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The Voice of Seguin Today
Volume 55, Number 115
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Pandemic doesn't stop the hammering for Habitat for Humanity By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
started this house in January, that it is almost finished. We still have deadlines to meet. By the end of July, we want to get the new homeowner in there. Her lease is up. So, these guys have kept this moving and quite frankly, if you ask them, this is their morning cup of coffee. This is what they do. They visit with buddies but they love building, “said Moreno.
up with a few of the core group members who were out building a home in the 1600 block of North Bowie Street. The group was out back tackliong a storage building and putting in some of the finishing details inside the home.
(Seguin) -- Essential employees were not the only ones keeping busy throughtout this COVID-19 pandemic. From the very beginning, a group of essential volunteers has also been working non-stop. Making their way to the job site every Thursday and Saturday has been an elite core of volunteers Among them was Garry Miller. Miller says for him, working with Guadalupe Valley Habitat for Humanity. Just this past Thursday, The Seguin Daily News caught on homes for others has been a 13-year commitment.
“I do it for a couple of reasons. The main one is more spiritual that I believe that faith without good works is dead so I believe you have to put good works together with your faith and this is just a great way to do it. I love working with families. It’s very very special to start off with a family who has no idea at all what building a house is about and then at the end of it, they have so much confidence. They are more independent, more capable of attacking anything that comes their way so it’s a wonderful process,” said Miller.
Thanks to this group of about nine individuals, one Seguin family will realize its dream of home ownership. While all other things are being cancelled or postponed, this group is working non-stop to ensure that the local chapter’s next house is ready for move-in next month. Carlos Moreno, build committee chair and board member, says these men are crucial to the local Habitat organization. He says when you have the goal of building three to five houses a year, it is this group that is going to help make that happen.
Mark Williams, who is usually the electrician in charge, says other than have to wear a face mask, he never thought too much about why the work of Habitat should come to a halt during this pandemic.
“Our core volunteers, they keep things moving. They order the materials. They install siding. They know how to build homes. We frame walls, paint and do all those things but the core guys during this whole COVID issue since March have single handedly kept this thing moving because we weren’t able to have big volunteer groups. Normally, we have church build days. CMC comes out and helps – just different groups on different times of the month and we just want to highlight those guys. Every Thursday, they are here and every Saturday they are working. You can tell that since we
“The guys that I work with on Thursdays, we are what they call the regulars and we’ve become almost like a family. We work at a distance from each other. I just didn’t see any reason not to keep coming and fortunately, the Habitat Board let us do that,” said Williams. See HABITAT, page 2
Gerardo Lopez 830-491-4295