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how do we look at different things in life, how do we see things move ahead..each day is a journey in the right direction if we want it to be..same with communities..just keep in the right direction and even small steps of improvement can turn into large steps of success..and change lives and communities forever..

ABC Disney called again yesterday to me..hi we want to come out again and help you with seventy employees...you know we have four more homes in that neighborhood now, i retort with joy...you all are part of it, you will see dramatic changes..no question...

we have kicked out drug dealers, donated a refrigerator to a teachers room that had no for the faculty, painted the playground, and helped to change the quality of life there in a big way..what a great gift for us and for your volunteers..

small steps in the right direction..

 

Greem Moment:  tomorrow i propose a meeting with changing the rooftop of a house with a Green roof, putting a green roof on top of the buildings...lets see what we can do...lets hope..in downtown new rochelle...Yesterday at a BID meeting I proposed totally increasing free public transportation for the pbulic, bringing more customers, less cars and fun ways of community...we have to go Green now now question.

 

Green Moment: Yesterday we also had our partners Evolution Markets make a big announcemnet, we are going to be of help to you....

more to follow, a four year commitment..great news~!

 

Sustainable Moment:  knocking down buildings is not green but creates more use of energy and problems..

saving history is GREEN

 

and remember through it all you can STAND STAND RISE UP AND STAND..for our one God is good to us all, wants victories of Green and healthier communities so many decades from now we will all have changed the pendulum back in a direction not dependant upon oil, but upon healthier, home ownership alternatives...

Last we welcome Green Tree Energy Services here continuing with their audits..

God bless you all!!!! jjk

 

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hope all is well, each day is gift for sure..praying for you and yours today, from our habitat families to yours..

today volunteers from Goldman and Bedford Presbyterian church as well as others come out and help us...in so many ways...teenagers adults, and more....

with that in mind we celebrate the gift of helping others, of giving, of helping others have a home...

also today we make a big decision on our new location of our construction school of training and new Restore location..all so valuable to saving the environment, helping to generate income creatively and helping our world be a better place, no question....

so another Sat. here in Westchester and around the world..where homes are being built, where lives are being changed and hopes are being raised in the forms of walls, sweat equity and hammers. God bless,

help us now please, jjk

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so here we are on a Sunday, at the Restore...i often speak at different congregations, but when not, i am at the Restore on a Sunday morning,a  ministry in itself..helping people get a bed who dont have one, bendeciones for many, blessings for others, hope for others,a kind word...a great sale, an offer to pray for the father of someone, a person who is sick, or a great day for all...this is our ministry, somewhat like a street ministry we wish all blessings on this Sunday...many dress up on Sunday, what do they do on Monday, we ask you this Monday to pray for us, reach out and help someone, and hopefrully make a special ministry gift to Habitat as we continue to change the world..Gods blessings...

 

Green Moment:   remember used recycle bags, you can get one from us at the Restore...for one dollar donation.. no more plastic, too much oil, non environmental friendly..

 

a music So No moment...July 3rd, our local policeman with his band will be playing, talendted, gifted, he will kick off a summer of singing and talent in So No New Ro..no question..

then the trolley is coming July `2th, stay tuned..jjk

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how do we move ahead in our world..excitingly with participation, hope and optimism..

yesterday.. i had the opportunity to attend a set of neighborhood meetings, where the number one topic was how few people particpated like days of old...that there was a need to get more people involved in our participation process...it was good to know that many are focusing on getting more people out participating in the future..get involved in your neighborhood..with people driving less, with Examine me oh Lord and prove me, try my reins in my hearts, the psalmist says...we are called to participate in this great country, taught to in a number of ways...in a record year of voters being registerered we need to see participatory government and neighborhood associations...too many meetings have been held in secret without process...more to follow..

 

Yesterday i had three guests come in..i woke up stating we need to tithe to a third world country, part of what we are required to do as affiliates....we have contributed to India, Tajikistan, El Salvador, New Orleans, and Jamaica in honor of Nick one of our students volunteering on the A Team this summer...and after that my three guests came in who said, we want tohelp you, and continued to support us in a huge way...to help us get our new Construction school and Restore off the ground...a great thing.. God is good to us every day every minute every second and when we give collectively or individually God always blesses it...and us..so as we build on homes today, on our homes, and help others in so many ways..please consider helping us today with a donation .........with great gratitude. jjk

