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Volunteer at The ReStore
New ReStore Hours
ReStore Hires a New Manager
Belk Charity Day!
Meet our New Executive Director: Mark Prokop
World Habitat Day - October 6, 2008
Welcome Home Ostrander Family
Granville Habitat for Humanity is now on MySpace
ReStore Celebrates it's First Year
Granville County HFH meets with Bible Baptist Church

Volunteer at The ReStore

The Re-Store is always looking for volunteers to help out on Tuesdays and Saturdays. If you are interested in volunteering or have any questions about the Re-Store, pleas contact our Re-Store Manager, Barbara Chapman at granvillerestore@embarqmail.com. We invite retirees, church groups, businesses, and community members to join together and consistently manage the Re-Store on another weekday so we can serve the general public even better.

 

 

 

New ReStore Hours

The Re-Store is open on most Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on most Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Also, it’s a good idea to call 919.693.5694 and make sure the Re-Store is open.

Learn more about the ReStore here.

Re-Store hires a Re-Store Manager

As of September 1, 2008, Granville County Habitat for Humanity Re-Store hired its first Re-Store Manager. Her name is Barbara Chapman.
Barbara was born and raised in suburban Atlanta, Georgia. In 1993, Barbara, her husband, and her children moved to Oxford, NC. Since then, she has done home repair for a living.
Granville County Habitat for Humanity welcomes Barbara to the Habitat family. Executive Director Mark Prokop is very excited to have Barbara around. “Barbara has done a wonderful job and has
made a huge impact in the short time that she has been the Re-Store Manager.” Barbara is happy to be here and looks forward to many years managing the Re-Store. If you have any questions about the Re-Store, Barbara can be reached via email at granvillerestore@embarqmail.com

The Fall 2008 Belk Charity Day is scheduled for November 15th from 6am-10am. This event is a unique way for organizations to raise money and for Belk to give back to the community. Participating organizations will recieve fliers and tickets (free of charge) for an additional 20%-50% off at all Belk stores. These tickets will be sold for $5 dollars each(100% of proceeds from ticket sales goes directly to organization who sells them) The customer, in return, receives the additional discount on their purchases as well as $5 off their first purchase. Purchasers of the $5.00 tickets can go to any Belk store between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. The closest Belk store is in Henderson, NC but there are stores in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and Burlington, NC.

On April 15, 2008, Granville County Habitat for Humanity welcomed a new Executive Director. His name is Mark Prokop.

Mr. Prokop was born in Silver Spring , Maryland in 1964. He is the 4th of 6 children. He grew up in Darnestown, Maryland. After graduating from Seneca Valley High School in Germantown, MD, Mr. Prokop attended Frostburg State College in Frostburg, MD. He graduated in 1986 with a major in Accounting and minors in both Business and Computer Science. After graduation, he worked as an accountant and also attended Bowie State University in Bowie, MD. There he received a Graduate Certificate in Management Information Systems.

In July 1993, Mr. Prokop moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina where he worked at UNC-Chapel Hill (UNC). In 1995, while working at UNC, he met a woman which turned out to be his future wife, Betty Jo Warner. Betty has been an Oncology nurse at Duke Hospital for 18 years. Mark and Betty have been married for 11 years and they have 2 children, Matthew, age 9, and Luke, age 6. Mr. Prokop and his family currently live in Chapel Hill, NC .

Mr. Prokop and his family attend St. Thomas More Catholic Church which is also located in Chapel Hill. The Prokop family is very active in their church and their community. Every eight weeks, Mr. Prokop donates blood at the American Red Cross. Once a month on Sunday afternoons, Mr. Prokop visits sick patients at UNC Hospitals. Mr. Prokop occasionally picks up food from a local grocery store and delivers it to the State Employees Credit Union (SECU) Family House for their residents to enjoy during their stay. Mr. Prokop also watches the children in the church nursery every Sunday and is a part of St. Thomas More’s Respect Life Committee.

After leaving UNC in 2001, Mr. Prokop accepted an Accounting job at a Durham non-profit. Since then, he has directed two Triangle non-profits before coming to Granville County to direct the local Habitat for Humanity in Oxford.

If you are interested in having Executive Director Mark Prokop speak about Granville County Habitat for Humanity at your group's next meeting, then please contact him at 919.693.5694 or email him at granvillehabitat@embarqmail.com.

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In recognition of World Habitat Day, October 6, 2008, "A Place to Be", Granville County Habitat for Humanity will address the lack of decent housing around the world, including the need for affordable housing in Granville County.

Read the Press Release.

Visit the official World Habitat Day Site.

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As of June 1, 2008, a new family will be moving into a new Granville County Habitat for Humanity home.The Ostrander family is the 8th family to move into a home in Granville County since Habitat started there in 1992. Their new home is in Stem, North Carolina, which is in the southern part of the county.

Read the Press Release.

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Granville County Habitat for Humanity is now on MySpace!

Click here to visit our page and add us as a friend!

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The Re-Store celebrated it's first year open on June 1, 2008.

Thank you for all for helping to make our ReStore a success.

Click here to visit our ReStore.

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Mark Prokop recently met with Keith Howze, Youth Pastor of Bible Baptist Church, to provide information on the work that Granville County Habitat for Humanity provides to the citizens of the county.

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