It what seems like a tradition in the making, our second annual Hammering for Habitat event was once again a combination of bad weather and great response. Hammering for Habitat combines wall-building with fund-raising and hundreds of supporters turned out to do both on the rainy Saturday morning of Oct. 27^th.

At these events, supporters (usually in teams) sponsor 2x4 boards at $250 each and then hammer them into wall units for a Paterson Habitat home, complete with inscribed messages to the homeowner family. Our donors/builders raised thousands this year, led by the generosity of the congregation at the Hawthorne Ecumenical Council, who sponsored $3,000 worth of boards.

Once again the hammering was scheduled for the parking lot of the Paterson Museum and once again rain drove the action inside. The hammering noise didn’t bother  Jean Douge and his four-year-old son Jehu. Some of the wall units hammered together that morning will go into the new home Jean and his wife Elide (The Douge Family) are buying in partnership with Paterson Habitat. Many thanks to all of you who supported Hammering for Habitat 2007 and to Hunter Douglas, our corporate sponsor of the event.