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Walter Simpkins recognized during National Homeownership Month | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 SCHENECTADY – Habitat for Humanity of Schenectady County used money from the city’s HOMES initiative to complete a build at 323 Schenectady St. in 2016. But a woman’s murder and other neighborhood concerns on that street’s 500 block made it a difficult sell, according to the agency’s executive director, Madelyn Thorne. The lack of interest made Thorne try something outside the box. Thorne said she recruited a particular individual, Community Fathers Executive Director Walter Simpkins, to apply. Simpkins’ eventual purchase of the house was celebrated to fanfare at City Hall Tuesday as part of National Homeownership Month. ....
When he found his biological mother, he explains that the experience “started to shed light and destroy my mythos.” “For the first year of knowing her, my [birth] mom… visited me in Detroit and kind of gave me a tour of my life – where I was conceived, where I was born, where she found out she was pregnant. It was amazing… and very emotional.” He concluded by saying, “It’s a long, very personal story, but, you know, it’s been a really wonderful, revelatory story.” When was Keegan-Michael Key adopted? He was adopted at a young age by a couple from Detroit, Michael Key and Patricia Walsh, who were both social workers. ....