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Welcome to HOUSE CALL!
The Official Newsletter of Orleans Habitat for Humanity
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Winter
2012 Newsletter
MESSAGE FROM KAY, PRESIDENT OF ORLEANS HABITAT HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Orleans Habitat for Humanity will be celebrating it's 20th year
as an affiliate in 2012. In these 20 years we have built 12 homes,
completed 1 rehab project and have begun our second rehab. All this
has been done mostly by volunteers and basically funded by the very
generous people of Orleans County. We all should be very proud of
this organization and it's many dedicated volunteers as we work
to help families own their own homes in Orleans county.
We have been fortunate this past year to have formed a relationship
with Orleans BOCES and Orleans- Genesee Community Action. The hard
working students from the BOCES building trades program worked along
side our volunteers in our first rehab project. This project began
January 2011 and in June the Cody family moved in. What cooperation
between the 3 groups! This past fall saw the students again working
with our volunteers at our West Oak Orchard St., Medina project.
This home as been extensively gutted, an addition built and the
roof on the west side replaced. Interior framing will begin in February.
Saturday December 10th saw a very dedicated group of volunteers
and some BOCES students setting roof trusses. Try to remember that
day- the temps never got above 25 degrees, yet the workers stayed
until the very last roof truss was securely in place. Another community
organization, GCASA, supplied lunch and hot coffee for the volunteers
that day.
In February Mae Thompson and her daughter, Betesha, of Albion will
become our newest family as they move into our Crimson Dr. home.
This home, built earlier for another family, has found Mae and family
members working hard for several weeks scrubbing, painting and performing
other tasks getting the home prepared for their moving in. We are
very excited for Mae and look forward to this new partnership. I
wonder what the next 20 years will bring?
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