Habitat for Humanity seeks families for new homes
Habitat for Humanity North Central Massachusetts is looking for families in need of simple, decent, and affordable homes to be built in towns in north central Massachusetts in 2012. Habitat homes are not given away, but sold at cost with a no- or low-interest mortgage. Partner/homeowners work alongside Habitat volunteers and staff to help build the home.
Interested applicants must:
- Currently live in substandard or inadequate housing,
- Have a steady source of income,
- Earn less than 60% of the median income for the area (for example, a family of four with income less than $51,720 per year).
- Be willing to help build their home and others.
Financed with 20- to 30-year, no- or low-interest mortgages, the final price for the homes will be approximately $120,000 with monthly payments ranging between $650–850 depending on income and length of mortgage. Less than perfect credit or lack of savings may not prevent qualification for a Habitat mortgage.
To find out more, attend one of the following informational meetings: Ayer Town Hall, 1 Main St., Ayer, on Thursday, May 3 at 7 p.m.; or St. Matthew’s Church, 435 Central St., Acton on May 5 at 10 a.m.
Contact Tracy Spiegel at 978-348-2749, ext. 205 or email tracy.spiegel@ncmhabitat.org for more information.
Adopt a rubber duck in Ducky Wucky race
The Ducky Wucky River Race, sponsored by the Ayer Rotary Club, will be held at the Nashua River in Harvard on May 12 at 4:30 p.m. You can adopt one duck ($5), two ducks ($10), a flock of 5 ducks ($20), or 13 “quackers” ($40) to qualify for many prizes, including dinner for two plus airfare and two nights’ hotel accommodations anywhere in the world. (Past contest winners have jetted off to Ireland, France, and Japan.)
All tickets sold by Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry will benefit the food pantry, which serves families in Ayer, Devens, Groton, Harvard, Littleton, and Shirley. To get your duck adoption papers, stop by the pantry or contact Judy Grande at 978-486-1090 or judygrande@comcast.net. Make your check payable to the Ayer Rotary Club
Celebration after-prom party asks for donations, loans of items
The organizers of Celebration, the safe after-prom party, are calling on Harvard residents to lend or donate any of the items below for use from May 18 to 19. Contact Debbie Noyes, debbienoyes@verizon.net, to make arrangements.
Furniture/pillows
- Two high cocktail table sets with two chairs or bar stools
- Two colorful bean bag chairs
- Four to six large colorful pillows
- One low and round cocktail table
- One bistro table with umbrella
- Primitive wooden benches
- Four to six bean bag chairs: green, brown, gray, tan, or black
- 10 pairs of matching beach chairs
- A 16 feet by 20 feet plain colored rug
- Wooden table, approximately 3 feet high, 5 feet wide, and 1 foot deep
- Wooden table, approximately 18 inches high, 22 inches wide, and 35 inches long.
Clothing
- Two safari hats
- Hawaiian clothing for men and women
- Jewelry to donate
- Men’s and women’s dress shoes to donate
- White dresses to donate
- Bow ties
- Cleopatra wig, black or brown
- Red and white striped shirt, to borrow
- Black pants, to borrow
Plants
- Fake plants: ferns, orchids, other tropical flowers, tropical plants, trees (large and small), vines
- Silk flowers to donate
- Four potted topiary trees, real or fake
Stuffed/plastic/wooden animals
- Stuffed jungle animals: including monkeys, parrots, and toucans
- Five stuffed animals: meerkat (Timon from “The Lion King”), life size or close
- Stuffed animals: kangaroos, koalas, crocodiles, snakes
- Plastic and rubber frogs, turtles, lizards, and snakes, preferably life size
- Six to eight gold, wooden, and/or stone animals (small, medium and large): cat, dog (Doberman style), giraffe, cow, etc.
Electrical/lighting
- Numerous long and medium extension cords
- Four rope lines
- Three clamp-style work lights
- Six 50- to 100-foot strands of white Christmas lights to donate
Miscellaneous
- Butterfly net on a stick
- Ball and chain
- Two older working bicycles, one- or three-speed
- Five boogie boards
- Two surf boards
- Beach games/ladder ball
- Three to five large plastic rocks
- Multiple nicely preserved sixth grade social studies Egyptian artifacts
- Six to eight plastic daggers, shields, and swords that don’t need to be returned
- Two to four stone columns, two, three, or four feet high
- Two to four medium and large stone urns
- Two to four medium and large gold urns/vases
- 12 interesting-looking baskets (large, medium, and small) covered, different shapes, natural, and colored
- Six to eight Egyptian statues (large, medium and small), gold, stone, etc.
- One or two stone or foam architectural slabs
- Multiple ivory-colored old tools, fans, instruments (recorder)
- One old wooden ship model
- Multiple Chinese checkers games, to donate
- Multiple Chinese dishes–not valuable–to donate
