. “I’m so excited,” she said. “Oh my God, I am, so, so excited. ... It was leaking on the back side of the house. It got to the point where it was coming through the sheet rock. When it would rain, it would just kind of puddle there. “I was born and raised right here. I left for a while and came back. I raised 14 | [ JOHNSTON NOW ]
