MADISON — Many hands make light work.
That was never more evident than on Thursday, when 14 kids in grades 7-9, from across Mount Washington Valley — campers from the MWV School to Career’s weeklong summer construction camp — joined forces with MWV Habitat for Humanity at a construction project in Eidelweiss.
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