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New Years Eve tonite..thousands and millions gather in the NY area...Times Square partyers, White PLains New Rochelle..all reveling, all working together, all should be grateful fora simple decent home...others will return to homes with no heat tonite,leaking roofs, etc...

 

We  need you to help us this year..to help assist us in our work, to help us in Westchester to help us rebuild in ways never seen before..creating tax payers, rebuilding communities, green homes, people helping one another and more.. Join us in 2010! we need you..and your end of the year donation assists us in that effort..

God bless,

jjk

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A dialogue withPeekskill, withMt Vernon, with our Zero Energy Friends helping a new home in Yonkers…all of our work is vital to our success in 2010..and your help..your prayers, your support.

 

Excitingly we have our workshop on Green Construction at the YMCA in Yonkers..for youth learning construction skills… we also have our training program being set up soon with the Dept of Labor.

 

Also we have many exciting things set for 2010..may God bless you this week in all you do…from our famlies to yours..jim

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Cell: 914-403-4821

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

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Merry Christmas finally here...yesterday i walked in the city of Manhattan, where i used to help the homeless....I love Manhattan...no question...there you could see that things have gotten better..it is a tough time, but the family shelters are filled...

tough to see...pray for those in shelters this day...

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world….Gandhi…..Natasha my former high school leader fromLincoln High school,  now at Pace U…writes, a note from Gandhi on the end of her request to come in..

 

A great quote, a great person..no question..can I come between now and Jan 19^th she writes to help…while I am on vacation..for semester break..Many students help to come and help us during this time, join us! During this time going on, we hope to be able finish homes, start new ones, and assist

We also have a need for us to be able to increase our weatherization efforts…

 

God bless you… to all our future leaders, who will change the world!

 

Yesterday as I went to Times Sq Church and prayed for a great year, for all of us.. I prayed for what we are doing across the county the country…

I also remember how we walked and took down the Regis and Kelly House on the West End, framed up a house in the Union Square, and also we built New Orleans Homes in Rockefeller Center…what an amazing thing to be one of the only groups to ever build homes or take them down, in Manhattan.

 

Today we look to help have a blessed end of the year, set some goals, work together and make it happen. Join us!

 

Yesterday

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Cell: 914-403-4821

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

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During the time of Christmas everyone loves to see Santa..we love to have Santa at the Restore...last nite, we had many people come by to say hi and kids give their wish list..today we will have Santa again there and also our downtown neighborhood association So No New Ro meets for a holiday luncheon at noon..this year more than ever as a community neighborhood support agent..we have many who apprecate our efforts...across the country neighborhood revitlization effots by habitat are moving ahead..we have tranformed communities, tranformed lives..with your help we will continue to do it...on Main Streets with condos, and cheer and restores, in cities and towns like Yonkers and Pound Ridge and Bedford and Peekskill and in your town.. may God bless you, and may Santa come to your neighborhood, may it be safe, secure and a real community in the spirit of Christmas...God bless you all

 

James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of Westchester
Office: 914-636-8335 x 101
Fax: 914-636-8592
www.habitatwc.org

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Sunday before Christmas the Restore is open on Main street. Dec 20^th..Santa is coming..and the kdis are too.

 The snow fell, but not before we got our floors and walls up in Somers on the house, not before we got insulation in the homes on Park Place Mamoroneck and in New Rochelle, Howard avenue…not before we could celebrate building warm homes, and having our work celebrated in three local papers this week..

 

Christmas time is a celebration..i must thank our Lord Jesus, no matter what faith for calling us to action..i am blessed to work with my Jewish and Muslim brothers and sisters..but am so grateful for the faith and action we are all called to under this umbrella of this ministry…

This year, is our best year to come, you have made it this way..please make a donation on line today, so we move strong into the future..God bless

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Cell: 914-403-4821

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

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A visitor..i call him while delivering coats for the homeless. Walt how areyou…im in new york..no way I say…Rev. Walt Tennyson of Rhodes College campus ministry, formerly of Bronxville Reformed Church was able to stop by this morning Christmas Monday to join me for coffee and breakfast…we go to the soup kitchen, Habitat Memphis has a great habitat too. The college contributes money to a house..i want our colleges to do this..

