Habitat for Humanity of Otsego County
Home ~ Volunteer Opportunities ~ Houses We Have Built ~ Current Project ~ Partner Family Application ~ Habitat International~ FAQ ~ ~ Recent Dedications ~ ~Newsletter ~ Our mission to give a hand up can only be done with the generous support of many. And indeed, we have many people to thank. A Heartfelt thank you to all of you. Please know that everything you do is greatly appreciated by Habitat for Humanity of Otsego County
Many thanks are due to Pragmeta for hosting our site.
We were fortunate to have a group of RV Care-A-Vanners, giving us a tremendous helping hand with the Deselets new home in Middlefield Center.
Haggerty Ace Hardware donated hundreds of gallons of paint. We sold much of this at our fundraising garage sale.
The new Oneonta Home Depot has filled our pole barn with donated material.
The Oneonta Business Women's Group raised money to provide kitchen appliances for the Kilts' home.
Members of Christ Church and Lutheran Ascension in Baltimore, MD have joined us for a week to help with constructing our newest home in Hartwick.
The Aid Association of Lutherans/Lutheran Brotherhood helped to make the building of the Forgit home in Morris possible. As part of their "Building Hope, Building Homes" initiative they provided us with a very generous grant of $20,000 and also assisted in providing volunteers to build the home.
We were lucky enough to have over 120 youth and 30 adult volunteers from Severna Park, MD come and help us build two homes in July 2002. Photos from their trip here can be viewed at the Woods Work trip
The Gilbertsville Quilters created a beautiful quilt to present to the Cook Family during their dedication on April 26, 2003.
Students at Oneonta State College have made curtains for the Cook and Forgit families..
Bruce Downie accepts a donation from Cherry Valley Springfield Students during the Habitat 25th Anniversary Celebration. These students have been loyal supporters of HFHOC for many years.
Board Member Emery Herman thanks Mrs. Pete Buel
Bruce Downie hands Rev. Judith Quarles a certificate of appreciation for the Unitarian Universalist Church, one of our covenant churches.
HFHOC raffled a beautiful 21"x21" framed Needlework cornucopia handwrought by Lee Nusser. The drawing was held on December 1, 2000 and won by Lauren Pasternak.
Thanks are due to the Susquehanna Valley Quilters for the spectacular house quilt they designed and quilted for us. Diana Friedell won the quilt during our 10th year anniversary celebration in Hartwick on November 7, 1999.
Thank you to the Bruce Hall Corp. in Cooperstown. A very generous donation of 1300 gallons of paint was made in April 2000. We gave some paint to neighboring affiliates and sold more as a fund-raiser.
A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL OUR VOLUNTEERS Peter Axhoj & Bruce Shultis for supervising the pouring of the crawl space foundations for the Blanchard & Jackman homes. Alton Van Cleef has provided all of the excavating work & trucking Cobleskill Stone Products provided several loads of driveway mix & crushed stone. Leatherstocking Timber Products moved crushed stone around for us. Otsego Ready Mix provided a conveyer truck for a hard to reach foundation Brad Morely of Butternut Graphics made 2 new signs for our job site identification and Bill Morre framed them Liz Boggs of Oneonta Abstract provided a lengthy abstract for property in Hartwick and Martin Winsor did the same for our property on Meckly Avenue. Laurel White, one of HFHOC's partners, is a strong advocate for the deaf, hearing impaired and speech impaired. Laurel is HFHOC's contact person for those with a TTY. Thanks to Hartwick's Beyond Boundaries Program, Phi Sigma Phi, Tau Kappa Epsilon and Alpha Sigma Phi for helping to landscape the Blanchard's lawn. A big thank you to Stewarts of Oneonta for their very generous donation of 300 juices and milk for Woods Work . Many thanks go to Gene Chilion and the South New Berlin Central School. The school was a perfect location for Woods Work to stay at. Thank you so much for your hospitality! Thank you to the following companies and people who helped us welcome Woods Work so well: Norma Boyd of Morris Wal Mart Price Chopper Golden Guernsey Gilbert Lake State Park Glimmerglass State Park The Baseball Hall of Fame The Soccer Hall of Fame Hannaford Aid Association of Lutherans and local congregations Home ~ Volunteer Opportunities ~ Houses We Have Built ~ Current Project ~ Partner Family Application ~ Habitat International~ FAQ ~ Recent Dedications ~ ~Newsletter ~