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TO WHAT DO WE OWE THIS BREATHE OUR EXISTENCE OUR SAFETY, TO GOD LET US PRAISE HIM STILL ...THUS SAITH THE LORD THE HOLY ONE OF ISREAEIL, THE REDEMMER..IN THE BOOK OF iSAIAH...TEACHING US PROFITABLE THINGS...OUR REDEEMER...I

WHEN I SEE MISSOURI OR IOWA. UNDER FLOOD, AND REALIZE HOW EVERY MINUTE IS GIFT, IT IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO REALIZE HOW GOOD GOD IS TO ALL OF US, WHETHER WE ARE HIT BY A FLOOD OR NO FLOOD, EACH MINIUTE TO BE ALIVE IS GIFT..WITH GREAT GRATITUDE...

I WENT TO MY SONS GRADUATION YESTERDAY..WITH GREAT GRATITUDE..THANK GOD, HE MADE IT, HES ON TO COLLEGE GOD WILLING AND THE OTHER RIGHT BEHIND..THIS TOO IS OUR HOPE FOR OUR FAMILY MEMBERS, FOR THE PEOPLE WHO NEED A HOME AND HOPE, AN AMERICAN DREAM...

 

FOR SO MANY SEEING THIS OPPORTUNITY HAS BEEN OUT OF REACH, BUT YOU CAN HELP MAKE IT REACHABLE..ISAIAH WANTED IT FOR PEOPLE TO LIVE HOLY, GODLY, AND WITH HOPE AND HOMES...YOU ARE THE REPAIRER OF THE BREACH A VERSE SAYS...AND AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE WE WILL SERVE THE LORD....

 

NO MATTER WHAT GOD YOU BELIEVE IN, WHAT FAITH...WE ARE CALLED TO HAVE HOPE AND LOVE AND HELP ONE ANOTHER, THIS IS AT THE HEART OF OUR MISSION..MAY IT BE AT THE HEART OF WHAT YOU DO TODAY, IN HELPING SOMEONE IN THE OFFICE, IN YOUR TRAVELS IN YOUR INTERACTIONS WITH EVERYONE...

 

 

THANKS TO CREDIT SUISSE YESTERDAY WHO CAME OUT IN LARGE NUIMBERS WITH OUR BUILDERS CAMPERS...WORKING TOGETHER, LEARNING BUILDING, HELPING TO BRING HOPE AND HOMES TO A NEIGHBORHOOD...THANKS TO OUR TEEN VOLUNTEERS, AND THANKS TO YOU FOR READING THIS TODAY..

A PRAYER FOR ONE ANOTHER ALWAYS APPRECIATED AND MAY YOU HAVE GREAT HOPE IN YOUR LIFE TODAY AND HELP REACHOUT TO SOMEONE AS WELL..JJK

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GREEN MOMENT..

 

GREEN ROOFS GREEN WALLS, A COMAPNY WRITES..WWW.GREENSULATE.COM

CAN WE MAKE OUR BUILDINGS GREEN..GOD KNOWS WE HAVE CONCRETED OUR WORLD..(PROBABLYNOT A WORD) SO THAT WE HAVE LESS GRASS, TREES WITH NO STREETS..SURFACES THAT CREATE FLOODS OF WATER RUNOFFF..BUT THEN THERE ARE GROUPS LIKE GREENSULATE.COM  MEETING THEM AT THE JAVITS CENTER...WE SAW THAT GREE ROOFS CAN CUT ENERGY COSTS AND IMPROVE PROPERTY VALUES...THEY ADD SERVERAL POINTS TO LEED CERTIFICATION...THEY IMPROVE INDOOR AIR QUALITY...COSTS THAT ARE LESS THAN A TRADITIONAL ROOF..THEY WILL BE PART OF OUR GREEN CONFERENCE THIS FALL BEING HELD AND SPONSORED BY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY..STAY TUNED. FOR MORE..

GREEN ROOFS AND LIVING WALLS CLEAN THE AIR BY CONSUMING CARBON DIOXIDE AND EMITTING OXYGEN...SO GO GREEN..MORE TO FOLLOW. GOD BLESS, JJK

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Today i go into the city to visit my friends at Centre Partners..after attending a historic preservation meeting yesterday..Bill and I go back many years, and he has supported our work in a variety of ways..companies like his come out and build and assist us and work with us in a big way to help us with financial assistance.

But Bill and my friendship comes first through our faith, as brothers who believe in the one God we believe in...all of us no matter what faith, and that faith calls us to action...so thank you Bill for being a brother so much...

