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everyday is gift...no question in life..if we were to look at the ways in which God has worked in our life today, we would realize, what gifts we have..the people who cross our lives, the friends, even the troublemakers who come in front of us...what do we do ..how do we respond, how do we appreciaate...

For me for those who help me with the mission of Habitat, it is a true gift..tonite it is one of the coldest nites of the winter.. no question...a roof, warmth,food, friends, ah but who tonite cannot dream, who is traveling long distances because no affordable homes..what children, have no home to sleep in,  like the mom and child who came in today, or the disabled person elderly, who called for Brush with Kindness..or the immigrant family who is in small apartment, having to have left their home, due to no work and the father dieing, all true stories...the song says, Oh Baby it is cold outside...no question, it is warm inside..can we help make it warm for someone who has no home, can we build more dream homes!!!! This is the year of Jubilee to do it..with gratitude. j

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hi from habitat, and Happy New Year..

 

This year proves to be our best one yet!  We will be building all over the county, in ways never seen before...from New Rochelle to Mamoroneck, from Bedford to Yonkers, we are embarking on a great new endeavor to make this a year that it is part of the conscience of Westchester that we CAN get EVERYONE A SIMPLE DECENT HOME...and begin on that track...

 

As I write this from our New Center at 524 Main Street, I am struck by the ability for us to start the New Year with this hope in Habitat, from here to all parts of the world....if our societies started with the premise that all should live decently and not pay fifty per cent or more for their rent or mortgage...we would be able to alleviate so many of the worlds problems.....

 

But our mission is focused on Westchester, for we have so much wealth, so much brain power, so much in terms of resources and the availability of building includes going up in the air with condos and coops, then we are able to think differently, green and with HOPE that so many more homes will be built for families in need.....this must include helping Seniors, helping Veterans, municipal workers, the average working person and family who will excel if starting from home ownership opportuniites...

 

This is our New Years Mission, it is exciting and we are proud that you have helped us in the past, continue to support us, and thank so many of you for all you have done and will do in 2008. May it be a banner year for all of us as we move ahead in Faith and Hope and Action, that EVERYONE CAN HAVE A SIMPLE DECENT HOME. 

 

May God bless you and yours with health prosperity and success this coming year. The Excitement is Building!

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helpers are back with us..Alex from Yale University, Pat from Iona Prep and Bruno, the boy scouts, Dave and his two sons, all helping us complete our move, we still need help...Alex Phillippidis stopped to say hi, formerly of the Westchester Business Journal and more..a great day..so we have been very successful in so many ways, so much has been blessed.. we believe everytime someone walks in there will be a blessing, no question...sounds funny, but it is true..for our work is profound and built upon people like yourself helping.. no question...this after returning back from New Orleans yesterday, helping people, and bringing back the spirit of NOLA for the work we will do here to raise money for our New Yorleans express thru our mardi gras..

along with that our advocacy for more homes this year will be profound..

so stop and see our new headquarters..Jim Killoran

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Everyday is gift..writing this from NOLA, talking to Rovella a great employee at starwood hotels...
the people, the music the food make Norleans she says, and the faith, you gotta keep that faith..it  has been a most successful trip planning for the New Yorlenas express, with a mardi gras event, and silent art auction raising support for our trip here in March to continue to help this great city rebuild... I am proposing a national conference on community service here with corporations...Yesterday I had a great lunch wtih Exec Dir. Jim Pate of New Orleans habitat, after i went out the ninth ward, and visted families and staff...we had helped build homes for there, we were joined by Flo Sno who we helped relocate back to New Orleans here, with her two great kids after they were displaced to New York from the Katrina migration...Katrina, Jim Pate, states that few people remember life pre Katrina...headlines in newspapers mark articles about recvery still, it should be a blessed year for NOrleans with the people here seeing two Bowl games, and mardi gras early, the economy looks bright..but the housing needs to come back..and that is why were are here, so Rovella and Stacy and Flo and Erica and Sharon and their families can all relocate back to live here, it is our American responsibility and Christian and Jewish and Muslim responsibility......

