Peninsula Heating & Air, located on Route 17 at Ordinary, will hold its seventh annual Project Comfort & Joy contest in which one local, deserving homeowner will win a heating and cooling system.

PHA will begin accepting applications to win the system Monday, Nov. 3, and will draw a winner on Friday, Dec. 19.

Karen Smith, who owns PHA with her husband Stephen, said that applicants must agree to allow a PHA representative to inspect their home to make sure there is an existing ducted heating/cooling system. But only the top five applications will actually receive in-home visits and be in the running for the ultimate prize which might be worth up to $7,500.

Trane will donate the heating/cooling system for the second straight year, Smith said, while PHA will supply some of the equipment and a number of its employees have volunteered to install the new system on their off time. PHA workers will install the system in one day, Smith said, instead of what might be a multi-day job w...