Walt and I led a group to Belfast of Protestants and Catholics to build in Belfast..He also led many on our sites…when we went, protestants and Catholics weren’t supposed to interact with each other, we built in Glen Cairn and Iris Close there..now he is in the land of Elvis, Memphis…walking in Memphis, helping others, loving life.. a great friend.. God bless Walt, safe travels.. he will be back with students and I will visti, and we will lead others again… God bless, to all who have helped us.

 

Now we plan on getting our work done across the county..across every town and city, what a great blessed time it is for Habitat!  We are planning for our work during our Martin Luther King week buildathon and gospel fest..the Holy Spirit is working for sure..

May you have a blessed Christmas week…!!!!!

Jim Killoran

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Cell: 914-403-4821

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

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A great Friday..i go to Peekskill today to meet with the city and the housing authority two different meetings…I love Peekskill, a  historic city, great music, jazz, Bean runner café.. I met Harry Connick trying some jazz out there at a great little jazz place..also Abraham Lincoln stopped there. We also have Don Bennett a hero, Alyson Risoli another high school teacher hero and many many great people helping us, including the Dorseys who now have a beautiful home, we rehabbed six homes there as well..as well as building a new one..stay tuned..

 

May God bless Peekskill, Portchetesr Bronxville, Pelham, and all the great towns and cities of this county.. we ask you to pray during this Christmas Hanukkah week for our vital mission for our success in changing communities in 2010 and for your support and building help!

 

Ps tomorrow our first annual Christmas Hanuakkah Contractors Day…a blessing, thanks Jim Hanley, Mark Jennings Mary Lou Greco, Anne Avenius and all…

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Cell: 914-403-4821

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

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what a time in history we live in...Taking care of the working class is the first step to real stimulus states a writer from Peekskill....in the Journal News...this week i go to Peekskilll to look at four homes...today i go to Ossining and address the Rotary there...then off to Tarrytown to the Carpet One TF Andrew Christmas party..the Fahys are major sponsors of all we do... then I go back to Catherine Borgias cable show...and we seek to build north county again..

 

2010 is the year of the Service Club and officially our campaign kicking off BUILDING ON FAITH INTO THE FUTURE...we are building on faith into the future now...building now..continuing to build with the mustard seed of faith that has grown from one home to that of 250 projects completed across the county..wtih thousands helped, thousands volunteered, saving tax dollars, stabilizing neighborhoods, and creating tax payers..

 

Taking care of the working class..taking care of each other, building community again from the bottom up..does it get any better..this is what God calls us all to share in during this time of Hanukkah and Christmas God Bless you!  Donate now! we need your support, prayers hands and donations!~

 

 

James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of Westchester
Office: 914-636-8335 x 101
Fax: 914-636-8592
www.habitatwc.org

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a cold blessed day..

busy all over the county.

groups from Horace Mann and Walter Panas, to Holy Child Somers inviiduals, to Bedford Presbyterian Church, ..we are building on this coLD Saturday..everywhere...to get people homes..to get a roof on, to put a second floor, to put insulation in!!!!!! No fair weather builders here, not at all, and our Restores are open..every day is Christmas Hanukkah to Habitat..everyday is a blessing everyday we pray for more oil for the candles..and it comes....God bless you all..make a donation today ..thats how we keep the oil in the "candles" of habitats love and light going daily.....

 

James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of Westchester
Office: 914-636-8335 x 101
Fax: 914-636-8592
www.habitatwc.org

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HANUKKAH SUNDAY.. A DAY WHERE WE CELEBRATE THE LIGHT OF THE OIL LASTING..

SOMEHOW GOD ALWAYS THE OIL TO LAST AND MULITPLY IF WE COUNT ON HIM...THE LORD OF ISAIAH OF ABRAHAM OF JOHN AND JAMES..ALWAYS PROVIDES..IF NOT THE SPARROWS THAT I TAKE CARE OF , HOW MUCH MORE WILL I TAKE CARE OF MY CHILDREN..STATES THE SCRIPTURE..

