Great article on our veterans build: Gretchen Kim, a matrimonial lawyer in Yonkers, donned a hardhat on Veterans Day and joined a crew of 15 volunteers from the Westchester County Bar Association dressed not for court but for an eight-hour day of manual labor. Kim’s husband and two sons donned hardhats too and added their manpower to a roughly 60-member crew of skilled construction workers and professionals from law firms and Goldman Sachs installing new windows and newly painted and measured siding on a home on High Street in Yonkers on which a bank had foreclosed. The two-story, three-bedroom home and two more foreclosed homes beside it were purchased by Habitat for Humanity of Westchester to be repaired and eventually deeded over to military veterans. The volunteers were part of what Jim Killoran, Habitat’s executive director, called “a veterans blitz build-a-thon” this month. The build-a-thon a few days earlier brought 35 volunteers from ING U.S., the retirement plan and insurance industry giant, to work at the same hilltop site that overlooks the razed and partly redeveloped site of the former Mulford Gardens public housing complex and affords a panoramic view of Yonkers, the Hudson River and Palisades and the George Washington Bridge in the distance. A Habitat for Humanity Westchester volunteer rebuilding a foreclosed home in Yonkers for ownership by military veterans. A Habitat for Humanity Westchester volunteer rebuilding a foreclosed home in Yonkers for ownership by military veterans. “I’ve always wanted to do it,’’ Kim said of the volunteer effort that had her working on a siding crew with her sons, who had the day off from their public schools in Yonkers. “It was on the bucket list. We live in Yonkers. This was a nice way to help the community that we live in.” A stalwart partner of Habitat’s Westchester chapter, Murphy Brothers Contracting Inc. in Mamaroneck, was paying 20 of its workers for their day at the High Street house. One of the contractor’s regular suppliers, Interstate+Lakeland Lumber in Greenwich, Conn., had contributed 20 high-quality windows manufactured by Andersen Windows and Doors. Andersen had deployed eight employees for the Veterans Day blitz, led by sales director Steve Nash from its corporate headquarters in Minnesota. They pitched an Andersen lunch tent in the dusty backyard where workers were served grilled hot dogs and hamburgers. Please click to read more: westfaironline/59119/serving-those-who-served/
Posted on: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 19:32:59 +0000
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