{"id":342,"date":"2009-02-23T20:59:11","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T02:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2012-02-01T13:29:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T20:29:46","slug":"habitat-bay-waveland-dedicates-99th-and-100th-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/post-id\/342","title":{"rendered":"Habitat Bay-Waveland Dedicates 99th and 100th Houses!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What an accomplishment for Habitat for Humanity&#8217;s 1st disaster response affiliate! Founded 9 months after Katrina, and with strong support from the Jackson, MS. affiliate, this affiliate has much to celebrate &#8211; 275 people are now living in safe, simple cottage homes in a little over 3 years. Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.habitatbaywaveland.org\/news_17.html\" target=\"_blank\">Habitat&#8217;s website<\/a> to read about their accomplishments.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"oy tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Thumbnail\" title=\"IMG_3613\" href=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3163\/3304757965_faaa08320c_z.jpg?zz=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3163\/3304757965_faaa08320c_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3613\" width=\"100\" height=\"57\" \/><\/a> On Monday morning the 99th house was partially complete and a slab was ready for construction on the 100th.  <a class=\"oy tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Thumbnail\" title=\"Kevin Pounding his first nail on his house\" href=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3611\/3305585654_8429c86a2f_z.jpg?zz=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3611\/3305585654_8429c86a2f_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Kevin Pounding his first nail on his house\" width=\"72\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a> Sixty volunteers and both families\u00a0 went right to work.<a class=\"oy tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Thumbnail\" title=\"100th House Habitat Homeowners Kevin &amp; Jahna\" href=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3263\/3304757235_d771feda4e_z.jpg?zz=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3263\/3304757235_d771feda4e_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"100th House Habitat Homeowners Kevin &amp; Jahna\" width=\"98\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"oy tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Thumbnail\" title=\"Patterson Team\" href=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3581\/3343021282_dd9f630c4b_z.jpg?zz=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3581\/3343021282_dd9f630c4b_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Patterson Team\" width=\"100\" height=\"55\" \/><\/a> By Friday noon, the gang posed for a photo in front of the 100th house, while much progress had also been made on the 99th house.<a class=\"oy tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Thumbnail\" title=\"Walter and Della with future homeowner Sally and volunteer Sue Baughman\" href=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3379\/3305586710_d268fa605d_z.jpg?zz=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3379\/3305586710_d268fa605d_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Walter and Della with future homeowner Sally and volunteer Sue Baughman\" width=\"100\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"oy tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Thumbnail\" title=\"Landry Family Dedication\" href=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3311\/3343022624_227320b0ff_z.jpg?zz=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3311\/3343022624_227320b0ff_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Landry Family Dedication\" width=\"73\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a> Some of the 98 families not only attended the dedications, but also provided deserts for the luncheon meal. Over 150 attended the noon celebration, including members from the Jackson affiliate and local dignitaries.<a class=\"oy tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Thumbnail\" title=\"Executive Director Wendy McDonald Acknowledges Participants\" href=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3470\/3304759175_224c478cca_z.jpg?zz=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3470\/3304759175_224c478cca_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Executive Director Wendy McDonald Acknowledges Participants\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a> No one had a dry eye, when the Landry children arrived shortly before noon to see their house for the first time that week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an accomplishment for Habitat for Humanity&#8217;s 1st disaster response affiliate! Founded 9 months after Katrina, and with strong support from the Jackson, MS. affiliate, this affiliate has much to celebrate &#8211; 275 people are now living in safe, simple cottage homes in a little over 3 years. Check out Habitat&#8217;s website to read about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}