News

The first annual HFHOC Golf Tournament
will be held at the Oneonta Country Club on
Sunday, July 12.
Mark your calendars now.
More information to come!

Founders Day Celebration Sunday, May 3, from 2:00 to 4:00pm at the Habitat Offices, 50 Dietz Street was a great success with more than 50 people in attendance. We recognized many of our longest-serving and most dedicated participants. And mounted plaques with their names in the office. Stop in and see!

Construction Committee:

Greetings:
To inform everyone of the construction progress made last week at our building site.

Volunteer work is on a temporary hiatus as we line up the next build.

The next opportunity for volunteer work will be June 11th (Thursday) when we will organize the tools and materials at the Pole Barn in Hartwick. Directions to the Habitat Pole Barn in Hartwick are given at the bottom of this email.

Volunteers must personally sign-in at the work site each day in order to be covered by our insurance.

If you plan to volunteer for work, please sign up with the "Volunteer Now!" button here so that we know in advance how many volunteers to expect. If you sign up and then can't make it, please cancel on this website.

5/31/2009

Last week there was no scheduled volunteer work.

24 Monroe Avenue: Alll inspections were met and the Certificate of Occupancy was obtained. Closing will occur in June.

Other Habitat Happenings:
    
Our monthly Board Meetings are held at the Elm Park Methodist Church 7:00 pm, the first Tuesday evening of each month. The public is welcome. Our next meeting is July 7.

Our Annual Family Selection Open House is June 9, 7:00 pm at the Elm Park United Methodist Church. Come see how the process works, and get help filling out an application if you're interested.

Committee Meeting times and dates are listed below.

Respectfully submitted,
Mike Donahue
Chairman: HFHOC Construction Committee

Directions to the Monroe Avenue Site (Oneonta)
From Main Street in Oneonta go North on Ford Avenue for 5 blocks. Turn left on Monroe Avenue (last left turn before Ford Avenue ends). Go one long block to Central Avenue - build site is on the left, one house after Central Avenue.

Directions to the Pole Barn (Hartwick)
From Oneonta, take Route 205 north to the village of Hartwick (about 15 miles north of Oneonta). Turn left (West) at the 4 corners onto County Route 11.
Follow this about a half mile, to where the road takes a bend to the left and Weeks Road goes sharply to the right. At that bend, directly ahead of you is a large white house, driveway on the left, and pole barn in the back. Take the driveway up to the pole barn.

Directions to the HFHOC office on Dietz Street (Oneonta)
In Oneonta, take Dietz Street North from Main Street and turn right into the large municipal parking lot between Dietz Street and Ford Avenue. Park at the North end of the lot close to the office complex at 50 Dietz Street. The HFHOC office is located in Suite M.
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Remember, our regular work days are Thursdays and Saturdays, starting promptly at 8:30 am, and working until 4:00pm.
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Donations
Honor a loved one with a donation in their name to your local Habitat for Humanity affiliate. Please contact Habitat International and designate your gift for Habitat for Humanity of Otsego County Click Here to Donate to Habitat International!

We are currently looking for a building plot in the Cooperstown School District. If you are able to donate a plot,, anywhere in the county, please either email us or call 432-7874.

Our WISH LIST:
This is a list of stuff that we sure wish we had. If you are of a mind to donate any of these things, we’d be proud to take it. And remember, your donations are tax-deductible and we can supply you with a receipt. Call our office at 432-7874 and Trish will gladly talk with you about how you can help.

Pennies from Heaven:
Cash – we are always grateful to receive, in any amount. And stop by our office to check out our Habitat merchandise – books, hammers, notecards – all priced to sell!

All your worldly goods:
We urgently need refreshments for our laborers. Lunches, morning snacks, and cases of bottled water, juice, iced tea, lemonade, and sports beverages would be terrific.
We could really use a foldable plastic picnic table, to replace the extremely heavy wooden table that we currently schlep to and from our worksites.
And, for our public relations and speaking engagements, we would really love a “Show Style” brand display briefcase. It’s sort of like a tri-fold poster board, but very sturdy, durable, and portable.

A gift of LAND – we need building lots all around Otsego County. Donations are great, but if you have some land you’d like to sell, we may buy it if the location and price are right.

We need people to volunteer behind the scenes on our family, fundraising, public relations, and volunteer committees. And people for our Board of Directors. For a relatively small donation of your time, you will receive a world of fun and friendship in return.
We would like a person who has the experience and contacts to promote us to local and county governments.
We would also like a person with photo/video experience who could develop a promotional video!
And if you have specific building skills to bring to the site
(and maybe a desire to teach or lead a small crew) – wow!

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