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Family's home built with sweat and heart
Tuesday, October 27, 2009Meet the Twins Sometimes all it takes is a leg up, not a handout. The Enriquez family in Pacoima earned their leg up five years ago with their own sweat and commitment. After waiting four long years, they were the first low-income family to move into homes they helped build in a project with the organization Habitat for Humanity in Pacoima. Three children and two adults...
Jimmy Kimmel Live volunteers for Habitat for Humanity
Monday, October 26, 2009Jimmy Kimmel And Habitat For Humanity: Show's Staff Volunteers For National Service Week The Jimmy Kimmel Live staff showed their support this week by volunteering with the San Fernando Valley chapter of Habitat For Humanity . The group helped build a new house in a single afternoon, and still had time for some typical hijinks. ...
American Dream Walk photos on Hollywood.com
Saturday, October 10, 2009'American Dream 5k Walk' Benefitting Habitat for Humanity Photo Gallery on Hollywood.com Click here to view all of the photos!
'American Dream 5k Walk' Benefitting Habitat for Humanity Photo Gallery on Celeb
Saturday, October 10, 2009'American Dream 5k Walk' Benefitting Habitat for Humanity Photo Gallery on CelebrityPhotos.com Click here to view all of the photos!
Jimmy Kimmel, Melrose Place, 90210 and StudentStuff Help Great Cause
Saturday, October 10, 2009In case you were wondering what else we do during the day, here’s your answer. StudentStuff.com’s Marketing Director and Video Producer Extraordinaire Ali Vaziri and Business Manager Robert McLellan were among almost 100 volunteers who came together Saturday to produce the 2009 American Dream Walk benefitting Habitat for Humanity of the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys.
Cast members from 90210, Melrose Place, and Jimmy Kimmel Show attend Habitat for
Saturday, October 10, 2009Stars from two of The CW's leading shows 90210 and Melrose Place gathered at the Lowes in Pacoima. California this morning to celebrate phase three of the Habitat for Humanity project in Pacoima, which will consist in the building of the last 24 homes of the project. A total of 61 homes will be completed when the project finishes. Jimmy Kimmel taped a segment of the...
Bob's 60th Birthday
Saturday, September 26, 2009Bob's Big Boy Restaurant located at 4211 Riverside Drive in Burbank, California is the oldest remaining Bob's Big Boy in the United States. Over the years Bob's has seen a parade of celebrity names stop by for a hamburger. Movie stars of old have been regulars, with the restaurant serving some of the world's top musical talent and being the site of the celebrity attended Friday Night...
Gas Co. / CHP Challenge
Thursday, September 24, 2009Habitat race has a few detours Organization's motto for volunteers is: `They can do no wrong. Updated: 09/19/2009 11:08:52 PM PDT PACOIMA - Invite groups of untrained carpenters to a housing construction site, have them race to see who builds the most backyard fences in a day, and little mistakes are bound to happen. So it was when teams of volunteers from the...
Gas Co./CHP Challenge
Thursday, September 24, 2009Sawdust flew off of electric saws and into the hair of several California Highway Patrol officers from the Newhall division. The sound of hammers clanking against nails echoed across the construction site as captains, lieutenants, sergeants and officers sprawled across driveways with tools in hand. They worked quickly and together. One placed the leveler, while another held a...
KTLA/Habitat Happy Home Project
Monday, September 21, 2009Another Platinum Sponsor for the Walk
Wednesday, September 02, 2009Habitat welcomes are newest sponsors of the 5K Walk. Student Stuff is a new Gold sponsor and Celluphone has come onboard as a Platinum spososor.
Welcome Sponsors to 5K Walk!
Monday, August 03, 2009We are happy to announce The following Gold and Platinum sponsors to our "The American Dream" 5K Walk on October 10, 2009. The Gas Company, Santa Barbara Bank & Trust, CBS: Television Studios, and Bob's Big Boy, Burbank.