 

In terms of activities we are bustling with our armory move..and many of you are coming in to support us..thank you...along with that, the road is busy with campers, builders, and also people who are volunteering young and old.

I also spoke to Ron Walker our Hopes representative who will have our retiree dinner on the 9th of July, called HOPES where retirees get together and work to help assist each other in making great things happen, like volunteering here with habitat, from building to the restore, they are the heart and brains of habitat, and workers.. so thank you so much for all you do..here s to a blessed  day..jjk

 

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what a day Fathers day...i await to see my kids who are with their mom now..my heroes...last nite we went to see the Hulk together an educational movie, right...but themes of good and evil..my son tells me they call him the hulk..if you saw how big he is , you can understand that...but both my sons are the hulk to me..ifyou will,my ultimate heroes..never believing i would have kids..i studied to be a priest, so that should give you some indication..my sons have sacrificed much as i have helped others to have homes..almost every Saturday of their young lives i was on a habitat site...sometimes with me, or waiting for me to come back from the rounds of the work we had to do....no finer children could i have, a mom of the teen who went to the prom with my son stated, they all said there is no finer...so thanks to both of my Hulks and to God in heaven..for sending them to me and their mother for having them..

 

my dad died at a young age, on my 16th birthday so this fathers day i remember the amazing things he did..when he died there were priests paupers politicians and prostitutes all lined up around the corner for hours to come and see him....a shock i never realize how my mom survived, but with her brothers help and family support and Gods help she did.

so my heart often goes out to Joel who i just called, a kid with no dad..or to Devante from New Orleans who has no dad and he and his mom were displaced to new york from katrina, or to sam the bam, who comes in on sat, and i feel like his dad, even though i know he has a great dad...

What Father in heaven do we emulate..do we celebrate our Fathers role, in being great dads, and encouraging our youth, how many homes are broken with no dads, or dads that left...i read a column in the paper this morning of a woman who left no credit to her dad, who left at two or stepdad, who left no extra positive memory...

how sad i thought, for two reasons, she did not thank her stepdad, and on fathers day to write such a columnn...well...

then i think of Millard fuller or Bob Barr, or Daniel Casey, surrogate fathers and roles for me in many ways...Millard and I speak many times, about being a dad, about helping those have a home, and have many laughs...Mr. Barr, a heroe, successful builder in the county...and nyc area, would call and say Killaraan...come with me we are going to get some coats for your homeless people you help..(when i helped the homeless),. a great role model, he always said think Big!!! and my own Dad, who bought me a bike, or a go cart, or a minibike all used but awesome, and would take me out of school for what was an unbelievable day, I have world series tickets he said...oh man..unbelievable...He was my MVP and still, is, he always signed his name Dear Ole Dad to the three of us..dieing at 51 he left many with a void of love, that lingers in minds and hearts to this day, thanks Dear Ole Dad...may you be in heaven today..

 

so heres the gig..after a tear runs on the computer for loving memories, how do we become better dads or moms..or become a mentor for our family members, positive role models so necessary for us...please sign up for this vital Mentor program...so needed for us right now, as we grow bigger, your volunteer hour a week and a call every couple of days or a week can change a life forever....You will be the best thing for someone in their life forever, no question if you get involved...call me at 914 403 4821...if you can.

 

so happy Fathers day to all ofyou and remember the most loving Father Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be His Name...your kingdom come for all of us and may we be Kingdom makers of love of community of Gods earth with our families, friends, our communities...HAPPY FATHERS DAY HAPPY MOTHERS DAY, HAPPY FRIENDS DAY HAPPY FAMILY DAY, WE LOVE YOU FROM HABITAT..JJK

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we have a big decision now going on, much to do, we need to be able to raise support as of this time..

but each decision is blessed by God, helping us to raise support with help such as yours...Bruce a good friend from Westhab walks in early before work..i usually get in by 7an..Jim there is furniture you can get from one of the hotels it can help you..it can be a big help..we often work together in telling each other about different opportunities..different things going on...different things that we think can help the people we serve..thanks Bruce.

 

Fathers day week, remember to all the dads, be good, to my sons thank you...yesterday we also did a conference call with his coach his roommate his future place he will go to for another chapter in his life..he is excited...I have many kids, like i said, Devante calls and leaves a message.. Mr. Jim... happy fathers day..he is one of the kids who lost his home in new orleans..who we are trying to get back into his home..hope you have a great day..!!!!!

