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Home and Design Source book featuring Advice from the ProsAdvice from an Expert:

Hopkins & Porter's Kai Tong discusses the design-build process in the Fall/Winter 2008 issue of Home & Design Sourcebook. Read More.

HOPKINS & PORTER ROAD CLEAN UP

Hopkins & Porter presents check to Habitat for Humanity

Hopkins & Porter staff Joe Leonard, Sharon Weir, Jimmy Jackson, and Mike Wilkinson after a day of work keeping the roads clean.

(3/7/2008) Hopkins & Porter is part of the MC Adopt-a-road program. We maintain the section of Democracy between 7-Locks & Kentsdale. This is a volunteer commitment with the county to schedule 4 clean ups of your section of the road each year, and to notify them of any major trash violations or dumping. We usually take care of these interim problems ourselves.

Our project expediter Jimmy Jackson proudly treats the road as his own and cleans up messes when he finds them. On the scheduled days we rotate the responsibility for clean up between the office, the Handyman technicians , and the Remodeling Carpenters.

Visit Montgomery County adopt-a-road program to learn more.

POTOMAC DAY RAFFLE A CHARITABLE SUCCESS

Hopkins & Porter presents check to Habitat for Humanity

Left to right: Guy Hopkins Semmes (co-owner of Hopkins & Porter Construction, Inc., Grace Rood (owner of Flaps, recently closed), John Paukstis (Executive Director for Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery County), and Melissa Lankler (Dickerson, MD)

11-26-07 - Last month’s Potomac Day was a success for Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery County, Bob and Grace Rood of Potomac and Melissa Lankler of Dickerson, Maryland. In their annual raffle to raise money for and public awareness of Habitat of Montgomery County, Hopkins & Porter Construction, Inc. of Potomac, Maryland donated 2 free hours of their Handyman Service along with a tool bag. The Roods were the lucky winners. Ms. Lankler won 2 gift certificates, one at Target and the other at Fashion Craft Cleaners . The more than $300 proceeds from the raffle ticket sales were donated to Habitat.

Established in 1982, Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery County (HFH-MC) describes itself as working in partnership with God and Habitat volunteers to build and renovate homes to help families in need realize the dream of home ownership here in Montgomery County, Maryland. Countywide, it is estimated that 1600 families must endure substandard housing, living without even such basics as indoor plumbing. An affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, HFH-MC has constructed 19 homes, all with volunteer help, Currently HfH-MC is focused on the completion of a 24 townhome community in Burtonsville, MD. . This community will be the first of its kind for HfH-MC and mark a new beginning for 24 deserving families. The town home community will consist of 24, 3-level, 3-bedroom town homes and will be built almost entirely by volunteers. The average cost of a Linganore Woods home is approximately $150,000. Construction on this $3.8 million project began in July of 2006 and will continue through 2008. Habitat homeowners must themselves invest 500 hours of their own sweat equity into their own and into others’ homes. Their no-interest mortgage payments are recycled by the Fund for Humanity to build more Habitat houses.

Hopkins & Porter Supports Habitat for Humanity

Hopkins & Porter presents check to Habitat for Humanity

Guy Semmes presents a check to to John Paukstis, Executive Director of HfH-MD, during the opening ceremonies of the Big Train Baseball

(June 2, 2007) Hopkins & Porter, with the help of its associates, sub-contractor, and suppliers along with the Rotary Club of Potomac, made a contribution to Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery County (HFH-MC). On Saturday evening, June 2, Guy Hopkins Semmes, company with Greg Wood of Custom Carpentry and Renovation and Nancy Nuell President of the Rotary Club of Potomac presented a check for $8,000 to John Paukstis, Executive Director of HfH-MD, during the opening ceremonies of the Big Train Baseball game at Shirley Povich Field in Cabin John Park, Rockville, Maryland.

The Bethesda Big Train, a college summer wooden-bat team that was created in 1999 and competes in the Cal Ripken, Sr.Information can be found at bigtrain.org. In previous years, Hopkins & Porter Construction has volunteered for Big Train in designing, building, and maintaining the hand-operated score board, bat and helmet storage, the dugout benches, and more. In 2007 they built an on-site radio and TV studio to broadcast the Big Train games via internet and cable.

Habitat for Humanity seeks to reduce substandard housing by providing a hand-up rather than a handout to help families to realize the dream of home ownership. An affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, HFH-MC has finished 19 houses, all with volunteer help. Their newest project is building 24 town homes in Burtonsville, Maryland.

Hopkins & Porter Featured in Washington Spaces Magazine

A carousel of inside-outside homes at Merry-Go-Round Farm in Potomac built by Hopkins & Porter and designed by Rill & Decker Architects are featured in a recent issue of Washington Spaces Magazine.

Guy Semmes Honored by Rotary Club

Guy Hopkins Semmes, CR, a founder and owner of Hopkins & Porter, receives the Sam Eammelli "Service Above Self" award at the Rotary Club of Potomac's Charter Night in July 2006. This award is not given annually as other awards but only when deemed appropriate by the Club President. It is intended to honor a member who has given generously of his/her time and talents over a period of time supporting a project or projects of great value to Rotary. The award reads, "May it be know that Guy H. Semmes is awarded this honor by the Rotary Club of Potomac for devoted and unselfish "SERVICE ABOVE SELF" to this club and to the community. The last time this award was given was in 2002.