Yes, it's true -- buy a meal at Famous Uncle Al's Hot Dogs & Grille in Danbury (71 Newtown Rd; near Wal-Mart), from April 13-19, and 20 percent of your tab will go to Habitat. Thanks, Laura (that's Laura Provenzano, the owner)! Call 203-778-3647 for hours; open for lunch and dinner, and for breakfast on the weekend....

... and so is HHFH's Golf Classic --- this time, though, at Danbury's Richter Park!!!

Below, you golfers, your personal checklist:

For 7 years now, Housatonic Habitat has been shoehorned into an underground office suite beneath Danbury's North Street Plaza. The office was nice enough...but far too small for our myriad volunteers and meetings, and unable to accommodate growth.

But now, we can grow, because we're moving, as of April 1, to 90 Shelter Rock Road ...still in Danbury, but a much larger space -- large enough to hold volunteer-training workshops, off-site construction projects, and even a ReStore for the donation and sale of "gently used" construction and home products.

So stand by for more information, as we "ramp up" for an even more home building in 2009! And yes, drop by once we're settled, and see how you can make the Danbury area a better place to live for everyone....

Want a more detailed, more graphic understanding of Housatonic Habitat's work? Then watch our new PowerPoint slideshow, which illustrates, in photos and 'factoids,' why we do what we do. Download it - - 8MB, not too big -- by clicking on the HHFH logo (the small red house) you'll find on every webpage, or the narrative link on the About Us page. No PowerPoint? Then download Open Office -- an excellent, complete, freeware MS Office equivalent available at http://www.openoffice.org.

Habitat welcomes Danbury native Mark Medeiros to the position of Construction Supervisor. Mark is an Abbott Tech graduate, who was a self-employed contractor for twelve years. He is married with five kids and is looking forward to bringing his skills to help Habitat further its mission to eliminate sub-standard housing.