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The Housing Opportunities
Commission
The agency’s Annual
Meeting is the occasion for the election of new officers. The Commission
will also distribute awards for its Housing Honor Roll and will honor
several community members for their partnership with HOC during the year.
Housing Honor Roll
awardees for 2004 are all past or present members of HOC’s Section 236
housing boards. They are:
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Judge Paul McGuckian
(Leafy House, Inc.)
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Walter Petzold (Banor
Housing, Inc.)
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Avi Halpert (Camp Hill
Square, Inc.)
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Mary M. Corley (Town
Center Apartments, Inc.)
Special Recognition
Awards will be given to:
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Ruth’s Chris Steak House
in Bethesda, Md. For the past seven years, Ruth’s Chris has
donated, prepared and served a gourmet Thanksgiving dinner for the elderly
public housing residents of HOC’s Waverly House in Bethesda.
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Rockville’s Mt. Calvary
Baptist Church, which, for the past 17 years, has operated a holiday food
basket donation program that has provided food for more than 600
lower-income families in our community each year.
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Federal Realty Investment
Trust, for their sponsorship of HOC’s “Back to School Supply Drive.” In
2003, this event helped provide 950 HOC youth with the supplies they needed
to return to school prepared. FRIT has sponsored this event for the past
two years.
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The Original Pancake
House in Bethesda, Md., for their sponsorship of a Christmas Breakfast
for elderly public housing residents of HOC’s Waverly House and residents
of area shelters. The restaurant has hosted this event for the past eight
years.
7 p.m. (Reception in the Atrium Room 6-7 p.m. to precede the Annual Meeting)
The Housing Opportunities
Commission Hearing Room
10400 Detrick Ave.
Kensington, MD
HOC relies upon the help
of the larger community to fulfill its mission of providing safe and decent
affordable housing and housing services to the citizens of Montgomery County. The Annual Meeting is a time to acknowledge
the many partners that contribute to the agency’s success.
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