Fives homes will be built at Channel Cove this summer

Five affordable homes will be built this summer at Home Trust of Skagit’s Channel Cove campus. “We are out for bids,” Jodi Dean, Home Trust of Skagit director, told the Weekly News Tuesday. “The building committee will look at those bids at the end of the month.” Her cautiously optimistic goal is to have families gathering in their living rooms around their Christmas trees in December.

The homes will be sited at the north end of the campus, off Park Street south of Caledonia. There will be three single family homes and a side-by-side duplex. All are two story, with three bedrooms and two baths...