Partner Families of Habitat for Humanity of Talbot County

Community leaders officially broke ground Sunday on the next Habitat Choptank home in Cambridge. From left, Commissioner Frank Stout, Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development Assistant Secretary Carol Anne Gilbert, Habitat Choptank Board President Dick Deerin, Mayor Victoria Jackson-Stanley, Governor Martin O'Malley, Habitat Choptank Executive Director Susan Devlin, Habitat Choptank Board member Rev. Keith Cornish, and Commissioner Donald Sydnor.

Habitat Choptank has helped Habitat for Humanity International achieve the rank of number 8 on the Builder 100 list. This is the first time the nonproft has been among the ten biggest builders in the United States.

Thank you to all of the Habitat Choptank volunteers, funders, and partners who helped complete six Habitat homes in Dorchester and Talbot Counties during the most recent fiscal year. Together, we are helping hardworking low-income families improve their lives and their neighborhoods through home ownership.

Tracy and Allen Lake are all smiles standing in front of their new home. Thanks to volunteer labor, Habitat Choptank is able to build its homes for under $90,000. Habitat home owners buy their houses at cost with an interest free mortgage. Under this arrangement, the Lake's monthly mortgage payment including principal and escrow for property taxes will be less than what they previously paid in rent.

The team from Easton Bank and Trust with (left to right ) Rick Heaton, Sage Roth, Dan Broskey, and Peter Lombardi took 2nd place at Habitat for Humanity Choptank’s 2010 Golf Outing at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay. Sage Roth also took the prize for ladies longest drive.

Thank you to the more than 30 businesses and individuals who provided sponsorships for our annual event including our lead Silver Hammer Patron Willow Construction.

Habitat for Humanity Choptank has hired Lee Weldon (left) as the manager of its ReStore which will open in mid 2010. Here, Weldon meets with Susan Devlin, executive director, to look over some of the home improvement and constructions items that have already been donated for the store’s inventory.

Habitat Milestone: 3 Construction Sites on 1 Saturday

Habitat for Humanity Choptank construction supervisor Rhodana Fields, left, works with Washington College volunteer Steve Stranahan to cut siding for the Habitat home under construction at 504 Edgewood Avenue in Cambridge. On the same Saturday, volunteers were also busy on job sites in Easton and St. Michaels.

Raise the Roof 2010

Christine DuFour, chair of the Raise the Roof 2010 benefit committee, greets Mike Burlbaugh of Elm Street Development and Habitat Choptank Board President Dick Deerin and his wife Susie.