SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Despite the gloomy weather Friday, spirits were high as the local organizations, public officials, and community members came together to celebrate the Meyre family moving into their new home.
Brenda Meyre shared that she felt overwhelmed, but was excited to move into her new home with her kids, Rebecca and Keith Cherney — calling it “perfect” from its location to layout. “I do have a truck reserved and we’re just going to start tonight, I want to start tonight,” Meyre said as she stood on her front porch, taking in her new street. “My adrenaline is at a thousand, it has been all week.
” The ability to make this dream of home ownership a reality for this local family was in large part possible because of Habitat for Humanity of Northern Saratoga, Warren, and Washington Counties, who built the home and dedicated it to the Meyre family at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday. “It’s been a long time in the making for them,” Habitat for Humanity of Northern Saratoga, Warren, and Washington Counties’s Executive Director George Earle said. “It’s exciting, for us and them, to finally have it done and they are ready to go.
We will be closing this afternoon and it is officially theirs.” The goal of Habitat for Humanity is to bring people and organizations together to build homes, communities and hope with a vision to build a world where everyone has a decent place to live. According to their FY2023 Annual Report, in 2023 Habitat for .