San Antonio is one of the best communities in the world. There’s never a shortage of fun activities but the people in our community are one of the biggest reasons that San Antonio is a great place for an extended stay.
The people of our community are always helping to make San Antonio the best place it can be. Check out this story on some of our awesome citizens!
Habitat for Humanity celebrates its 1,000th home in San Antonio – San Antonio Express-News Two Decembers ago, 7-year-old Raelyn Marie Guevara came home from Roy Cisneros Elementary on the West Side and handed her mom, Reyna, a neon green Habitat for Humanity flier she had picked up at school.
“Mom was like, ‘Oh, we can’t ever qualify for one of those things,’” said Raelyn, now 8, on a bright, busy Saturday morning. “And I was like, `Oh, come on, Mom, just fill it out. You never know.’”
Raelyn was beaming as she told the story, with her grandmother beside her, just moments before she got to see for the first time the Habitat home that was built for her, Reyna and a second child on the way all because she nudged her mom two years ago.
The single-story, 3-bedroom house, is one of 14 located in Lenwood Heights, a new neighborhood off Acme Road on the West Side, that Habitat dedicated Saturday, celebrating the 1,000th home that the San Antonio chapter — the oldest Habitat affiliate in America — has constructed since its founding by a local Presbyterian pastor’s wife, Faith Lytle, in 1976.
Hundreds of Habitat volunteers, full-time construction workers, future homeowners and well-wishers filled the tidy neighborhood yesterday, as crews of Valero volunteers wheeled out new sod to front lawns, swept driveways and mingled with real carpenters doing measurements for cabinets. Read more…
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