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NEWS
We are in the home stretch of the construction of Home #12 for the Roberts family, off
Roosevelt Avenue in Brewer! We have had a large number of great
volunteers helping this year. Call our office at 942-8977 or email us at
info@HabitatBangor.org
if you want to get involved. You can find the home location on
Google Maps by clicking here. And
click here
for a construction photo montage.
On Saturday, October 27, a number of men and woman volunteers from the
Student Chapter of the
Maine Section of the
American
Society of Civil Engineers and
a group from UMaine Rotary Club helped us build entrance stairs and
decks and rake and level the rear yard of Home #11.
On Sunday, November 18th we
will be at the Beth Israel Hanukkah Craft
Fair from 10:30 -
3:00. We will have a table there to sell house pins & matching
gift boxes. Please come see all the great crafts from local
folks.
On Saturday, December 1st we
will be at the John Baptist Holiday Craft
Fair from 9:00 -
3:00 and again selling our sell house pins & matching gift
boxes.
We finished construction on Home #11,
located off Fifth Street in Bangor, in January 2007. The Bonney family is doing
well and very happy to be in their new home.
There were over 100 volunteers that helped us accomplish the building
of this house. Thank you all! Call our office or email us if you want to get involved
on our next home - #12 off Roosevelt Ave. in Brewer. Click [HERE]
for pictures of the construction of Home #11 (needs updating).
A huge thank you goes to Stephen and Tabitha King, who have made a very
generous donation towards the construction of our next and last homes! For years, the
Kings have provided assistance to countless organizations for local
events. Thank you, Stephen and Tabitha, so much for your unwavering support of our community.
We are in receipt of another donated parcel of land off Essex Street. Thanks to
Brian Ames for this important donation. It is there we hope to build Home #14.
We have recently received the deed for a second lot off Fifth Street on
Bangor! By virtue of a supporting vote on March 28, 2005, Habitat for
Humanity of Greater Bangor became the recipient of the donation of two
small house lots upon City-owned land. We are building Homes #11
and #13 on these lots. Once homes are built upon these lots, long-time,
vacant non-taxable land will be placed on the tax roles.
We are very grateful that the
Bangor City Councilors have once again heard, and reacted to the need for affordable housing
in Bangor. Their actions demonstrate their care for this community
and its people.
The remainder of the vacant land will be divided and offered to abutting home owners in a
configuration that makes sense, reflecting the characteristics, shapes and sizes
of the existing properties.
St.
Teresa Parish,
440 S Main Street in Brewer, has become our latest
covenant church. Our covenant churches support our mission by:
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individual and group prayer
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provide a volunteer to act as liaison
between Habitat for Humanity and the Church body
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support us financially with the
taking of special collections and by organizing fund-raising events on our
behalf.
THANK YOU SO MUCH !!
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LAND SEARCH
We continue to seek land
opportunities such as this one in order to provide affordable homes for
qualifying partnering families in need. If you have a buildable parcel of
land which you'd consider donating to Habitat for Humanity of Greater
Bangor, please contact us.
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HOME CONSTRUCTION NEWS
We recently held our Ground Breaking Ceremony on Home #12,
located off Roosevelt Ave. in Brewer. The land has been cleared, the
foundation is in and four walls are up already. There have
been many offers from volunteers to help us accomplish the building of
this house. Thank you all! Call our office or email us if you want
to get involved. Watch for pictures of the construction, as it happens.
You can find the home location on
Google Maps by clicking here.
See pre-ground breaking
photos.
See construction-in-progress
photos.
Click here to see all
our
homes in the greater Bangor/Brewer
area.
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Upcoming Events
for 2007
On Sunday, November 18th we will be at
the Beth Israel Hanukkah Craft Fair
from 10:30 - 3:00. We will have a table there to sell house pins &
matching gift boxes. Please come see all the great crafts from local
folks.
On Saturday, December 1st we will
be at the John Baptist Holiday Craft Fair
from 9:00 - 3:00 and
again selling our sell house pins & matching gift boxes.