I am so blessed...again reminder we need a mentor for our families..both habitat and new orleans families, so we can help guide them, so one day we will see devante go to college..excited, or louis, or julie...

heres to the youth of tomorrow and also to our HOPES GROUP..more onHOPES tomorrow.

God bless, jjk

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AS WE HEAD INTO THE SUMMER, GRADUATIONS AND PROMS ABOUND, PLANS BEING COMPLETED FOR VACATIONS AND SUMMER FUN DAYS ARE AHEAD...AND SUMMER BUILD DAYS ARE AHEAD IN A BIG WAY...WE NEED YOUR HELP THIS SUMMER, WHEN YOU HAVE A DAY OFF

 

TODAY I AM HONORED TO SPEAK AT A COUPLE OF THOSE SCHOOLS THAT ARE WINDING DOWN.

THE FRENDCH AMERICAN SCHOOL IN LARCHMONT HELPED TO RAISE SUPPORT FOR OUR WORK. THIS SCHOOL STEPPED UP AND HELPED US DURING OUR FLOODED HOMES ASSISTANCE IN MAMORONECK AND LARCHMONT LAST YEAR. MERCI BEAUCOUP...

 

ALSO I AM SPEAKING TO THORNTON DONOVAN HIGH SCHOOL TODAY AT THEIR GRADUATION CEREMONY. A GREAT HONOR NO QUESTION.  WITH THAT IN MIND I AM BLESSED TO BE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH GREAT SCHOOLS LIKE TD AND THE MANY HIGH SCHOOLS THAT WORK WITH US. THE YOUTH INSPIRE ME TO KNOW THEY WILL GET INVOLVED WITH THE FUTURE, HELPING TO CHANGE THE WORLD. THORNTON DONOVAN IS ONE OF THOSE SCHOOLS THAT DOES THIS IN WAYS TO BE ABLE TO INSPIRE STUDENTS TO HELP THEM CHANGE THE WORLD, AND TO SEE THE WORLD WITH AMAZING TRIPS STUDENTS GO ON, IN COUNTRIES TO BE SEEN AND LEARNED ABOUT.  DOUG FLEMING HATS OFF TO YOU FOR YOUR INSPIRATION.

 

YESTERDAY I WAS FORTUNATE TO SPEND TIME WITH SOME OF OUR SUPPORTERS COMMUNITY PRESERVATION CORPORATION, OR CPC.  THIS GREAT GROUP HELPS IN WAYS TO BE ABLE TO

GET PEOPLE INVOLVED...WITH REDEVELOPING COMMUNITIES...WITH CREATIVE FINANCING. TO SADIE, NANCY AND TOM, THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US...WE LOVE TO SEE YOU IN NEW ROCHELLE.

 

ALSO HATS OFF THE COMMMUNITY PLANNING DEPT OF YONKERS...A TOUR OF MORE LAND OCCURED IN THE RAVINE SECTION OF YONIKERS AND WE BELIEVE THIS WILL BE ANOTHER FUTURE STAR NEIGHBORHOOD FOR OUR PARTNERSHIP IN HELPING TO CREATE AFFORDABLE HOMES THERE..

 

LAST TODAY HATS OFF TO GOLDMAN SACHS AND TO HOPLITE CAPITAL. THEY DO A GREAT JOB IN THE WAYS THAT CHALLENGES OTHER COMPANIES TO COME OUT AND BUILD WITH US, TEAM BUILDING AND WORKING ON HOMES...

 

AND TOMORROW SAT, OUR RESTORES CONTINUE TO BE OPEN, GOLDMAN AND OTHER REGULAR VOLUNTEERS COME AND JOIN US...

SO AS OTHERS PREPARE FOR VACATION, WE ASK YOU TO JOIN US IN BUILDING WITH US, HELPING TO CHANGE COMMUNITIES TOGETHER....

 

THE PSALMIST WROTE..SING PRAISES TO OUR GOD SIUNG PRAISES...

SHIOUT TO THE KING...IN PSALM 47..FOR YOUR WE GIVE THANKS AND PRAISE TODAY..

 

  

 

YESTERDAY A SHOUT OUT TO CPC, COMMUNITY PRESERVATION CORPORATION..

NEW GREEN INITIATIVES

FRENCH AMERICAN SCHOOL

 

 

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WHAT A BLESSED DAY, AMAZING THINGS ARE HAPPENING, GOOD ACTIVITY FROM HERE TO YONKERS TO BEDFORD TO NEW ROCHELLE.