 

HANNUAKKAH, CHRISTMAS, HOLIDAYS!  ALL IMPORTANT VITAL FOR OUR SUCCESS IN LIFE IN UNDERSTANDING THE TRUE SPIRIT...LAST NITE I RAN INTO A DEACON OF A CHURCH..JIM I WAS JUST THINKING OF YOU..DID YOU GET THE COATS DONATED, I HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE IN NEED AT THE FOOD PANTRY...OF COURSE I REPLY

 

ENRICO FERME CALLS, CAN YOU GET TOYS JIM FOR OUR KIDS...OF COURSE WE CAN...PEOPLE THAT DAY DONATE THEIR TOYS..

 

I ASK..JIM HANLEY, MARK JENNINGS, MR LARKIN, CAN YOU DONATE SHEETROCK FOR OUR CONTRACTORS BUILD...DONE...FOR NEXT DEC 19TH...

 

ALL OF IT IS SO IMPORTANT VITAL TO LIFES SUCCESS..WE ARE HERE FOR BUT A SHORT TIME..

REMEMBER THE TRUE SPIRIT OF HANNUKKAH AND CHRISTMAS..HELP ONE ANOTHER, SHARE AND GIVE......GOD BLESS YOU..

 

James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of Westchester
Office: 914-636-8335 x 101
Fax: 914-636-8592
www.habitatwc.org

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FIRST ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CONTRACTORS DAY COMING AND HANNUKKAH TOO.

WE WELCOME OUR CONTRACTORS TO HELP US THIS SAT ON SITE IN OUR WORK ALL OVER THE COUNTY..

 

We have plenty to do, plenty to work on, no question..and our first Annual Christmas Contractors day on site...where we welcome all our guests to join us..no question ..we welcome them to our sites..finsihing sheetrock,working on sites, building away,helping finish two flood homes and more...stay tuned the excitement is building!

 

James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of Westchester
Office: 914-636-8335 x 101
Fax: 914-636-8592
www.habitatwc.org

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a great Tuesday..

last nite i want to give a shout out by the way to a school i visited in our Yonkers neighborhood..the Charter School of Excellence...on Warburton Avenue..

What a great opportunity to see kids shine...our kids shine in the homes..these kids shine in school..both are vitally important..thanks for the invite..stay tuned..

 

As i drove by teh homes on Willow then the hollows in our two neighborhood associations..

i was able to say hi to Grace and Anthony, then was able to say hi to Andre..Andre was outside proudly on his porch the house decorated with Christmas decorations...holiday homes lighting up the whole street..

along with that he was telling me proudly...Yachary his daughter wants to go to U Albany. she did great in school...Junior his son, wants to play baseball and is excelling in All Hallows..what a great life to see this...

we have transformed the street...we helped the neigbhors, have our office there, have great hope in all we do..we are so blessed..

 

Then when i went to the Hollows, lights were shed over four of our nine homes...a reindeer on Melissas home..the triplets home was lit with great holiday fun and lights...God has guided all our homes with the angels watching over...

 

Now to our next neighborhood..i went toi look at the site where our Zero Energy home is going to be...we have had GREEN HOMES..since 1997 utilizing SIP panels, utllizing energy star labels, utilizing reengineered wood, utlizing solar panels and more...before it was in vogue, we have weatherized, help and assisted in all we have done to save utilities and transform neighborhoods..

hats off to Sebeda Cruz of NYPA who came to visit yesterday and also thank you to Janine Fazzina who is our leader with Martin Ball from Citibank..stay tuned... God bless you all, Christmas and Hannukah is here...and Habitat families are blessed because of you...donate now...we need it for our next neigbhborhoods...