As i called back on conference call with my team, I pray for our construction in new york, i read  a Wall Stret Journal aritcle of Public housing designed creatively across the country, with dignity and  pride, rather than drab and depressing design...the New Yorleans express will see amazing things this year of 2008 coming, some of you have made  online donations to us, and you will amazing things this year by Habitat of Westchester, the Excitement has just begun and is building in ways that EVERYONE CAN HAVE A HOME...no question, with gratitude for New Orleans New Rochelle Metarie and Mt Kisco, and the towns and cities that we are all blessed to live in wtih freedom, jjk

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Twice the night before Christmas and all through the house....house, not many can afford one today....only apartments..the headline agains read, housing at a critical need..sub prime lending crisis hitting..rent go thru the roof...what child is born into our world in substandard housing today..into a world  that people cant dream of having a home.. or into a country that people dont have running water...i go to new orleans with my kids this week for a two day in and our trip that will allow me to be able to have them see our work we have done and help to set up our New Yorleans express trip later this winter...a group i helped to start will send 250 people to build in mexico the day after Christmas,where 6 homes will be built.- volunteers today work for a Christmas -eve build on homes to help build -and finish homes on Lincoln Avenue in New Rochelle and four homes -come to be put up this week in Yonkers...what homes are there, what child is this, what Christmas doyou celebrate...so remember many need a home, many need to dream, -twice the night before Christmas and we recommit that eve-ryone has a house, a home.. God bless, jjk------------------------------------------------------------------

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As i get ready to take my two sons to new orleans, thanks to a great donor who always helps. we will plan a trip for the late winter to bring a group there as part of our continued New Yorleans Express, New York to New Orleans, New Orleans to New York..one dream one team..Our efforts have seen Stacy and her family get housed, Sharon and her family have hope, Mary Luz and her family have a home and the list goes on...

An american city, now needing to be rebuilt...in our lifetime..some aruge no, but as we often hear, i believe charity and help should begin at home in our own country, and this is certainly something tht could happen to any American City, in some ways...like Mamoroneck ..etc..In February we will hold a Mardi Gras event and silent auction, more info to follow...this is part of a Christmas journey if you will, after having seen Millard Fuller the founder and JimmyCarter in Ga. last week, with a "faith" trip, this is more an Action trip to prepare for rebuilding there...needless to say this takes nothing away from our work starting in Yonkers this week...four more homes..four of four hundred Ihope...be blessed as one of my New Orleans families always says to me, as they call me Mr. Jim...be blessed to all of you this holiday season..jjk

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Back from Ga.. a great blessing to be with President Carter at the Fuller Center for housing and the founder of Habitat Millard Fuller..President Carter gave devotions and spoke about what needs to be done in terms of the world, his work and his hope and prayer for all,..it was a joy to meet with Fuller employees, Millard Fuller and Linda, and to inspire me to recommit to our mission, simple decent affordable homes for all.. no question..The theolog of the hammer during this time of Hannukkah , Christmas and Ramadan, encourages all to get involved to celebrate and to love one another thru helping those in need have a simple decent home..as we gather around the table for our holidays, please make a donation and prayer in Habitat's honor so others may have a simple decent home. God bless, jjk

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Lakeland High school habitaters came to the rescue in a big way today, helping at our Habitat Restore with the move.. many came by and our larger space is a great blessing..but let me tell you how important the youth of Lakeland High school are and their parents and teachers and their commitment to Habitat...

they come and volunteer anywherein the county with great attitudes, great inspiration great help...today they moved mountains again, no question....so to Lakeland High school habitat club, thank you!!!! You are the best again.. God bless, jjk

