Events
Part of Habitat's mission is to build ties within the greater community. One of the ways we do this is with our annual All You Can Eat Mexican Dinner. Our Partner Families cook up different regional specialties each year, an event eagerly awaited by 300 hungry diners each year. Second is our annual admission-free Kite Festival for hundreds of local flyers with food, fun, face-painting and other games for children of all ages. Also we periodically host a Virtual Auction where locals and newcomers to the Coast seek to outbid each other for parts of our next house which are colored in on a blueprint as each item is purchased. These events raise thousands each year and provide a lot of fun and excitement on the Coast.
Kite Festival
Foggy skies will not be a deterrent for the hundreds of kite enthusiasts who will turn out to celebrate the art of kite flying at the Eleventh Annual Habitat for Humanity Kite Festival on June 12th. The sight of kites of all shapes and sizes gliding up into the fog like so many elegant ghosts will enthrall the crowd of spectators. Children can make their own kites with paper, glue and colored pens, and gaze skywards as their creations take off to fly in graceful arcs over their excited heads. The afternoon's fun includes lots of great homemade tamales from Habitat family partners, mouthwatering food from Chef Silver Canul of Silver's at the Wharf, Hot dogs and Nachos. Admission and parking are free. Food is reasonable. Kites available for sale at Discount Prices.
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All You Can Eat Mexican Dinner
Habitat's Partners pulled it off again. Over 300 home cooked meals served to order under the management of Head Cooks, Graciella Morales and Nacha Padilla.
Once again the Habitat Family Partners wielded pots and pans to provide the community a feast of traditional authentic regional Mexican foods: tamales, chile verde, tacos, salads, enchiladas and specialty flavored water drinks.
Since it began in 1995, the dinner's proceeds have sufficed to build one house!
“You come to support Habitat but you stay for the food,” said Jim Jackson of Mendocino.“The chili verde, tamales and enchiladas all are excellent. I see a lot of my friends here each year and it’s a great organization,” he said.
Irene Gaeta had to search for just the right word in English to describe the thrill of getting a Habitat for Humanity home.“I feel very good about Habitat. It is too much. I like it too much. Muy Bueno,” she said as she labored over a hot stove.
Habitat for Humanity helps families get affordable homes, requiring them to put their own sweat equity into the project. Hurtado helped her future neighbor Graeta build her home and Graeta and her family will do the same, in old-fashioned barn raising style.“It is always worth it. You come home tired and work on the house and it is worth every bit of the effort,” Hurtado said. “Without Habitat I would never have had a house.”
“It’s a great way to create ownership, the people building their own project right from the beginning.” said Yarrow Summers. “This is a very important organization for people who might not have otherwise ever been able to purchase a home.”
When:
October 23rd, 2010
Cost:
$20 Adults, Kids 10 & Under Free! 
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