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building, thinking green, not just for the holidays but for our homes and community..today i was honored to be on a flood radio show with Mayor Otis of Rye, Supervisor Valerie Okeefe of Larchmont, and City Manager Chuck STrome of New rochelle..George Lattimer State Assembly called in as well..what world do we have, how do we protect homes from the floods, what have we accomplished in Mamoroneck..and how do we not let flooding happen again..all items of the day, no question...

these are green questions, development questions...questions of water run off, how do we leave our world for the future with our families, our grandchildren...

we will be introducing on our web site, info on green building regularly...no question, how to make our communtiies green, how to change things for the future..

how do we drive less, do we pave our driveways or not, do we stop waterrunnoff..

all important questions..I sat with Steve and Rich and Fred, building on our homes and our discussion on how we make our world better for the futrure, our homes greener ..this can all happen, stay tune for more info..as we seek to be on the cutting edge..with gratitude..Jim Killoran

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A MEETING BREAKFAST WITH GREAT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BUSINESSES IN YONKERS, THECOUNTY EXECUTIVE...MAYOR AMICONE, KEN JENKINS, LIONS CLUB MEMBERS AND MORE...

WHAT A GREAT MEETING..IT WAS...THE COUNTY EXEC THANKED US AND STATED THE NUMBER ONE NEED IN THE COUNTY WAS AFFORDABLE HOUSING, NO QUESTION...HE ALSO CITED OUR WORK WITH FLOOD VICTIMS IN MAMORONECK WHICH WE APPRECIATED..HOWEVER TIME TO MAKE IT RIGHT..TO GET HOMES BUILT, TO FIX FLOOD PROBLEMS TO MOVE AHEAD.

 

TOMORROW ON WVOX NOV WE ARE ON A FLOOD SPECIAL MEETING AT 8AM....

THIS IS SOMETHING WHICH WE KNOW IS NEEDED NO QUESTION..TO FIX THE PROBLEMS..

TOMORROW THE SHOW IS NOV 27TH..

 

JOIN US..

ALSO JOIN US AS WE BUILD INTO THE FUTURE, WE NEED YOUR HOLIDAY HELP NOW..HAVE I SAID THAT BEFORE..OF COURSE..

ALSO AS I WALKED INTO BREAKFAST THE MAYOR SPOKE TO ME AND SAID, JIM WE HAD SOME STABBINGS IN ONE OF YOUR NEIGHBORHOODS....THIS HURTS BUT I KNOW WE WILL HELP TO TURN OVER THIS NEIGHBORHOOD, ONCE WE GET HOMES IN THERE GOING..THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS, WE HELP STABILIZE NEIGHBORHOODS WITH HELP..AND HOMES AND HEARTS AND HAMMERS AND GODS HELP AND YOURS...SO WATCH OVER ALL OF US, PROTECT US LORD FROM FLOODS, FROM STABBINGS, FROM OTHER THINGS, LET US MOVE AHEAD AS WE CHANGE LIVES TOGETHER..JJK

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To what do we owe this day, of thanks..to our God of all religions that loves us, embraces us and holds us in the arms of his hands..so many memories, so much to be thankful for..so muchto be grateful for every day.. no question..

With that in mind we celebrate..with joy and gladness to our God..and for you..

Homes, our roofs, our hands our hearts are all there..we are here, sharing, preparing, cooking, laughing, remembering..

And whether the home is a basement, or a small garage, or one room, or a mansion, it is a place that love needs to be shared..

So many live in dwellings unacceptable to the average person, so many come here to this country in dreams of ahome.. and so many are born in this country who don’t think they can get one..

But with Gods help, yours and mine we will see great success, see great joy and great happiness… no question..

We are so grateful on this day of Thanks..may it be a day of thanks and peace around the world, in our country, in your home and in your heart..with joy for your reading this, Jim Killoran

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Black Friday they call it..

what a day, people running at 4am to stores now, moving ahead to buy their gifts for Christmas..we have our opportunities to see what gift you can bring to help us.. to see what we can do bring joy to others in the form of helping to have a home...would you see what upi can do to help someone have a home!!! we need your help for our families .sponsor windows, doors, etc, this is the time we shop till we drop, but can you stop from your shopping and remember us..most appreciated..

 

also today we will be having our RESTORES open..our holiday gifts are in, books are now being sold..and our new cabinets and tiles..are in..

come and visit us.. also we are hoping to get a bigger place..stay tuned,...God bless you all, jjk

 

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!! THE HOLIDAYS CAN BE GREAT..GOOD OR BAD, FOR SOME OR MANY..NEVER A DULL MOMENT, FOR SURE.. WE ARE SURROUNDED BY CONSUMERISM..BUY AT 4AM, BUY AT 2AM, GO INTO SHOP FOR BEST DEALS..BUY BUY BUY!!!!!