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Continuous Fundraising Events
As a continuous fundraising, we sell House Pins for
your shirt, blouse, label or coat. No two pins are identical. They can be bought
at one of these fine Bangor area businesses --
My
Maine Bag,
CitySide
Yarn Company and
North
Star Realty - and these professional animal care providers --
Brewer
Veterinary Clinic and
Green Acres
Kennel Shop. Stop in and buy one of these unique,
hand-made pins to help support our next home project. The pictures below
are
a representative sample of what the pins look like.
Also, consider bringing your bottle and can and bottle returnable
cans and bottles to the Big Red Redemption Center at 14 Baker
Street, Bangor (click
here for a map) and help us build affordable housing. Just designate
that your stash be credited to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Bangor's account.
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Notable
Events of the past
On Saturday, October 20 at the
Unitarian Universalist
Society of Bangor at 120 Park Street, Bangor, we
had our 4th Annual Harvest Supper
benefit dinner (formally known as the Potato Suppah). This year, Chili's
got involved and
contribute their favorite chili entree. THANK YOU! and thanks to all who
attended. We took in about $500.
We were at the
American Folk Festival on August 24, 25 and 26th. in the craft section selling our famous house pins, made by
Designs of Lucinda, a
previously homeless woman from Portland, Maine, who now has a business
making pins and selling them at discount to non-profit organizations,
like Habitat for Humanity, because our missions are similar - to help
others in need.
On September 1, the Ellingwood's Corner United Methodist Church
in Winterport held their 3rd Annual dinner with all proceeds going to
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Bangor. The dinner raised $500. Thank
you to all involved.
We were at the annual
John Bapst Craft Fair on Saturday, December 2nd,
2006. We hope you stopped by our booth
to learn more about our organization and the home that is now under construction.
We sold many of our famous house pins (see above).
On Sunday, December 3rd, we were at the
Beth Israel Synagogue, located at
144 York Street in Bangor, for their annual Hanukkah fund raising event, once
again selling house pins and passing out information about our organization and
its mission.
Our 3rd
Annual MAINE POTATO SUPPAH was
held
on Saturday, October 7, 2006 at the
Unitarian Universalist
Society of Bangor at 120 Park Street, Bangor from
4:00 - 7:00 pm. This eatable
fundraiser was complete with all the fixings like bacon, cheeses,
salsa, sour cream, chili, real butter and the like. Besides the Maine-grown potato entrée, there were a variety of green salads, desserts, coffee and punch.
It was yummy !!
The Ellingwood's Corner United Methodist Church
of Route 69 in Winterport held its 2nd Annual benefit supper for us on Saturday,
September 2,
2006 The bean supper with other items was delicious. This year the event raised $765 !!
Our Annual Meeting, was held on Wednesday, June 21,
2006 at 6:30 pm,
at the Holiday Inn Civic Center, on Main Street, Bangor in the Shamrock Room,
second floor.
Our 5th annual Yard Sale
was held
on June 3, 2006, at
14 Savage
Street, Bangor (click
here for a map). We raised over $1,700 towards home #11. Our yard sales are always a
GREAT opportunity to buy donated, new building products and materials,
normal good quality yard sale items and a chance to purchase some of the best
locally grown, annuals and perennial plants.
We were at the 12th Annual Hope Festival held on April 22, 2006 at the
UMaine Field House. Thank you to all who stopped by out booth to learn more about how our
organization works and to those who purchased a fund-raising item.
Our
Tenth Annual Valentine Party was held at
Jeff's
Catering in Brewer on February 11, 2006. This event was once again sponsored
by the Greater Bangor Board of Realtors. The over $8,000 raised by this event is
eligible for matching grants from Maine
Association of REALTORS and
First Horizon Mortgage Home Loans. Including the matching funds
nearly $10,000 was raised, which will to go towards building
new affordable homes in the greater Bangor/Brewer area. THANKS so much to all who made this possible,
organizers and participants alike.Note: All proceeds raised during all our events like these,
go towards the financial support of our next home project - Home #11.
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DONATE
Land & Building items
We are always searching for a
parcel of suitable land on which to build our next home and for new or
previously-owned building materials such as lumber, windows, shingles,
etc. If we are to continue our mission of providing partnering families
opportunities for decent, affordable housing and realizing the American
dream of home ownership, we need help from you in the way of donations of
land, discounted land opportunities or the contribution of building
materials.