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wealth what we celebrate...a new hotel in white plains..overdevelopment which will surely cause agan the bronx river to overflow, and the down county areas...pr for the developer only that no one else is allowedto get their name, in, because the city is controlled by the developer..not just one city but many in Westchester...in the meantime, new rochelle has no affordable homes going up on any scale that the renters and their children will be able to live in in their future..the developer along with others in the city go back to CentralPark West..the night sleeps with no sounds of Christmas, no Silver Bells, its Christmas time in the city, silence, in New Ro....but wait we have our new building...at 524 main street a haven for headquarters of Hope...the small business community who are excluded from the incrowd pr, knows this...the residents who live here on evenings and weekends know this...it will surely be a great place of strength for New Rochelle and this county, no question!!!! so on Prancer, On Dancer, on Developer and Vixen, go south to florida while the rest of us are here, with the real Spirit of Christmas, helping those who are lower income to be lifted up out of poverty, to become homeowners, helping small businesses to make it incommunities, and to help Santa and real Silver Bells ring of freedom, opportunity and blessings for all...

join us Dec 22nd at our headquarters for the kickoff..

 

Last thank you to Scarsdale High School Habitat club..200 people came to the school cafeteria, who helped us build ginger bread homes and and raised money to help us have a great Christmas no question!!!!!!! more than 1000 dollars were raised with two hundred volunteers and families..now that's the Spirit of Christmas..jjk

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A NEW HEADQUARTERS ON 524 MAIN STREET NEW ROCHELLE..A GREAT PLACE FOR OUR KICKOFF OF OUR 20TH ANNVIERSARY CAMPAIGN, THREE FLOORS, GREAT SPACE, A TRUE BLESSING, WITH PRAISE TO THE ONE GOD THAT CALLS US TO LOVE, NOT HATE, TO BUILD NOT TEAR DOWN, TO UNITE, NOT TO FIGHT...THE THEOLOGY OF THE HAMMER IS IN FULL GEAR HERE AND WILL BE AS WE NOW MOVE INTO THE MANTRA EVERYONE A HOME....EVERYONE A HOME IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NO EXCUSES...

 

WITH THAT IN MIND, WE MUST MOVE AHEAD,..I DID A RADIO INTERVIEW THIS WEEK BEING ASKED ABOUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING..A LOCAL POLTICIAN STATED, WELL THERE ARE TAX INCENTIVES..WHICH I AM IN FAVOR OF, BUT I REPLIED, THERE ARE ALSO HUGE GIVES TO DEVELOPERS, NO ACCOUNTABILITY FOR HOLDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS IN THEIR BUILDINGS...WHOSE FAULT IS IT, THE DEVELOPERS..NO THEY ARE HONEST, THEY ATTEST THEY ARE THERE TO MAKE MONEY, IT IS THE LOCAL POLITICIANS WHO SAY THEY ARE IN FAVOR OF THE AVERAGE CITIZENS RIGHTS, AND THEN GIVE IT AWAY..WHAT A JOKE..ON THE BOWERY WHERE I USED TO HELP THE HOMELESS...THERE ARE NOW AVALON UNITS, LIKE BEHIND MY OFFICE..BUT THEY HAD TO DO TWENTHY PER CENT AT LEAST SET ASIDES...NO QUESTION..

BUT HERE WE HAVE BENT OVER ...BACKWARDS FOR THE DEVELOPERS ON THE BACK OF TAX PAYERS WHO GREW UP HERE WHILE DEVELOPERS STAND NEXT TO THEIR MODELS AND LOOK GREAT, OF COURSE, WHY NOT, AND IF THERE IS AFLOOD THEY FLY TO THE HAMPTONS ON THEIR HELICOPTERS, OF COURSE..BUT US, THE LOCAL TAXPAYERS,. WE HAVE TO PAY FOR THEIR DEVELOPMENTS THEIR HELICOPTERS, THEIR MODELS, THEIR GOLF, WHILE NO ONE IS LIFTED OUT OF HARTLEY YET,OUT OF OTHER PROJECTS OF YESTERYEAR...WHO ARE THE STUPID ONES HERE..TIME TO STEP UP THE PLATE WITH HABITAT, AND HIT A HOMERUN, SPEAK UP ACT AND ADVOCATE AND BUILD...MAKE YOUR DONATION NOW, WE HAVE ONLY JUST BEGUN!!!!!!!!

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