 

TODAY AS A HISTORIC DAY IN NEW ROCHELLE..THE FIRST TOWN GOWN MEETING HELD BY US WITH OUR SO NO NEW RO TEAM..ENCOURAGING THE THREE COLLEGES TO WORK TOGETHER...WITH THE HIGH SCHOOL..ALONG WITH THAT, WE HAD NEW COMERS HUNTER, LACROSSE, COOL BREEZE BILLABONG, ALL A TEAM NEW NAMES FOR GREAT TEENAGE HEROES WHO COME IN AND VOLUNTEER LIKE TARA, TO BUILD SHEDS, TO BUILD HOMES, HELP IN THE RESTORES, AND VOLUNTEER ALL SUMMER, AMAZINGLY INSPIRING ON THIS THE HOTTEST DAY OF THE YEAR..

 

SIMULTANEOUSLY OUR NEW GREEN ENERGY CONSULTANTS STARTED FROM GREEN TREE ENERGY SERVICES, HERE ON TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS, THEY HAVE ALREADY MADE AN IMPACT ON DIFFERENT BUSINESSES AND HOMES...THE NEED TO SAVE ENERGY IS DESPERATELY NOW. AND THEY ARE HERE TO HELP..WHAT A FREE SERVICE..

 

SO IN ALL WE DO AND SAY WE GIVE THANKS TO GOD FOR YOU WHO READ THIS WHO SHARE THIS..TOMORROW ANOTHER BUSY DAY. THREE CORPORATIONS COMING JUST THIS WEEK..

HOMESITE, GOLDMAN MORGAN STANLEY AND ACTUALLY A FOURTH..CREDIT SUISSE..A WORLD TO CHANGE.....JJK

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a great morning. no question, God has blessed us in so many ways, so many..daily, working hard, working to have a great life, working to celebrate every day..

Today we have Homesite insurance on our sites coming out with us for many years.

life is good..and many new Builders camp, college kids and high schools working everywhere..helping to change the world...in a city 40 untis of affordable housing await to be built...when when when.is the question..

lots of smoke and mirrors need to be changed.  no question...

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Saturday morning...Green and Green..green saving supplies from homes, recycling, at our Restore, and Green because you are saving money in your pocket..our big blowout sale at the armory is today, and we need all the help we can get...buy and save money working on your home through beautiful supplies donated by great friends of habitat...

also in yonkers, we have Goldman Sachs working today, thank you so much for your help.

 

An article in today's paper talks again about jobless rates, foreclosures, and the housing market..an opportunity for us to move ahead to help build, to help us save a building and renovate for condos is around the horizon...we need to be able to secure land and get more buildings in our portfolio, no question...will you help...willyou keep your eyes open for everything that we can use to be able to secure land, to secure an empty rehab building, to help us build more...we need it..

with all we say and do we give thanks...pray for us, the economy and getting back to basics in our community...with great gratitude...God bless, jjk

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SO WHAT A COUPLE OF DAYS..LAST NIGHT I WAS HONORED TO SPEAK AT INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS AWARDS CEREMONY AT THE RITZ CARLTON IN MANHATTAN AND TODAY OUR GREAT AMERICAN DREAM LUNCHEON WAS HELD IN THE CROWNE PLAZA..

THE HEADLINE READ THIS MORNING. FORECLOSURES AT ALL TIME HIGH..NO QUESTION..OVERLENDING OF MONEY THAT WASNT REAL, WITH NO LEAWAY HAS BANKRUPTED COMPANIES AND CITIZENS ALIKE, IN A FRENZY THAT LOOKED LIKE PRIOR TO THE CRASH OF THE TWENTIES..OIL HITS TODAY ALL TIME HIGHS AND THE STOCK MARKET HITS 390 P LUS DROP...

WHAT A WORLD..TIME FOR BIO DIESEL, ALTERNATIVE ENERGY AND MORE..

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE, WHERE DO WE SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING...HOW DO WE GET BACK TO BASICS...