PSA with Rob Estes for Habitat For Humanity SFV/SCV
Sunday, April 05, 2009
'90210' Cast Volunteers With Habitat For Humanity
Tuesday, March 17, 200990210 castmates Shenae Grimes , Adam Gregory , Tristan Wilds , Dustin Milligan and Jessica Stroup volunteer their time on Saturday (March 14), helping Habitat for Humanity raise the walls of its 100th house in Pacoima, Calif. Following the build, the cast met with the families of the community and their fans. Additionally, in an upcoming episode of 90210 , the...
Habitat Affiliate Marks 100th Home Built
Wednesday, March 11, 2009Cast of hit TV show 90210 to join the celebration; Habitat's Strong Youth Movement to be Featured (Pacoima, Calif.) - It's cool to give back. That's the message that the cast of the popular TV show 90210 will deliver to young people from all walks of life when they help the local Habitat for Humanity...
Habitat has made happy homes
Tuesday, March 10, 2009SAN FERNANDO - Fifteen years ago, Eugenio and Lucy Alfaro each worked two minimum-wage jobs to make the rent on a home where their five sons slept in the living room. Then they were able to buy - and help build - a Habitat for Humanity home, the San Fernando Valley's first. "I am real blessed," said a teary-eyed Eugenio, 56, sitting with his wife and two grown sons by his...
Video: Brush with Kindness Program
Monday, March 09, 2009Habitat for Humanity SFV/SCV "Brush with Kindness" Program 90210 PSA for San Fernando/Santa Clarita Valley Habitat for Humanity's Brush with Kindness Program 2008/2009
Local Habitat For Humanity Builds 17 New Homes
Sunday, October 05, 2008Watch the Video: In the San Fernando Valley hundreds of volunteers took part in "World Habitat Day" by helping build 17 new homes for a Habitat For Humanity project. Sharon Tay reports. Watch Video Here
Housing crisis even worse than it seems
Tuesday, September 16, 2008In a recent editorial the L.A. Daily News cites a new Los Angeles Business Council report about the lack of affordable housing for workers and predicts the continued deterioration of our Southern California lifestyle unless we change course. This news couldn't be timelier, as the San Fernando Valley/Santa Clarita Valley affiliate of Habitat for Humanity prepares to launch the second phase of...
Habitat's work during the Santa Clarita Fires
Monday, September 15, 2008Dozens of volunteers roll up their sleeves to rehab home for Heads Up caretaker. A quiet neighborhood started bustling shortly after sunup Saturday when dozens of volunteers descended on the home of Jim Tindall, the caretaker at Heads Up Therapy On Horseback who was severely burned in the October wildfires. As volunteers walked from nearby streets, trucks unloaded...
Refugees find Home with Habitat
Sunday, September 14, 2008Building a Safe Haven Kathy is one of our most loyal volunteers, along with her entire family. She is a recent immigrant from West Africa refugee who by grace and will came to Los Angeles with her children to escape her war-torn country. She then arranged for her sisters children to follow. Most recently, her disabled sister was able to make her way out and join the family. Kathy works...
Meet the Angulos
Sunday, September 14, 2008Habitat Home Empowers Rafael to Realize a Family Dream Rafael Angulo and his family of six lived in a crowded mobile home, where four people had to sleep in the same bedroom. As the sole income source for his family, Rafael worked steadily for 24 years for a faucet company. In order to make ends meet, Rafael took a second job as a maintenance worker in his mobile home community. Working...
Habitat for Humanity's Cars for Homes
Sunday, September 14, 2008If you are thinking of donating a used car or other vehicle, Habitat for Humanity's Cars for Homes Program helps raise thousands of dollars annually for our programs. Your vehicle donation will make an impact on the lives of families in need of stable housing by helping Habitat for Humanity build homes and hope. Habitat is providing a hand up, and you can help! Habitat for...
Tindall's Home Rehabbed By Habitat, Gas Co. Volunteers
Saturday, June 14, 2008Dozens of volunteers roll up their sleeves to rehab home for Heads Up caretaker. A quiet neighborhood started bustling shortly after sunup Saturday when dozens of volunteers descended on the home of Jim Tindall, the caretaker at Heads Up Therapy On Horseback who was severely burned in the October wildfires. As volunteers walked from nearby streets, trucks unloaded appliances, gallons of...