SEE FAMILYMEMBERS YOU MAY OR MAY  NOT LOVE..SEE PEOPLE WHO YOU MAY HAVE A HRD TIME WITH OUR NOT...BUT WHAT CAN WE DO TO MAKE THEM SPECIAL..TO HAVE EXTRA PEACE IN OUR LIVES...TO ASSIST IN MAKING OUR WORLD A BETTER PLACE..TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT..IT IS A RAINY MONDAY MORNING TODAY, A DAY WHEN AFTER THANKSGIVING, NO ONE WANTS TO MOVE PER SE..BUT IF YOU DO, AND PUT ONE FOOT IN FRONT OF THE OTHER, PRAY FOR PEACE, ACT FOR JUSTICE, DO GREAT AT WORK, AND HELP  OTHERS, YOU WILL HAVE SO MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR.. MAKE A DONATION TO SOMEONE TODAY..YOU WILL HAVE THINGS CHANGE FOR YOU..TIME TO MAKE THIS HOLIDAY SEASON THE BEST YOU CAN....KNOW THAT EVERYDAY WE WILL BE PRAYING FOR YOU AT HABITAT, AND FOR OUR FAMILIES AND FOR PEACE IN YOUR OWN HOMES AS WELL AS IN OUR FAMILIES HOMES AND HOMES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY AND WORLD..ALSO I WILL HILITE A SPECIAL NOTE ON PLACES WE TITHE TOO, LIKE TAJIKISTAN, IN MY BLOG, WHO CAME HERE, AND THANKED ME PESONALLY ALONG WITH MY BROTHER PETER, FROM NORTHERN IRELAND, FOR OUR WORK AND DONATIONS TO THEIR VITAL HOME BUILDING...AND LAST PRAY TODAY AND IF YOU DO YOU WILLHAVE PEACE AND THANKSGIVING IN YOUR HOME, IN YOUR HEART, IN YOUR LIFE...   HERES TO THE BEST!!!!!!!

JJK

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a great weekend, from wjcc, to Christ Church of Bronxville to Larchmont Temple to Yonkers High School to Citibank employees to Solomon Schecter...all volunteering before thanksgiving, great Mitzvah, great charity..great corporate volunteerism, we are so grateful...also our family Grace and Anthony volunteering in our restore..

 

We are positioned for our 20th anniversary, for a great year ahead...

for what we need to do..nov 26th our house panels go up on Purser Place..and our homeowners are giving Thanks for the work that goes on...and for their homes...we have so much to be grateful for..and for you..jjk

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HOPES...WE ARE EXCITED TO CELEBRATE HOPES ALL OUR RETIREES..LIKE JOHN GALLAGHER AND RON WALKER, GREAT LEADERS WHO HAVE HELPED US SO MUCH, OR BOB CUNIO..OR OTHERS.. WE HAVE SO MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE HELPED US, IT IS A GREAT BLESSING...PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN LIFE, HELPING US NOW WITH THEIR EXPERIENCES...WHO NOW HELP US...GUIDING US, RAISING SUPPORT, HOMES, HAMMERING NAILS...LIKE RICH RODRIGUE OF CON EDISON, OR WARREN WHO WORKS IN NEW ROCHELLE, OR FRED IN RYE, OR JERY RETIRED IBMER IN PEEKSKILL, OR RUTH FROM MT VERNON WHO HAS BEEN A MENTOR, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR YOUR GUIDANCE, SUPPORT AND HELP..EXPERIENCE IS EVERYTHING...THERE IS HOPE, THERE IS HOPES!

JJ

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the day that was.. as we prepare tomorrow for a historic 20th anniversary kickoff Walk for Homes Now! we celebrate the preparation with our buildign with groups like Horace Greeley, Eastchester High school, Bedford Presbyterian church and Bronxville Reformed church all helping to build throughout the town and county along with Taconic Builders.....that means today we built in New Rochelle, Bedford Mamoroneck, Yonkers and Rye...we were asked today to help in Mt Kisco again... an elderly person begged me for a plumber and electrician i have no money to pay to connect their utilities...we need your help......

also a court advocate wrote me she couldn't believe we couldn't respond overnite to a Veteran in need this Veterans Day...we are doing what we can.. but we can only do it if you make special pledges and commitments to us financially today...i can tackle their needs if you help fill my bills being pad with a donation today...my board of directors has been great..running with me as responding to needs...we cant do it all, but together we can....if you help

Tomorrow a historic Walk for homes  1pm at St. Augustines church in larchmont...will you join us, will you pledge me..will you make a multi year pledge in honor of our 20th anniversary kickoff...EVERYONE A HOME...IN OUR LIFETIME..WHY NOT, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR.. GOD BLESS, JJK

