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    Messages penned on art installation remembering President Carter’s housing legacy
    • January 16, 2025

    President Jimmy Carter was a tireless volunteer for Habitat for Humanity, helping the nonprofit open the door to affordable housing for people around the world, including hundreds in Orange County.

    In the wake of his recent death at age 100, the community can take up markers to pen their appreciation on another door, the Jimmy Carter Memorial Door, a temporary art installation at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana.

    “This was a man who rolled up his sleeves and got in there and did the work,” said Michael Valentine, Habitat for Humanity of Orange County president. “It’s a way for us to remember him and write notes of remembrance and appreciation.”

    Carter, and his wife, Rosalynn, volunteered with Habit for Humanity for more than 30 years, even picking up tools to help build Orange County’s first project, Carino Vista, a community of 48 condos in Rancho Santa Margarita, in 1990.

    To date, 239 homes have been built in Orange County with another 84 in various stages of development.

    The installation will be on display at the Bowers Museum through Friday, Jan. 17.

    Then officials will look for a new location so more people will have access to write a note.

    “The man gave and gave and gave,” said Santa Ana Mayor Valerie Amezcua, adding her family’s appreciation of Carter’s generosity. “Orange County is grateful to him. We will not forget.”

     Orange County Register 

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