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Letter from the Executive Director
Dear Neighbors, Friends, and Supporters:
Habitat volunteers often express the satisfaction they feel when they look back on a project they worked on. New cabinets in a nearly finished kitchen. Stairs to a front porch. A window, a wall, a roof. It’s not just volunteers, however. Do you recall the sense of pride, accomplishment, and renewed hope we all had when the first timbers went up on Market Street, just a few months after the terrible fire?
That is the spirit that has emerged as our labor at 100 Parker Street moves from preparation and demolition to some of the most challenging and exciting construction we have ever done. As always, our volunteers are rising to the challenge.
Our volunteers have created five-foot concrete columns 14 inches in diameter to support new staircases. They have installed steel support columns, I-beams, and beams created from extra-strong laminate veneer lumber, all needed to create large open spaces in the homes we are building there. And as the individual units begin to take shape, we can see how light and airy they will be.
There is an excitement and energy at 100 Parker Street that is infectious. People working hard, for a good cause, learning to do things they never thought they would be capable of doing. It is a joy and a marvel to behold.
And it is all taking place behind the bricks. It is not visible from the outside of the building; it does not create a new silhouette against the sky. But the sense of pride and accomplishment on the part of our volunteers is just as real.
We work at 100 Parker on Thursdays and Saturdays. Join us in our work as a volunteer, or just come by to see what we are doing. Either way, you will be glad you did.
Larry Sharp
Executive Director
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