I NEED TO THANK PEOPLE LIKE KEN JENKINS OF THE COUNTY LEGISLATORS AND KATHY CONNITS OF STARWOOD, BILL ANDERSON OF GOLDMAN SACHS, AND MARY BONNER OF OUR BOARD..SOTHEBYS, CITIBANK. COMMUNITY MUTUAL, AVALON, MONROE COLLEGE AND MORE FOR COMING ON BOARD WITH US TODAY TO HELP LOOK AT DREAMS COME TRUE, ALONG WITH TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH, ST JOHNS AND PAUL, LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND BYRAM HILLS, PLUS MUCH MUCH MORE..

 

OUR GREEN INITIATIVES WERE ANNOUNCED TODAY..THIS TUESDAY GREEN TREE ENERGY COMES AND WORKS OUT OF OUR HEADQUARTERS, AND HELPS TO START TO CONSULT WITH BUSINESSES AND HOMES IN OUR NEWLY CREATED NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, SO NO NEW RO....

 

THE TIME FOR US TO CHANGE THINGS IS NOW NO QUESTION....!!!!!!

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no matter what the trial we can persevere...that becomes our daily challenge in good times and bad...for us at habitat. we have so much good happening, we are blessed to be able to celebrate lives of families of volunteers of donors, even when some groups try to stop us..so our work continues blessed..our Restores continue even thought the city wants to kick us out of the armory...and the county wants us to recycle...

all of this means we have to work harder, we have to continue, we have to forge ahead  with Gods help...

 

GO GREEN!  Habitat continues its efforts and at our headquarters every Tuesday we wil have two green energy consultants that will work out of our headquarters!  from GREEN TREE ENERGY...they will help small businesses and homeowners with free energy audits..saving dollars..to be able to offer this service to our homesowners and to the wider new rochelle public as a service is part of our Green mission to help save homeowners and citizens money on their energy bills...exciting times....for us as part of ourGreen Inititatves..

Last remember to say a prayer for the American Dream..because even as people get into homes, there is much more we all need to learn to save energy balance bills, be part of a real community...all of it is what we hope our mission will be part of in helping to realize dreams come true..so June 6th we celebrate this for all..

 

ps hats off to my Lincoln high school habitat club members whom i addressed yesterday.,.they had an end of the year party celebrating our work together and many will volunteer with us during the summer...the Excitement is Still Building!

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historic buildings, we knock them down, we throw them away, creating more landfill and we dont move ahead with any development that includes affordable homes..no question..what a world we are creating..

we need to hold accountable now Smart development..smart use of buildings and saving our history, no question...in the newspaper today another article to letter to the editor, about stopping the historic post office building from being knocked down..so important...lets get Smart Westchester, lets get Historic and preserve our buildings, not stopping good development but making it Smart...time for us to change the obscenity of knocking down buildings of a great city of history..to that end we are looking to preserve a building on Main street to make affordable condos on them. we just finished two rehabs on Lincoln that sat there for six years empty and now they look beautiful...thanks to all of our volunteers, the city of new rochelle, HUD and others, helping...New Rochelle High School too...lets get Smart New Rochelle....

 

Also hats off to my Lincoln High School club who celebrates their end of the year celebration today at hteir school for all their hard work.. also the the Pleham Middle School who raised in their fourth grade 150 dolalrs for us today...thank you so much!  you are all my heroes...lets kee our work going folks..in a year of Change as the operative word, lets make it happen for us to change our communities to Sustainable and to realize affordable housing in communities is definitely sustainable, no question...and needed, so we save gas, rebuild real communities, live with a sense of history and celebrate our world in a greener way..with gratitude, jjk

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a great Saturday..so blessed...seventy volunteers working on a big Brush with Kndness project at Slobaum municipal residences, places where so many great people live, and a paint lift in the hands of many, the church of Latter Day Saints, made all feel great...clean, new colors, and hope and pride...the spirit and Spirit of Faith and Action is unbelievable no question...

along with Diversified Advisors our regular corporate volunteers, our host every year for our corporate kickoff, it was another blessed day, and last with customers and volunteers at our Restores, so many came and went...with help. hope and purchases knowing that they bought something that is a treasure, recycled and will help build new homes for people..with gratitude to all involved, and to God, we have so much to be thankful for, most definitely....

 

last our So No New Ro team, part of our community development and hope of building workforce condos on Main Street here in new rochelle, has us working to finish some workforce homes, buying the building on Main street..please call me if you can help more with this....at 403 4821..and also with our implentation of pride in community with our Historic Post Cards, we will be part of making history, while preserving it and helping to realize that communities, not only have large developments, but great history in small developments, in small business and in saving history in so many ways......May God bless you in all you do...jjk

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