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Housing Help for the Homeless

Monday Morning

There were 13 members and one guest at Monday’s meeting. Katie Karls was our guest. Marlin and Glen were our greeters. Dan did the grace. Steve had any humor. Bonnie had a happy buck for those who helped at coat distribution. Steve was happy for snow in Madison and a Purdue win. Gary had a happy buck for a great Brewers season. Pork Fest wrap up meeting is Oct. 25th 7:30 Pancake Day. Start your Christmas List, Harry has the popcorn sheets out. Rewards winners, get your CHARITY to Harry.  Harry was winner and winner. He drew ten of diamonds and won $10. There are 46 cards left with a pot of $45.00. Remember that we have a Kiwanis web page and Facebook. If you are on Facebook, you can like our page.

Habitat for Humanity, Katie Karls

Katie Karls is the new executive director of Habitat for Humanity Fond du Lac County. Katie’s background was meant for Habitat. She lost her house and mother to a tornado as a child in Shiocton. Her neighbors helped rebuild their house and she still remembers the great feeling. She, her husband and three kids live in Marytown. They are almost done with the 2018 house. It is at 471 E 2nd St. Drive by to take a look. The 2019 house is a project to rebuild a house out on HH. In 2020, they will build a house in Oakfield. In addition to home building, they have the Habitat Store. If you have items, they will pick up for you. Or if you need items to build, stop in.

Habitat for Humanity Continues Incredible Outreach to Community

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Monday Morning

We had 16 members at our Monday meeting at the Retlaw along with our speaker Paul Osterholm from Fond du Lac Habitat for Humanity.  Gary Miller continued promoting the Noon Club’s Grilled Cheese & Chili Lunch on February 19th as our February Inter Club.  Happy Bucks were offered up by Jan Krug for being in California last Monday and in Mexico for the next two Mondays, Bonnie Baerwald for a successful Project Linus last week and Gary Miller for the upcoming Noon Club InterClub.  Vickie Goldapske was the 50/50 Raffle winner again on Monday and she drew the Seven of Diamonds, another non-winner.  Next week’s drawing will have 49 cards, including eight pay cards, and a pot of at least $30.

Paul Osterholm, Habitat for Humanity

Paul Osterholm joined us on Monday morning to give us an update on the local Habitat for Humanity operation.  They recently moved into their new space next to the Fond du Lac Children’s Museum.  Paul welcomed everyone to come out and see their new space and shop for items that you didn’t even know you might need.

The next Habitat House will have a ground breaking at their new build site at 596 S Main Street in April 2015.  This new home will be a 1,200 square foot, three bedroom home with a basement but no garage.  Paul estimated that the total cost of the home will be in the $115,000 range.  This will be the 27th home built by our local Habitat in the Fond du Lac area.  The past 26 homes have contributed over $50,000 in real estate taxes since the first house was built in 1996.  Over 1,600 volunteers participate in building a Habitat House along with a number of businesses that contribute supplies and workers in these build efforts.  Lowe’s sponsors “Ladies Month”, which for the 2015 build will be all of the weekends in May.  All Habitat Houses are five star energy rated homes.   In addition to all of the volunteers and businesses, the new family is required to put in at least 300 hours of sweat equity toward the building of their new home.  Habitat acts as the bank and holds a 0% interest mortgage on the new home.

 

Habitat for Humanity Accomplishments and Goals

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Monday Morning

We had 18 members at Monday’s meeting along with our guest speaker, Paul Osterholm from Habitat for Humanity and two guests, Dawn Rehrauer from Grief Relief and Dan Hebel from Boy’s & Girl’s Club. Gary Ring presented checks of $500 each to Dawn and Dan for our matching grant to his Cheers for Volunteers donation. “Happy Bucks” were offered by Glen Treml for his granddaughter’s baptism on Sunday, Vickie Goldapske for a successful and fun archery golf outing this past weekend at the NFDL Archery Club and Gary Miller ($2) for the Bicycle Loop dedication on Saturday and for his golf league starting on Wednesday. Glen Treml was the 50/50 Raffle winner and he drew the eight of Spades, not a winner. Next week’s 50/50 Raffle drawing will have 22 cards with five pay cards and a pot of at least $413.

Habitat for Humanity – Paul Osterholm

Habitat for Humanity of Fond du Lac County has an open-door policy. All who believe that everyone needs a decent, affordable place to live are welcome to help with work, regardless of race, religion, age, gender, political views or any of the other distinctions that too often divide people.

Habitat for Humanity of Fond du Lac has completed 23 homes in the community. They have placed 104 family members into completed houses in Fond du Lac County. Homes have been built in Fond du Lac, North Fond du Lac, and Ripon.

Habitat houses around the world are built according to the same 3 guiding principles:

  • Simple: Habitat houses are modestly-sized. They are large enough for the homeowner family’s needs, but small enough to keep construction and maintenance costs to a minimum.
  • Decent: Habitat for Humanity uses quality, locally-available building materials. Habitat house designs reflect the local climate and culture.
  • Affordable: The labor of volunteers and partner families, efficient building methods, modest house sizes and no-profit loans make it affordable for low-income families to purchase Habitat houses.