 

 

James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of Westchester
Office: 914-636-8335 x 101
Fax: 914-636-8592
www.habitatwc.org

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a great holiday party at New Rochelle High school..many many families helping many working, many loving their homes..Eastchester High New Rochelle High and Blessed Sacrament kids all helping from the high school...gifts from Target school, given..music, Mr Rubins did a great job..teh superintendant of schools Rich Organaschak came..a blessed nite...

then coats delivered to the homeless..outside cold. on Park Avenue in Manhattant believe it or not, in the lap of luxury, Antonio, Pat, T, Frank, Perry and more..all receiving warm coats new from one of our habitat sponsors...

 

God blesses us all to have a home, a roof, heat, food, we all have peace, with Habitats mission, our homes, our health.... thank you for all who helped

 

James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of Westchester
Office: 914-636-8335 x 101
Fax: 914-636-8592
www.habitatwc.org

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A county made for the future...how do we design it..or do we do it for a few..how do we design for Seniors for firefighters, for the average worker..exciting times in Westchester, we need to band together, help one another and realize that in the crisis there is great OPPORTUNITY...Join us as we become the vehicle of opportunity for change, for real home ownership, for people not being burdened but lifted..

 

jjk

 

James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of Westchester
Office: 914-636-8335 x 101
Fax: 914-636-8592
www.habitatwc.org

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Sunday!  Santa stands in front of our restore..kids come by...most people love Santa..representing love, being good, helping, having fun..celebrating..this week we have our Holiday Christmas Party at New Rochelle High School..we also had bronxville High School working on our sites today in Yonkers, always there, Ms Lorber does great..

 

with all in mind we wish you the joy of Christmas..Hannukkah and Kwanza..we believe in Christmas celebrating our God! so good one God that loves us all, and calls us to help..

 

from companies to congregations, all can be part of the Habitat Holiday Holy Family...just the beginning...

 

James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of Westchester
Office: 914-636-8335 x 101
Fax: 914-636-8592
www.habitatwc.org

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We appreciate all you can do to help us…what a great morning it will be…

 

Today we have work going on that includes M and T Bank volunteering, as well as the Junior League stopping at the site..

 

This important endeavor includes people working hard, helping loving and being with others, to see them have a home..

 

This weekend is packed with people with volunteers stay tuned.

 

This morning I go to a League of Woman Voters meeting to hear Judy Meyers, talk about the affordable housing lawsuit…lets see what she says, stay tuned..jjk

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Cell: 914-403-4821

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

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Tuesday, meeting with Greg Arcaro in Yonkers, a great person…who has helped in Yonkers for years as planning commissioner and also has gotten his volunteers from Holy Cross College out with us…no question..thanks Greg, he joins us in our local project committee as well..Yonkers LPC conference call is Thursday….looking for a city of change and hope..and building..we love Yonkers…going Green, getting larger, making it all worth our while..for sure..  This Friday I am honored to be with the Mayor of Yonkers being honored by another organization…

 

Today volunteers are in Yonkers, in ossining and in New Ro…we are working ahead to make our county better for home owners and for our neighbors..

Yesterday we had a great Brush with Kindness discussion, with RonWalker and Mary Bonner, board members, Jason, Sarah of Habitat International..discussing how powerful a program this is for us…stay tuned…  Thank you so much..at a program called Pregnancy Care Center..

We welcome this week M and T Bank working on our Sites, Credit Suisse stepping up again doing a great job for us and your company can sign up now…stay tuned, we have more people ready to join us..in ways that are amazing for us…to help move ahead….

 

My radio show on WVOX is tomorrow from 9-10am..stay tuned for great positive blessed discussion….at 1460am..

 

God is blessing our work so much. Thanks to you as well!

