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Penny is helping us with our penny drive. Thanks Penny!
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| | The penny will soon be history! Habitat for Humanity has launched a nation-wide penny drive to round up all the pennies lying forgotten in jam jars, sock drawers, or under sofa cushions, and get them rolled up to help build affordable housing! You can bring your pennies to the following locations --
Westside: UPS Store, Westbank Town Centre Mall and Edo Japan Restaurant, Westbank Hub Centre North, Elk Road and Louie Drive. Kelowna, Duncan's Bistro, 375 Lawrence Avenue, Lawrence & Pandosy and
Creative Mobility, (one of our partners in our newest buid project), 7-1960 Springfield Road, near Kent Road. Thank you!
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Tickets only $5.00. First prize: Synlawn Backyard Putting Green, value $4,5000. Second prize: Play Golf Kelowna Tour Pack, value $370.00, 3rd Prize, Golf Travel Bag, value $200. Tickets are available at the UPS Westbank store or from any Habitat for Humanity director.
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This month at Original Joe's Restaurant on Pandosy, you can wet your whistle and help HFH Kelowna at the same time. Order a featured beer with their "community pint" program. Fifty cents per pint will be donated to HFH Kelowna. And every time you purchase a 50 to 90% deal through Smart Betty, they will give 10% of their revenue back to us. | |
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Building homes. Building hope. May 2012
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HFH Kelowna is a community-based, non-profit, faith-based organization working for a world where everyone has a safe and decent place to live. Now building on our 20th year in the Central Okanagan.
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STAR'S PAY IT FORWARD UPDATE
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Kieran needs a "Forever Home"
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Community Responds
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 | How many balloons will it take to "Raise the Roof?" Donate your tickets for balloons to find out how many balloons
it will take to float our house! |
Proceeds to HFH Kelowna
When: Saturday May 19thTime: 12:00 to 5:00
Where: Village Heights. Head South on Gordon Drive to Frost Rd. Turn left at Frost and follow the SHOWHOME signs!
ACTIVITIES: Full size bouncy house, roaming clown with some magic tricks up his sleeve, juggling and balloon art, face painting and tattoo station.
PLUS SNACKS and BBQ
Tickets are by donation. Minimum donation of: $1 per ticket, $10 for 12 tickets or $20 for 25 tickets. All activities/snacks are worth 1 ticket each.
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BUILDING ON 20 YEARS, PART TWO
| |  Kelowna's first home [In the first installment of this series, we described how some leading Kelowna citizens came together to found a Habitat for Humanity affiliate in Kelowna. The story continues below.] "The Kelowna affiliate of HFH Canada was speedily formed and the Hansens, after a series of interviews, were selected as the recipients of the first house." Construction began in the summer of 1993. As part of their commitment as partner families, they helped build their own home and then helped build two more houses for the next two families.
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Founding members of HFH Kelowna
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By the end of October [1993], the Hansens were in their new home. It was an impossible dream come true.... Interviewed two years later, Mrs. Hansen was still moved by the experience. "You get this big lump in the middle between your chest and your throat, you're so full of joy. You want to explode with happiness,' she says. "You want to do something for someone. You want to hug everyone and you just don't know where to start." [read more] |
REPORT FROM NATIONAL AGM
| |  Habitat for Humanity Canada's National AGM and Convention was held in Regina this year.
Habitat folks from across Canada came together. One of the things we celebrated was the amazing changes in an inner-city area that Maclean's magazine described in 2007 as "Canada's worst neighbourhood:" North Central was a place where "[g]irls as young as 11 or 12 regularly work the stroll. Regina's high incidence of break and enters, car thefts, street robberies and violent assaults has placed the city at the top of Canada's urban crime rankings for nine of the past 10 years."
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Vacant lots, graffitti everywhere, and boarded-up homes were a feature of North Central in Regina til Habitat moved in.
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