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headlines today tell of the Pope coming to America, to Yonkers NY `on days that we will see the election in full swing, days when we will be in full swing with hammers as well...and another story talks about the Georgia Governor holding a day of prayer for rain in the South.. a day when there is a need for drastic measures due to lack of rain...for those of us who have faith of any kind...we celebrate efforts such as these..efforts for more hilited spiritual recognition of the one God we all believe in...if there was another 911 we would be quick to call prayer services everywhere....yet the Governor of Georgia is chastised..though they are in desperate situations..situations of rain drought that could happen here in a minute.. we wake up on a gray rainy day, but with gladness if we think of it..people would be standing on their tables praising God, Jewish Christian Muslim and no faith, if they had the slight rain we had today here in New York...

do we get ready to pray everyday, for thanksgiving, during crisis, during normal times..are we chastised in our own circles...know that Habitat workers on the whole know there is a higher power that this ministry that welcomes all, is successful because of prayer, and only because of the theology of the Hammer and hearts hands hanmers and help from you..

 

Tomorrow is an excitiing day, our HOPES seniors group comes together to discuss getting more retirees involved..yesterday I discussed with Mattergy solar energy company about solar panels to go on our homes and on our Restore, and fiinally the panel foundations from Altus and Olde Castle come down to start four new homes for the holidays...What a blessed event.. for this and for you we are thankful...

Two things i ask you to pray for, for Veterans Homes to be built by Habitat for those returning from war, and for our Holiday  Homes...one more thing, for our friends in Atlanta, and in Argentina and for Habitats all over the world, for homes and healthy environment...know you are in my prayers this day.. with gratitude, jjk

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mickey minnie..pluto all working on our sites...120 Disney employees working all over our neighborhoods in Yonkers...a great day, brisk, yet productive as many VOLUNTEARS were out there working on our sites..doing great things...no question...making a community garden, helping to paint homes, helping to rehab a house, all in the name of helping....our relationship goes back to the Regis and Kelly house we worked on and took down on 57th Street on the West End years ago...(see Daily News Regis and Kelly house..habitat)  it was an amaizng event, no question...

Corporations can change the world, I was honored to speak to Russ Hamptom the President as he painted the porch on his knees, the floor there, next to Mike a Production manager...Russ is a great guy, down to earth and so grateful to be part of what we were doing, no question.seeing his employees, getting out there doing great things, team building, helping a neighborhood....that's what there gift of communithy service is in the business world..today American Express comes out to help us...also Commerce Bank kicked off last nite their Coins for Caring and Nickels forNails program.. a great thing...so get your company or group involved, we need you ... the world to Change..Walt Disney would be proud...jjk

 

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Election nite ...2007..

tonite i will be on larchmont lmctv. and wvox..with commentary..

last nite as i spoke on Sam's radio show, head of the NAACP, we spoke about too much smoke and mirrors and no real significant thing being accomplished in terms of homes for Americans in one of the wealthiest counties in the world...  Communities hope for the best..they work hard, they seek to have the American Dream...politicans talk about building it, for ten years with developers help..but nothing is done...

on  a large scale....versus nyc we look like puppies in terms of neogitating...

It is time for us to be passionate again for the sake of the American Dream and dreams across this country and world...God wants this for us for all faiths and religions no question...and we can make this happen..we can help to see that people have homes, that their are opportunities here..no question.

we need your help in this vital cause..as we embark on such success, we step in Faith, in hope and in action..Let this be an historic election day...and may be make things happen that will help us for the future of our grandkids for this country and for the world.. be blessed as Sharon from New Orleans says to me..get out and vote and may tomorrow be a great new start for us all.

jjk

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Appointed, annointed, elected, a big week for elections, a big week for so much for us here.

Our weekend, our Mondays and Tuesdays, were successful in the way that we had Grenwich Associates work so hard, on our sites their first time...also we had Trinity Pawling school come all the way with the help of Keegan, one of my summer youth leaders...renamed Cool Breeze.. as many in the summer get Habitat knicknames, brought his school down to help us. We also had Mt. St. Vincents, the New Rochelle Alternative School, the Hackley school and many more.. I also spoke Friday to a strong assembly at

Harvey School...we are blessed to have so many companies youth syngagues, churches, helping us all the time....God is good all the Time, Don Moen sings..we are led as the Psalmist says to build our houses on good foundations and we do it with so many in Service.

 

I will be creating a special thanksgiving day of service to the youth of New Rochelle and the county in the near future..our future is bright with our Youth.

And our older Youth our retirees guide us all with enthusiasm, experience, wisdom, strength to help our future so much..

Stay tuned for a busy week...Commerce Bank holds their thank you this week to assist us in our work with flood victims...we also have our Big Walk for Homes, this week, come with a sign you believe people should have homes.. this coming Sunday... ABC Disney comes out for the first time to our sites in Yonkers.. working with us...and our Restores have special sales this week..its all good, you are all good, lets keep it going as we prepare for our 20th Annierversary of Habitat of Westcvhester, The Excitement has only just begun, and is building strongly with you....may you be blessed in your work!!!!! jjk`

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