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If you have a piece of land within close proximity to Bangor or Brewer
that you would like to offer as a donation, please give us an email or
call. Land donations are tax deductible in accordance with Maine and
Federal laws.
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If you would be willing
to give a considerable discount on land, Habitat for Humanity of
Greater Bangor may be interested in purchasing your low-cost
parcel, especially if the opportunity for the placement of more than
one home exists.
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Finally, if you recently
completed a construction project of your own and have a good quantity of
"leftovers" of building materials, please contact us. We will
either use these items in our next home or resell them with all the
proceeds helping to defray future construction costs.
DONATE
financially
Monetary donations are a core
ingredient that keeps our mission alive to provide affordable housing to
families in need. We appreciate any level of financial giving that you
consider and can afford. We are a registered 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization,
and as such your donation is tax deductible.
Click HERE for a printable .pdf
contribution form. We will soon be ready to accept donations via
PayPal.
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Volunteers like you are in constant need for ongoing
Habitat building projects. Our goal is to build at least one, if not two homes
per calendar year. Our last home involved over 100 volunteers. If construction activities are not your thing, you
could volunteer to help at a fundraising event or another one of our many
support efforts. For more information on how you can help us fulfill our
goals,
you can ...
It's not too late to help
with the construction of Home #12 for the Roberts family, off
Roosevelt Avenue in Brewer! On October 12th we had the official
groundbreaking ceremony, even though the foundation is in and all four
walls are up already. Call our office at 942-8977 or email us at
info@HabitatBangor.org
if you want to get involved. You can find the home location on
Google Maps by clicking here. And
click here
for a construction photo montage.
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APPLICATION FOR A HOME PROCESS
We regret that Habitat for Humanity of Greater Bangor will
NOT be accepting any applications during the fall of
2007, but hope to again SOMETIME in the fall of 2008. In the meantime, if
you would like further information about the process, please call us or contact us directly by email. If you would
like to download an application for reference only-
click
[here].(2.1mb) Please do not send
a completed Application to us as we will not be accepting any this
year.
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We build homes with our partnering families
whom must meet certain requirements. These include, but are not limited to
items such as:
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A demonstration of stable, steady income
ranging from around 30 to 50 percent of Bangor's median income for the
family size, according to available sources,
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currently residing in substandard living conditions or
need for relief from current shelter,
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and willingness to partner by
volunteering approximately 300 hours of sweat equity (labor) towards the
construction of their home.
At the end of the Application period, a
family-selection committee reviews the application, checks out cited references,
obtains a financial credit report on the applicant and considers whether the list of criteria have
been met. If so, the successful
applicant will be weighed against other successful candidates and one will be selected to partner with Habitat for
Humanity of Greater Bangor, Inc.
If you or someone you know is in
need of decent, affordable housing in the
greater Bangor/Brewer area, please call our office or email us for more
information about qualification requirements and the process of
applying for a Habitat home ownership.
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Bangor Daily
News ---
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Here's a
very nice article regarding our latest groundbreaking (see pages 4 &5)
WLBZ
Channel 2 - none at this time
WABI Channel 5 -
none at this time
WVII Channel 7 -
none at this time
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The
Habitat for Humanity International
(HFHI) website contains more information on Habitat's history, mission, volunteer opportunities
and contact information for other Habitat affiliates around the world. HFHI is
now building one house every 26 minutes and by 2005, expects to have helped
house over 1 million people.
If you are not in the greater Bangor/Brewer area, there are other nine
other Habitat for Humanity affiliates in
Maine.
A list is provided
here on
the Habitat of Humanity of Greater Portland website.
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Inc. is a locally-run affiliate of
Habitat for Humanity International, a non-profit, ecumenical Christian housing
organization. Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with local people in need to
build and renovate decent, affordable housing. The houses are then sold to
qualifying families at no profit and with no interest charged, allowing many to
enjoy the pride and dignity of home-ownership. Without Habitat for Humanity's
program, these families might not be able to own a home through
traditional means.