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Happy Monday!  A nice weekend, busy needless to say…many people don’t realize our Mondays are really on Saturdays and Sundays when so many come to volunteer…and today is like Wednesday..does that make sense..

 

I send some of my staff to meet in Baltimore today for a construction conference..going to learn and be with out affiliates…from across the country…God willing I will be with them one day there as this week is another busy one.  We kick off our foreclosure ACTION COMMITTEE TEAM……FACT this week in Mt Vernon..we then have work on our great American Dream Luncheon…I also meet today over purchase of our Headquarters…so much to do, then full court press on long awaited projects in Yonkers…no question….with that in mind we move ahead…helping to see our work go Strong..KEMBE FEM..the Creole term is Stay Strong..Live Long Be Blessed!!!!!!

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Office:914-636-8335 ext 101

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

Visit our New Warehouse Location at 

2 Cortlandt St, Mount Vernon.

American Dream Lunch - Thursday, June 3, 2010

Yonkers Event - 66 Main - Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Please visit us on the web to find out more info!   

 

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A blessed day overall…Happy Moms day…for sure….every day is gift..every second, every mom is gift…no question!

With that in mind I go to the Haitian church today to pray for Haitian Moms…for my own mom, who suffered..with the likes of loss of a husband on my sixteenth birthday, but raised us with hope and love and I am blessed..i got off  the phone..with someone who is working with me, a mom of millions….to fight dissentry, to fight poverty to help so many…the world can be changed, one call at a time, one day at a time..

When I went to Haiti , I was on the outskirts, and saw kids in the river…bathing with moms, but drinking the water..water is a killer, it is alife saver, but dissentry and unclean water is a killer…we are working on getting volunteers tohelp in some areas to build filters for water…stay tuned, as well as homes..

 

Walls of Love..hands of love, hearts of Love….Abraham Lincoln talked about the arms of a mom rule the world…guide the world, guide the future of their children…with that we work with moms, and guide the continuing lives of the children,  in walls of love..Habitat homes…multiplied..across the country and the world..yesterday I want to thank Riverdale Presbyterian church and the Larchmont Temple brotherhood for volunteering with us…

Helping us, building with us…we worked in our nine home neighborhood and saw volunteers with us, changing the neighborhood…a former lot now a Habitat community garden where we will have a cookout there….Veronica a mom of triplets came running, we helped the volunteers in the garden, it looks great…Mrs. Diaz..Mr Rosales and more worked with Judy and Susy like I did in the morning in the rain, transforming the lot…we have changed lives together, walls of Love Hands of Love, 

Triplets for Triplets….during the week, trhee triplets from Valhalla coming from Suny Binghamton, came into my office, you are recipients I told them of scholarship money, for school, for your lives, for your hope, for your career by the Lanza family foundation…they are getting their school out involved with habitat, they are building, they are starting anti bullying campaigns, and helping us all over.. what a blessing…..

So the triplets will mentor Veronicas triplets who are 8 years old…

To all the Moms to all the Dads, to all the kids the triplets to all of your family..Happy Moms day, Happy day of Love, be Blessed!!!!!!

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Office:914-636-8335 ext 101

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

Visit our New Warehouse Location at 

2 Cortlandt St, Mount Vernon.

American Dream Lunch - Thursday, June 3, 2010

Yonkers Event - 66 Main - Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Please visit us on the web to find out more info!   

 

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A great morning..early morning calls a time when not too many interruptions…time to pray, write grants, think of the day past, the day ahead..think of changing neighborhoods, lives, families, volunteers, donors..all blessed to be part of Habitat.

Today I got to a prayer breakfast that in 2007 founder Millard Fuller spoke at….you could hear a pin drop when he spoke…the former Mayor of White Plains, two years later..spoke at a big event at the Sheraton in Manhattan for us..with dgnitaries, ceos and more…and got up and talked about Millads speech that day, and how it inspired every person in the room……

 

Who inspires you in your life…where are they leading you..what do they lead you into…Habitat heroes are those like Tom Roach who is city council president of White Plains..but he is not the hero, his two sons, 5 and 7 are, who raised their hands in a packed white plains room with a hammer like motion and showed everyone they all had to Hammer with Habitat..( I know Tom is the hero to his kids and many) Habitat heros is Tess who comes in to

Help us this summer, coming back, from high school, college, and now a lawyer to be..she will help us with legal work…Habitat heros is Eliah who was on my radio show, who is on the Westchester Youth Council, who said, we have to Green the community…Habitat heroes are Rose Browns kids who looked at the plans at our event in White Plains…with a Christmas morning like Joy in their eyes, which one is my room….waiting for the home to come….

Who Inspires you…will you be a Habitat Heroe….God bless, with gratitude and prayer

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Office:914-636-8335 ext 101

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

Visit our New Warehouse Location at 

2 Cortlandt St, Mount Vernon.

American Dream Lunch - Thursday, June 3, 2010

Yonkers Event - 66 Main - Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Please visit us on the web to find out more info!   

 

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A great Cinco de Mayo…yesterday I was honored to volunteer at the local soup kitchen, where Mariachis sang their hearts away..Today we have our own Cinco De Mayo wine tatsing in White Plains with an event for Rose Browns home…

Exciting,.. we move ahead and see what we can do to help our local community..we also have congregations and companies that are signing up to help us..we also welcome BNYMelon out on our sites today to assist us…does it get any better…

Join us in thei vital mission to help!!!!! Change the county, change the world..Gracias, BENDICIONES

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Office:914-636-8335 ext 101

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

Visit the grand opening of our New Warehouse Location at  2 Cortlandt St, Mount Vernon on April 27th.

