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MONTH IN CARTERS HONOR. AND AS YOU JUST HEARD CHRIS SAY, JIMMY AND ROSALYNN CARTER SPENT A LOT OF TIME BUILDING HOUSES WITH HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, INCLUDING RIGHT HERE IN KANSAS CITY, KMBC NINE S ANDY ALCOCK REPORTS. THE IMPACT FROM THE COUPLES WORK IS BEING FELT RIGHT NOW. IT WAS A FAMILIAR SIGHT IN COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND THE WORLD. PRESIDENT AND MRS. CARTER ON THE JOB BUILDING HOMES FOR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, EVEN AT A RIPE OLD AGE IN HIS 90S, HE WAS STILL COMING OUT AND STILL VOLUNTEERING AND STILL BUILDING HOUSES. BEGINNING IN 1984 THROUGH 2019, THE COUPLE HOSTED AND TOOK PART IN AN ANNUAL HABITAT WORK PROJECT AT LOCATIONS ALL OVER THE WORLD. PRESIDENT AND MRS. CARTER CAME TO KANSAS CITY IN 1986 TO CELEBRATE THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL, THE KANSAS CITY CHAPTER WAS JUST SEVEN YEARS OLD AT THAT TIME. WHEN PRESIDENT CARTER CAME TO TOWN, REBECCA DALI SAID THAT VISIT PROVIDED LOCAL MOMENTUM TO HABITAT KANSAS CITY, WHICH IS THRIVING TO THIS DAY. HIS SPIRIT WAS SO FULL AND HIS GENEROSITY WAS SO, SO GREAT THAT HE JUST BROUGHT PEOPLE ALONG WITH HIM. YOU COULD FEEL WHAT HE FELT. YOU COULD REALLY SEE HIS PASSION IN ACTION. IN ADDITION TO THIS SIGN ON THURSDAY, THERES GOING TO BE A DOOR FRAME OUTSIDE HERE WHERE PEOPLE CAN EXPRESS THEIR THOUGHTS ABOUT PRESIDENT CARTER. A DOOR FRAME WAS CHOSEN BECAUSE HE OPENED SO MANY DOORS FOR SO MANY PEOPLE AT HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, KANSAS CITY, ANDY ALCOCK, KMBC, NINE NEWS. THE BANNER AND DOOR FRAME WILL GO UP AT HABITATS HEADQUARTERS ON EAST LINWOOD. THE FIVE METRO RESTORE LOCATIONS ALSO PLAN TO HAVE DOO