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Cell: 914-403-4821

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

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A blessed thanksgiving..no queston!  Now today we have so many helping for sure, on our sites..helping working seeing what we can do to help our communities…today our volunteers, take over Main street, take over decorating our headquarters, take over finishing the work on 185 Pelham Road ..we are so blessed for sure.. so blessed in helping out! God is so good to us…in all we do!  Today HolyTrinity Orthodox Church comes in to help us work…also we have Christ Church work tomorrow …and volunteers from New Ro to Mamoroneck to Somers..God is blessing all we do…

Join us..support us…God bless

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Cell: 914-403-4821

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

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ON page 3a of Journal news the article reads...Volunteers help to fix homes for the holidays!  this is our most important time yet, no question...and we have needs all over the county to say the least...growing needs...i alsohave land being offered to us now..so i will be creating a land fund, so we can make longterm stake holders herei n Westchester.....the family staets, Habitat volunteers keep giving and giving..thank you volunteers thank you donors thank you helpers...from here..we can rebuild this county with your help!

God bless, jjk

 

James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of Westchester
Office: 914-636-8335 x 101
Fax: 914-636-8592
www.habitatwc.org

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a great day, volunteers helping with a brush withkindness in Somers for a mom who helped kids with clef lips..another great day of framing first floor....another great day of helping on Mamoroneck house...Somers Lions volunteering, Christ church volunteering...St Lukes volunteering and more...all helping.all working all making it a better county for peolpe to live in...thank you John DiVivo, for all your help.. thank you for your great leadership in the Somers house...also thank you Anne Avenius for Mamoroneck...God bless you...

 

 

 

 

James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of Westchester
Office: 914-636-8335 x 101
Fax: 914-636-8592
www.habitatwc.org

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what a weekend..Thanksgiving weekend found so many people helping so many families..Helping one another is the key to all we do...thekey to our lives, the key to our work! 

We are involved with working hard on homes in New Rochelle, in Yonkers, in Mt Vernon, in Somers, in Mt Kisco..today i am honored tohave Jim Palmer the village manager of Mt Kisco coming to visit with me at my office about helping seniors and possible new homes..

also Mt Vernon is off and running with us, helping us in a big way, looking to help us in all we do, assisting us in finidng land, rehabbing homes...it is a tough time, govt funds see school budgets being cut, seeing city budgets being cut, but that is where sweat equity and helping comes in again..real community building...a crisis is the opportunity to get out and help again with the spirit of volunteerism....

 

transition...yesterday i took my bike ride in New Rochelle and ended another ride in Grand centrail after getting off in Harlem...

first in New Ro, I rode past five island, hudson park, and past the home on pelham we rehabbed and the post office benches..and the Bracy apartments...all painted by Brush with Kindness volunteers..

 

then i took my bike later on the train got off in Harlem and rode down park avenue...kids were playing soccer after i left 125th and then 124th where i used to volunteer years ago where empty buildings stood and drug dealers tried to take down our building we were rehabbing for homeless...with Fr David Kirk and Emmaus House...

 

Then i went past many municipal housing authoritiies...thousands of people live in these...i always wish they were condos instead of managed apartments for families there...

 

along with that, i rode down Park avenue where the rich and famous live.. but also you see the homeless at nite outside one of the churches...

 

i think..where do people live..what a world we live in, wht a diverse world..what a diverse opportunity for habitat to help improve it, for sure...God bless

ps dont forget dec 10th is our holiday party at New Ro high school...

 

James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of Westchester
Office: 914-636-8335 x 101
Fax: 914-636-8592
www.habitatwc.org

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a nice day before thanksgiving....Nan calls from our Mamoroneck flood area..Jim come pick up food, from our day care center we collected for families...slvia calls, jim help this person from Africa...can you help.. so many good people have blessed me to help me help others...the Mccarthy family..Jim send in that grant request..we want to help...the tides of change, the winds of change for the better are here..even if things seem uncertain goodness is the Constant..helping is the vehicle for the end goal of better community...God calls us to this...my friend comes to me yesterday, Jim you are Muslim...a mom and teen the day before, are you sure you are not Jewish..as we spoke about Hebrew theology...God bless us all....for sure...

we are blessed to be together..blessed to pray and work together, to help one another..of what a great country we are in to be able to give THANKS!  WE THANK GOD FOR YOU WHO READ THIS WITH A PRAYER TODAY...!

