Habitat for Humanity of Greater Moses Lake just completed their 11^th home for a deserving family and plans for another Habitat home are underway. The Family Selection Committee will be holding a Family Selection Orientation where families can learn more about Habitat for Humanity as well as how they might qualify for a Habitat home. The event will take place on Monday, June 4^th, 2012 from 5:30-8:00pm at the First Presbyterian Church at 1142 West Ivy in Moses Lake.

Curt McFarland, Co-President of Habitat for Humanity says, “This is a first-time event for Habitat. We hope we can educated the community about becoming a partner with Habitat as we build more and more homes. Habitat homes are comfortable, clean, up-to-date homes that are owned by our partner families. Each potential partner family will be asked to fill out a Habitat Partner application and hear about Habitat’s work in our community. If the partner family’s income and home situation qualify them for consideration they will have the opportunity to find out more about what it means to be a partner with Habitat for Humanity. Selected partner families will be notified within 3-4 weeks of the event.”

If you are interested in helping with any aspects of building or any number of volunteer opportunities you can sign up on their website at www.habitatmoseslake.org. Many opportunities are available including construction, being a committee member, joining the board of directors, helping with the annual Festival of Trees fundraiser and more. You can also sign up online to receive information on Habitat for Humanity of Greater Moses Lake via email and you can become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/habitatmoseslake.

To contact Habitat of Humanity of Greater Moses Lake call 509-765-4030 or write to Habitat for Humanity 601 S. Pioneer Way Suite F PMB-278 Moses Lake, Washington 98837 or go to their website at www.habitatmoseslake.org.

March 25, 2012 – Moses Lake, Washington. Habitat for Humanity of Greater Moses Lake held a home dedication on Sunday, March 25 to celebrate the completion of their 11^thhome in the Moses Lake community and to officially hand over the keys to Kevin and his daughter Jasmine.

The sun was out in Moses Lake making this a perfect day for everyone involved. Over 75 people gathered at the new home to give a dedication. Prayers were giving, Habitat’s mission read and an overview of how the home was built was given to those in attendance.

Lee Creiglow, Habitat’s Project Manager said, “The build went really well, we worked from September through February and were able to partner with lots of businesses in town to complete the home.”

Larry Dennis, Habitat Board Member and Building Committee, said “Lee took a personal interest in the project, he made it a home for Kevin and his daughter. It’s a great location and will benefit the community.” [Read more...]

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Moses Lake is holding their Annual Meeting on April 12th at First Presbyterian Church on 1142 W. Ivy at 6p.m. The Annual Meeting is held for the purpose of electing directors, appointing officers, approving a budget for the year and transacting other business. The public is invited to this Annual Meeting.

The current officers are Curt McFarland, Co-President; Don Key, Co-President; Jeremy Boetger, Vice President; Sally Voight, Secretary; and Lynda Mikkelsen is the current bookkeeper. Other board members include, Larry Dennis, Cynthia Swan, Miriam Grigg and Carolyn Grant.

Curt McFarland, Co-President of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Moses Lake says, “ I want to thank everyone for their hard work this last year and I am looking forward to the new year and the challenges that it will bring for Habitat. We hope the public will join in our mission of putting keys to homes in the hands of those in need. We welcome the public to this and any meetings to strengthen our organization.” [Read more...]

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Moses Lake held an invitation only Open House for individuals in the community to learn more their local Habitat for Humanity Chapter in hopes they might want to get more involved in Habitat’s mission of putting keys to homes in the hands of those in need.

The guests were introduced to the present board members and were shown a video of the home that was just finished for a deserving family.

Amanda Anderson, a Moses Lake High School student, presented her senior project that she did involving Habitat for Humanity. Amanda heard of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Moses Lake through her father who works at Genie Industries. Amanda decided that she felt strongly with what Habitat was doing in our community and decided she could make a difference. She jokingly said out loud that she could make cookies and sell them to help raise money to donate to Habitat. She started her project in October and finished in January. Her project worked, she baked and sold the cookies at Moses Lake High School and raided $350 for the local non-profit organization.

Amanda presented a check to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Moses Lake for $350.00 to help with the cost of building a home for a deserving family. She also brought along the cookies that made a difference, frosted pumpkin chocolate chip. Everyone in attendance got to taste the cookies that raised the money for Habitat. [Read more...]

January 16, 2012– Moses Lake, Washington. Habitat for Humanity of Greater Moses Lake recently presented Roy & Judy Warnick with the Golden Hammer Award.

The Golden Hammer Award is presented by Habitat for Humanity of Greater Moses Lake to individuals & businesses that have shown their support to Habitat’s mission of “putting keys to homes in the hands of those in need.”

The Warnicks have donated Christmas trees to Habitat’s annual Festival of Trees for 17 years years. Roy Warnick’s mother, Betty Warnick an sister, Mitja Stansfield, were part of the first Festival of Trees back in 1994. At that time it was held in conjunction with the Catholic Charities organization. Judy Warnick says, “We asked my uncle, Victor Dietz, about purchasing trees from his Christmas tree farm in Greenbluff, Washington. He felt both organizations were worthy of support and has given us a “cut rate” on the trees ever since.” [Read more...]