 

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Ezekiel 34: 18 states, Was it not enough for you to graze on the best pasture, that you had the trample the rest of your pastures with your feet?  Was it not enough for you to drink the clearest water…that you had to foul the remainder with your feet?  Thus my sheep had to graze on what your feet had trampled and drink what your feet had fouled….

 

This reminds me in my morning prayer, how we have to save the earth…no matter what faith, we are keepers of the kingdom..and stewards ot the planet and community…This morning an email from my friends at WJCS states, Jim, you reminded us about Jacobs Ladder, to climb it to build it to help protect it…Tikkum ellum..and to do good mitzvah..what an honor to be remembered in that way..

How are we saving our communities, how are we greening our communities, how has too much development trampled the pastures of our communities, with too much concrete, too many malls, few main streets, and little affordable homes..

But as we know later and in the Torah and Bible, the earth can be Renewed, we like in Isiash can be Repairers of the Breach…if not us,,…who…..God bless you..

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Office:914-636-8335 ext 101

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

Visit the grand opening of our New Warehouse Location at  2 Cortlandt St, Mount Vernon on April 27th.

 

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Parade Sunday Magazine touches upon where America Lives..

Where do we live..how do we build community..today I had a high school group who said they have no sidewalks in front of their homes..yikes.

 

Green homes mean small homes…clean and not large…helping to know your neighbors..you can still save more money by having a small home, saving energy..and use it for taking more trips.. a better eduation..or whatever…also use different pavers now, no concrete..pervious pavers help..change the way we design our world now…

 

Thanks to the Junior League for all the help with the bikeathon. The JLNW, Pelham Junior League and the Mid Hudson..a blessing.

This week Ursuline High sells two by fours..Bank of NY Mellon comes out..how about you..JOIN US!

Last we supported a benefit in memory of Stanely Rice…the daughter and Grandmom are blessed people..we are on their team now!!!!!!God bless.

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Office:914-636-8335 ext 101

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

Visit the grand opening of our New Warehouse Location at  2 Cortlandt St, Mount Vernon on April 27th.

 

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Rainy Monday morning for sure…here we are ..roads get flooded…Alycia Keyes song talks about New York New York…concrete jungle..

Today look at every bit of concrete see if it might be green, imagine it green, a garden. Pervious pavers, imagine main streets with street fairs, and cars rerouted away from peoples air quality and their moms and children who walk up and down…it can happen..across the country..green movements and walkable cities are changing school yards, corporate areas..municipal housing, etc…

 

This weekend we worked on six homes, painted aplayground, built a tool shed for a community garden, and worked in our Restoers…

Does it get any better…Join us!!!!!!

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Office:914-636-8335 ext 101

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

Visit the grand opening of our New Warehouse Location at  2 Cortlandt St, Mount Vernon on April 27th.

 

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Instead of Whooping it up, my sister said, they built it up..when I told my sister that 14,000 students came and built with us…WPI a university in Worcester, Ma.  where I was born, called yesterday from the Worcester office….we wanted to say hi….we want to come again…with Lucy calling from the staff there..near where I was born on the third floor of a three decker they call it, three apartments in single mundane looking buildings..but it was where my mom carried the coal up the stairs..where my uncle and aunt visited, where a parking lot is now, off of Park Avenue, Charlotte Street..

From Worcester to Westchester ….everyone a home….

Along with that Holy Cross students often come here…to visit, the other area where my father was born, the poor irish at the bottom of the Holy Cross hill..next to the railroad tracks….it doesn’t get any better than that..

 

Each day is a gift being part of Habitat…today I give a tour to Pat, our homes in Yonkers, a charter school where our kids go to school, Enrico Ferme too, as well as our Green Intiatiives….which today I announce THE TREE STREET INITIATIVE!!!!!! GET READY..GREENING THE TREE STREETS..

AMAZING..just like taking back a parking lot where people were born, bring back the tree streets..

More to follow…God bless you all..jim

 

 

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Office:914-636-8335 ext 101

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

Visit the grand opening of our New Warehouse Location at  2 Cortlandt St, Mount Vernon on April 27th.

 

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An exciting day.. a tour of our wholesale Restore this day, during Earth week..coming together, working hard, helping to do great in all we do..

We are building ahead in ways that are positive, helping to change community after community, helping to make it happen…to change lives to change generations, to change volunteers hearts to teach building and construction and more…

Last nite a shout out to the Liosn club, the whole district as I was honored to speak to 20 R 2 there, to all the clubs from Manhattan, to Eastchester, from New Rochelle to the Bronx and everywhere in between, a great event..tehy may help to sponsor another home, they may help to sponsor a home in Haiti, stay tuned.!!!!!

 

Yesterday the Guzman family stopped to say hi..whose baby was killed in a tough neighborhood..now they have a new home, their son graduated college, a new daughter..a safe habitat neighborhood watched over by angels…God bless them.!!!!!!

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Office:914-636-8335 ext 101

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

Visit the grand opening of our New Warehouse Location at  2 Cortlandt St, Mount Vernon on April 27th.

 

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A great weekend …never a dull moment, thank you to West Point cadets..for sure..for all we do, we have been blessed

The list includes who helped. Ardsley High school, White Plains, Congregation Emmanuel, Iona Prep, Grenwich High school, Bronxville Reformed Church, and many many more…

With that in mind we are blessed to be on the tail end of finishing homes for our families in Mamoroneck, getting ready for the white plains house..

And a May 5^th..beenfit at td bank north…June 23^rd we honor Pat Lanza and Congresswoman Nita Lowey, along with Mary Bonner and Antera Diaz and others….

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Office:914-636-8335 ext 101

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

Visit the grand opening of our New Warehouse Location at  2 Cortlandt St, Mount Vernon on April 27th.