 

 

James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of Westchester
Office: 914-636-8335 x 101
Fax: 914-636-8592
www.habitatwc.org

FW: thanksgiiving week Tuesday

An exciting time...people getting ready to travel, help others, work together, see what we can do to assist others volunteer....we are bar none one of the most wanted volunteer opportunities amongst so many.

This week we have many that want to come out and help us...many who want to come out and join us in building a home for the Holidays....helping us to work on homes in Mamrooneck, in Yonkers, in New Rochelle, in Somes, helps us to continue strong...to continue through the weather that people are always so glad to have a roof over their head with...

 

Today we have a GREEN CONSTRUCTION TRAINING AT THE YMCA.. IN YONKERS, KICKOFF OFF OUR TRAINING, AND HELPING TO BEGIN TO TRAIN OTHERS IN A WAY THEY CAN LEARN TO BUILD. LEARN A TRADE, AND HELP BUILD GREEN!  WE ALSO HAVE A TRAINING FOR OUR OWN STAFF. ON BUILD IT GREEN!

 

HELP TO THINK OF THE FUTURE..SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT, SAVE ENERGY, SAVE HOMES..

LEARN WITH US, AND VOLUNTEER WITH US...MAY GOD BLESS YOU THIS DAY IN ALL YOU DO!

MAY YOU BE LIKE ISAIAH ... A REPAIRER OF THE BREACH! JJK

 

James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of Westchester
Office: 914-636-8335 x 101
Fax: 914-636-8592
www.habitatwc.org

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GREEN BLOG!

 

You can reduce your load on the earth's limited resources by taking simple conservation steps taht actually save you money.  Cutting back on energy usage at home even by a smallamount can reap large benefits

 

Ouractivities of daily living generate tremendous amounts of trash-400 billions bvpounds a year.. recyling even a little can reduce that amount dramatically.

syaing no to disposables and using durable alternatives, such as ceramic coffee mugs, reduces trash, costs and chemical exposure at the same time.

 

Chemicals in household products can harmful effects on your health and environment...also household furnishings, including mattresses, carpets, and furntirue made from particle board....

look to keep your environment as healthy as possible...! Thank Green jjk

 

 

 

 

James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of Westchester
Office: 914-636-8335 x 101
Fax: 914-636-8592
www.habitatwc.org

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Does it get any better than this..JFK high school Students volunteering..on site in Somers..West Point cadets at a rehab in New Rochelle..Ursuline and St Johns and Paul on Mamoroneck flood house..and Volunteers in Yonkers..alll blessed to help..Its early Sunday morning..wyatt and I meet at 715 to go to Home Depot so Iona students can come and help work on the home with us to get the family insulated and sheetrocked....in New Rochelle.. a blessing!  Also we meet with another family today over their getting a home in White Plains...

 

An article in Yorktown where Habitat has built..states that there is no stick on the need...the stick to help us build homes all over the county is the desire by Habitat that everyone have a simple decent home to live in at nite ...that there is no substandard housing...that kids arent being shot at, while others have no need...and to this end our sticks are our hammers, our motivation is our love of the one God we all believe in, Muslim, Christian, Jew, whoever wants to join faith or no faith..and the ability to know we can do this...with your help...

a prayer for you today, and for us..please during this Holiday season send your support. God bless, jjk

 

James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of Westchester
Office: 914-636-8335 x 101
Fax: 914-636-8592
www.habitatwc.org

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Building more than a house..one habitat has written..

we build neighborhoods..for sure, no question!  We build all the time, across the county, across  the country across the world....with that in mind, we have so much going on, so much that we are blessed to have 120 volunteers this weekend..building helping, working..in four towns and cities this weekend and more..

 

all over the county we help and it is an amazing way that we work together from congregations to companies....

 

NOW IS THE TIME.. a New Orleans song goes...NOW IS THE TIME TO HELP HABITAT...God bless you!

 

James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of Westchester
Office: 914-636-8335 x 101
Fax: 914-636-8592
www.habitatwc.org

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GO GREEN!

