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Santa Cruz County Bank Employees Volunteer at Habitat Site
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n Oct. 30, Santa Cruz County Bank employees volunteered at Habitat for Humanity Monterey Bay’s Rodeo Creek Court affordable housing development in Live Oak, helping build a home with a local family who will live there when the project is complete. Bank volunteers Krista Snelling, Mary Anne Carson, Doug Fischer, Marshall Delk, Sue Chandler, Shawn Lipman, John Mizell, Penny Leonard, Joshua Morris, Chris Benkert, and Lisa Krigsman worked under the direction of construction foremen Keaton Port Gaarn and Dylan Childs, and construction laborer Sal Dibiasi. “We were so thrilled to be on-site for this Habitat Build Day,” said Snelling, who became president and CEO of Santa Cruz County Bank in March. “It’s a volunteer opportunity that our team always looks forward to,” she added.
“As a community bank we’re committed to building relationships. On Saturday we took the building part more literally. We’re so grateful for our partnership with Habitat Monterey Bay and for their dedication to housing families in our county.” Habitat’s project in the Live Oak neighborhood of Santa Cruz County includes 11 homes built as five two-story duplexes and one ADA-accessible singlestory home. A pair of local families have moved into the first two completed houses and Habitat has chosen the applicants for the next three homes, which are under construction. The application process is now open for the next six homes on Rodeo Creek Court. To apply, see https://www.habitat. org/housing-help/apply n
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Santa Cruz County Bank volunteer team: BACK ROW (from left): Krista Snelling, Penny Leonard, Sue Chandler, Doug Fischer, Mark Chandler, Edmund Snelling, and Joshua Morris FRONT ROW (from left): Marshall Delk, John Mizell, Chris Benkert, Shawn Lipman, Mary Anne Carson and Lisa Krigsman.
