Monday, November 30, 2009

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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

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

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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

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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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

Monday, November 23, 2009

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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

Friday, November 20, 2009

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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

 

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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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

Monday, November 16, 2009

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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

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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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

Monday, November 09, 2009

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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

Friday, November 06, 2009

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Today WOULD YOU PRAY FOR OUR WORK..PRAY FOR SUPPORT.. PRAY FOR A NEW DAY IN HELING OTHERS.

WE ARE SO BLESSED, IN HELPING SO STRONG IN ALL WE DO, WITH VOLUNTEERS LIKE YOU.

\THE CITY OF MT VERNON PRAYSS OF NOV 14TH, A FLYER READSD, DESIGNATE A MOMENT TO PRAY FOR OUR CITY WEEKLY OR EVEN DAILY...WHAT A GREAT THING TO HAVE A CALL FOR.. THEN HELP US THERE,  WE ARE SO EXCITED TO SEE WHAT CAN HAPPEN AFTER PRAYER, MIRCALES, HOMES AND COMMUNITIES TRANSFORMED...JOIN US IN PRAYER FOR HABITAT OF WESTCHESTER AS WELL ..GOD LOVE YOU ALL, NO MATTER WHAT FAITH OR NO FAITH, JJK

 

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

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

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Let the Heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice and let people say among the nations, The Lord reigns...

1 Chronicles 6:31...

 

a blessed day for all of us..if you have a roof you are better off than many here in the county...be grateful..and help us do something about it!  God bless, 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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Today i am honored to speak in Mt Vernon Rotary, after speaking at the Mobile PLus company there about the Mt Vernon home we will rehab, and two others...we are honored to work in Mt Vernon, and will be working to build new homes, save homes and help others.

We will work Veterans Day there, to be able to help a WW Veteran help have his home rehabbed..

 

Along with that the Excitement is Walking...and Building at our Walk for Homes this Sunday..

 

On the phone now with Somers construction team.. a great team..Dave Sammel, JohnDiVito..and all..

we are blessed to see decking and framing start soon...thank you to this great Somers team that is up there..

 

God bless you all, 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

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

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a great day...we have much to do..we have a rehab in the house in New Rochelle, a Veterans Day project for a Vet on Veterans Day, work all over the county..and our GreenConstruction Training Course being set up to kickoff on Nov 17th...what a blessed day! Election Day, get out and vote, take nothing for granted...adn then Vote withyour hearts and your hoofs at our biggest ever Walk for Homes Now Nov 8th at 1pm .!!!!!

 

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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O Lord our God, as for all this abundance that we have provided for building you a temple for your Holy Name, it comes from your hand, and all of it belongs to you….1 Chronicles 29:16

 

Always be grateful for your home..

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Cell: 914-403-4821

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

Monday, November 02, 2009

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its Christmas time in the city..Norman Rockwell Christmas and holidays are being prepared on Main Street..

get ready..just the beginning..the curator TomDaly who recently addresed the Press Club will speak in New Rochelle on Nov 19th and 20th along with Charles Fazzinos studio on prints and more...we are grateful for their partipcation in supporting our unique Rockwell Restore, that helps sell furntiure, Rockwell and Fazzino Prints and more...as a benefit for Habitat..our other store is on Main Street at 524..what a great season we will have shortly.. stay tuned...

 

We also celebate our great meeting with Rev Dave from Bible Way, Carl from Iona College, Tom Cassidy from Mortrench, Keybanks marc Cobb and more all on our committee, for our work here in New Rochelle along with mr Lasser,

 

We have done 3 homes rehabbing in the past month here and will be helping to finish more during the holiday season as well as during the our first Annual Martin Luther Kng Buildathon Week!!!! what a blessing...a Gospel Fest, and more on Main Street, building and everyone a home, stay tuned!

 

Along with that forty mles north we have our Somers site moving ahead,  thanks to our Americorp staff three of them...Rosalind, Dan and Wyatt...who came on board to help us..doing a great job...thank you!

 

Our work has just begun in Westchester..this week i addressed Rotaries, John Jay High School, Blessed Sacrament High School, and more.. we are so grateful for all!!!!! God bless, Jim