 

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester PROUDLY ANNOUNCES IT GREEN CONSTRUCTION TRAINING..This starts at the YMCA this week teaching about going Green,….learning how to work…on sites. What products are healthy and how to make it all work so our homes are healthy, families are healthier and jobs in the green economy are created thru Habitat for Humanity of Westchester.

 

Some products that get recommended are 

ECO SPEC WB INTERIOR LATEX FLAT! ZERO VOC, QUICK DRYING…MINIMAL ODOR..1

ZERO voc/’s mean no volatile organic compounds..this is important for us to live healthy in rooms we paint…

 

A recent easy read about lifestyle isLIVING GREEN by Greg Horn…this book with forward by Jordan Rubin, talks about SUSTAINABLE PERSONAL CARE FOR FACE, TEETH AND HAIR, TO SUSSTAINABLE HEALTH FROM THE INSIDE, AND FROM THE OUTSIDE…

So much you can read it in a day, and find that Green Habits, often are practical ones, that can help us all….

 

A SHOUT OUT TO NORTHERN WESTCHESTER JUNIOR LEAGUE…for meeting today over sponsoring a site, building and helping with our Yorktown to Yonkers Bikeathon in the spring..stay tuned.. God bless you all….

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Cell: 914-403-4821

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

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CDBG MONIES..what are they...many towns and cities took many dollars...

  community development block grants...the origin...comes as a result of the war on poverty....in the Johnson administration....some people forgot this, in work that is being done..across the county..this monies represented help to towns that need to do affordable housing in light of the monies that was given...

 

we work on 90 per cent private donations...we work on support from people like you, congregations, companies, houseraising and more.....

 

we are building all over the county, all over the towns and cities, join us...in this endeavor..

 

James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of Westchester
Office: 914-636-8335 x 101
Fax: 914-636-8592
www.habitatwc.org

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SING O HEAVENS; AND BE JOYFUL, O EARTH; AND BREAK FORTH INTO SINGING, O MOUNTAS FOR THE LORD HATH COMFORTED HIS PEOPLE, AND WILL HAVE MERCY UPON HIS AFFLICED  ISAIAH 49:13...

 

OH GOD HOW GOOD YOU ARE!

 

Sing oh Heavens, sing oh people..like Isaiah we should be singing with gratitude!  amazing things happening all over the world, for sure..amazing..peaceful, prayerful, joyful, building communities, loving, sharing, caring...

Oh God in heaven thank you!

Jewish and Christian and Muslim and Hindi...people working together, left and right and middle and up and down parties, caring with one another...building...

 

this is so important in our work in habitat..hearts have been changed homes have been built and hope is alive!!!!! THANK YOU OH GOD...FOR YOUR LOVE, LIFE AND HABITAT

 

 

 

James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of Westchester
Office: 914-636-8335 x 101
Fax: 914-636-8592
www.habitatwc.org

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a great day Emory University alumni...    is out in Mamoroneck...Community church in Pelham and much more...God is blessing so much..as we move ahead..now we see land growing everywhere..land helping to show, and with your support, we will build homes..!

 

James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of Westchester
Office: 914-636-8335 x 101
Fax: 914-636-8592
www.habitatwc.org

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a great day today, Blessed the Lord in all we have and praise His Holy Name..Solomon Schecter School and JFK schools were on site, both religious schools, Jewish and Catholic, both working on sites both recognizing we are a faith in action program, no question...this important recogntion sometimes takes years for someone to recognize, takes a lifetime, takes a moment if you want...in my own tradition i was taught to kill people on the sports fields as a good Catholic...go go go!  instead it should have been killing poverty...sports is great but think about the money that goes into every game, the weekends that are sat infront of televisions, the art and music and service and helping that people could be involved in, to say the least....do you think there is a big screen in heaven..i do, only showing videos of what i see every weekend, people of all faiths in action changing the world ...God bless you..j

 

James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of Westchester
Office: 914-636-8335 x 101
Fax: 914-636-8592
www.habitatwc.org

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Imagine if there was only one type of mortgage a habitat interest free mortgage..just really think abuot this today, everyone would be a tax payer, you wouldnt need tax payer incentives in 8000 credits, but you could make the mortgages 20,30 40 years..savings would occur, and no refinancing could happen that were to predatory lendors...a dream..who knows....

