Anne Boone-Simanski: Gala builds on a good thing

You don?t have to drive far around Baltimore City to find boarded-up homes and even entire neighborhoods, where once-proud, blue-collar houses rest in decay. Luckily, both for this city and for many of its citizens, there exists the Chesapeake Habitat for Humanity organization.

According to its Web site, CHFH works in city neighborhoods rehabilitating vacant houses to provide homeownership opportunities to low-income families. It?s a noble cause that takes a lot of work, and recently the group ? as a way to raise funds and community awareness ? hosted its annual Habitat Harvest.