Kurt Warner, wife, volunteers build home in Czech Village

Cedar Rapids native Kurt Warner is retired from football but not from helping his hometown. Tuesday, the Super Bowl Champion and his wife helped volunteers build the 100th Cedar Valley Habitat For Humanity home. Just as important is where that home went up ... in the once-flooded section of the Czech Village. The Warner's work is just one step in the recovery process.

More than two dozen people hammered in nails. They cut and trimmed lumber and worked in the rain and then sweltering heat to give this woman and her three kids a new home.

“All the support all the help it's amazing,” said new homeowner Amber Titlbach.

That Support and help included two familiar faces. Kurt Warner and his wife, Brenda put on their visors and got down to work for the third year in a row since the floods of 2008.

“The reason we're come back three straight years is because it's still a process,” said Cedar Rapids native and retired NFL quarterback Kurt Warner. “I think we knew from the get-go it was going to be a long process and putting up a home this quickly, it doesn't happen overnight.”

But progress is evident by looking around the Czech Village: new homes going up, businesses back open and the return of Houby Days. It's a far cry from the flooded ruins of the neighborhood in 2008.

“It's going up so quick and so fast it's going to be here in no time at all,” said Titlbach.

Brenda Warner has a special connection to people these homes will help.

“When I met Kurt, I was on food stamps, a single mom in low income housing,” said Brenda Warner.

Now she's helping fellow single-mom, Amber Titlbach, have a place to call home.

“It's ours. We can do what we want with it; make it our own,” said Titlbach.

This home is a small example of the new face of the Czech Village as flooded reminders of the past are finally starting to wash away.