 

we are the number one home builder this year, and will continue to grow.

 

Kudoes to Jim Palmer and Mt kisco..i stopped by a town yesterday in village hall, a new library second floor, pride, caring, thinking about workers...congrads..we are giving a talk on greening the community, along with rehabbing homes, seniors homes, and helping to build new ones, ... a new lpc is growing there, next thursday at 3pm.

 

Credit Suisse comes again under the leadership of Hank Hyatt..what a great gift to see them out again, working with us, ...they gave us consistent strenght and support throughout the year.

 

tonite our Board meets, a dedicated group to helping us move ahead, help and build!  I am blessed to have so many around me...God bless, jjk

 

James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of Westchester
Office: 914-636-8335 x 101
Fax: 914-636-8592
www.habitatwc.org

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If one was going to be able to look at a variety of things, one would see in between the lines many homes that look to have their families blessed, their houses warm as the colder air comes in ....

For us we work today on this Sat.. in

 

Ossining, helping to insulate a seniors home that needs to be insulated, she does not have heat, she many not eat, but with our help, she gets there..

 

New Rochelle a 92 year old, daughter and son, see their house wrapped and improved as we work on thier home..seeing it come into gear

 

Mt Vernon we begin to get the Veterans home ready for fixing his roof, for helping to see him be warm for the winer, on a fixed income, he had only enough to pay his taxes, the tornado hit his home with a tree..

 

Yonkers, we have finishing of four homes, then we work to get all our families together at 11am to have atalk on saving energy, getting ready for the winter..

 

noon time, a structural engineer gets to our new home, we hope to review work that has been done on the buidling.

 

three restores run on main in new ro and

 

Somers, a group is building block there, getting ready to make it happen..so we can have our Thanksgiving framing party...

 

and on we go...wont you join us in this exciting mission! God bless you.

 

we need to see your donations today to keep it all going!  God bless,

 

James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of Westchester
Office: 914-636-8335 x 101
Fax: 914-636-8592
www.habitatwc.org

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A great day, speaking in Pound Ridge at 10am, then back for the Walk for Homes now.....

an elderly person speaks, i am staying in my home now,..Habitat helped me have heat for the winter...yesterday volunteers in Ossining..lpc worked on Campwoods home, and helped her be warm for the winter...

Yesterday Iona Prep kids worked on a seniors home, that needed help, she will have a better winter because of our work in New Rochelle rehabbing, and Tuesday we begin a rehab on a Veterans house in

Mt Vernon..Simultaneously, we have a great day of work in Somers and in Yonkers..does it get any better than this..

 

Thanks to Polytech University and their students and Mr Penella and also to Blind BrookSchool who came out and worked, along with Iona Prep and Ossining High.

 

God bless you all, PLEDGE ME TODAY AS I WALK FOR HOMES..JOIN US 1PM IN LARCHMONT

 

 

James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of Westchester
Office: 914-636-8335 x 101
Fax: 914-636-8592
www.habitatwc.org

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A GREAT BLESSED WALK WE HAD YESTERDAY...MORE THAN 250 WALKERS AND MORE THAN 12,000 RAISED...

A SIMPLE DECENT HOME FOR ALL!

Repairers of the Breach! in Isaish, ch 59..we are Repairers of the Breach, of  helping seniors, veternas, peopl who need simple decent homes for sure.. we are repairers of the breach to help build in towns that have excluded..we are repairers of the breach, like i spoke in Pound Ridge at hte Community Church there, thanks to Rev. Lori Miller there, for sharing and all the great people there.

 

Thanks to all the high schoolers there, to all who came, to the Junior Leaguers and to St Augustines church.

 

This weekend two by fours are being sold at the Holy Family Church this weekend to help out...on Clove Road ,..stay tuned...repairers of the Breach..

 

James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of Westchester
Office: 914-636-8335 x 101
Fax: 914-636-8592
www.habitatwc.org