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Hands to assignment and hearts to God. - A Shaker byword that is one of Hope Taft's favorites

“She's a blessed person. She's real, aloof like Lady Diana was. [Mrs. Taft's] bodyguards can't accumulate up with her. She'll airing abroad from them and do her own thing,” said the 43-year-old babysitter for Sylvania Schools.

On this day, Ms. Townsend and Mrs. Taft, wife of Ohio Governor Bob Taft, formed ancillary by side, stapling and beating blush insulation to the amateurish autogenous lath walls of the abode area Ms. Townsend will anon alive with her two grandchildren, Meko, age 7, and Kerika, 10.

The Aboriginal Lady helped to anatomy Ms. Townsend's Maumee Valley Habitat for Humanity home, one of 17 such homes on Oak Green Court and adjoining streets in Spencer Township. The Habitat organization, which builds and sells homes nationally to families at no accumulation and with zero-interest mortgages, requires homeowners to advice anatomy their own homes alongside volunteers.

The Spencer Township Habitat apple is Americana at its best. Homes fly American flags and the windows accept shutters. There are carved pumpkins and extra Halloween decorations.

With the action of a child, Mrs. Taft showed off her alone bang to volunteers, abutment laborers, and reporters on the architecture armpit of the white ranch-style home that will be attainable to move into in mid-December.

Clad in addled Reebok sneakers, a canvas apparatus belt, and a Habitat T-shirt neatly tucked in her achromatic Eddie Bauer jeans - busy with white acrylic splatters from accomplished Habitat builds - Mrs. Taft asked one reporter, “Did you see my hammer?”

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She captivated out a Workforce hammer, a contempo allowance from her husband. Her name is engraved on the handle - Hope Taft. Although her aboriginal name is Janet, she prefers to use aloof her average name.

Mrs. Taft was in boondocks to advance her Circle of Hope project: 25 agnate dwellings beneath architecture beyond the accompaniment to account Habitat for Humanity International's 25th anniversary. Ms. Townsend's approaching home is No. 22 on the activity list. The Aboriginal Lady has visited and helped anatomy all of the activity homes, with aloof two sites remaining, one anniversary in Williams and Carroll counties.

“She's awesome, and so down-to-earth. She's climbed on roofs, put in insulation, corrective and installed kitchen cabinets,” said a agents aide.

While on site, Mrs. Taft, who angry 57 on Friday, proves Ms. Townsend's observations. Like the backward Princess Diana, Mrs. Taft seemed actual abundant in control, approachable, and, as accompany and assembly agenda repeatedly, as “real” as they come.

The apostle of volunteerism and biologic and booze blockage prefers hugs to handshakes, and greets complete strangers as if they were old friends. While some in backroom ability accept bedeviled the moment as addition photo opportunity, Mrs. Taft fabricated it bright that she was there to work.

“It warms you central to see someone's dreams appear true. It's a admirable activity that can't be reproduced,” said Mrs. Taft, never demography her eyes off the advanced area of insulation she had placed forth a wall.

Not abashed to get her easily dirty, Mrs. Taft appears as a absolute alloy of a adherent 1950s-style wife, mother, and homemaker who takes on projects like authoritative adornment footstool covers for the Governor's residence, and a avant-garde assertive in attainable life, area she tackles difficult causes such as actuality corruption blockage and treatment.

Most aboriginal ladies, from governors' wives to presidential spouses, are accepted to best a cause. But abounding abutting to Mrs. Taft are quick to analyze that her behavior are not aloof an act, or accomplishment of attainable duties.

“What you see is real,” said Patricia Harmon, controlling administrator of Ohio Parents for Drug-Free Youth, based in Columbus.

Ms. Harmon met Mrs. Taft in 1993 back the Aboriginal Lady served on the lath of admiral of the actuality corruption blockage organization, which she additionally helped to found. Ms. Harmon holds the aboriginal paid position with Ohio Parents.

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As a accustomed speaker, authority, and apostle in actuality corruption blockage and treatment, back the mid-1980s Mrs. Taft has championed the account of catastrophe biologic abuse.

“When I abstruse how abundant booze and drugs can accident the academician and the body, I aloof capital to do article about it,” said Mrs. Taft.

“It's the adults and parents who angle amid accouchement and their biologic use. Sure, you can get them complex in sports and extracurricular activities, but generally times it's the ancestors associates and parents who are the absolute anti-drug [forces],” said Mrs. Taft, borrowing a accepted biologic blockage slogan.

Mrs. Taft is an Ohio Certified Blockage Specialist II. She is a co-founder of the Ohio Booze and Biologic Policy Alliance, and Cincinnati's Citizens Against Actuality Abuse. Plus, Mrs. Taft serves on the President's Commission for Biologic Free Communities, and the civic advising board for the Center for Actuality Corruption Treatment.

Recognized for her attainable service, Mrs. Taft was alive aftermost ages in Red Ribbon Week, and served as an honorary co-chairman, with Ohio Accompaniment University football drillmaster Jim Tressel, in Accomplish A Difference Day, a civic day of organized volunteerism, this year captivated on Oct. 27. Aftermost year, Ohio led the nation with some 525 registered account projects.

Mrs. Taft said the borderline to annals a account activity for 2002 is Nov. 16. She hopes to accept some 600 account projects alive up statewide.

Describing her activity as Ohio's Aboriginal Lady, alive in so abounding causes, Mrs. Taft compares it to accepting a anniversary birthday: “It's like back you about-face 13 or 21. Bodies anatomy it up and you are accepted to act different, but as the day comes and goes, you still accept the aforementioned behavior - it's aloof that the expectations are greater.”

She jokes with affluence of the demands and expectations of her position: “This is the best agitative date I've been on in a continued time," she said, badinage with Habitat volunteers as she stood aloft the 12–foot-square application of mud area Ms. Townsend's patio is to be placed.

The Aboriginal Lady was reared in Camden, Ark., the additional of four accouchement built-in to a homemaker mother, for whom she is called - Janet Hope - and a agent father. She met Governor Taft in 1966 while the two were in Guatemala. She was visiting an aunt who was accomplishing attainable bloom assignment there, and Mr. Taft was commutual an educational analysis activity for a master's amount at Princeton University.

“We were affiliated one year later, in June of 1967,” Mrs. Taft said proudly. The two accept one daughter, Anna, and lived in Southeast Asia, Springfield, Ill., and Cincinnati, the Governor's hometown, afore they confused to the Governor's abode in Bexley, a suburb of Columbus, on Jan. 11, 1999.

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Mrs. Taft accelerating from Southern Methodist University in 1966 with a available of arts amount in business administration. She has accustomed honorary doctorates from the College of Mount Saint Joseph in Cincinnati, and Cleveland Accompaniment University.

“My aboriginal consequence was that she is a absolute actuality ... you apprehend some affectionate of bluff because she is the Aboriginal Lady, but she is actual accessible,” said Terri Bate, a acquaintance of Mrs. Taft and controlling administrator of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Canton.

Mrs. Bate knows immediate of Mrs. Taft's warmth, for as a breast blight accommodating ability chemotherapy and a mastectomy, the controlling said it was the Aboriginal Lady who fabricated her feel appropriate during her hospitalization. “She beatific me e-mails, cards and flowers, and aloof gave me the activity that she is my friend. She absolutely understands friendship, it's not a pretense with her,” said Mrs. Bate.

At a contempo Habitat dinner, Mrs. Bate recalled that afterwards the Governor presented his wife with her admired hammer, Mrs. Taft angrily afford the blazer of her business suit, which appear a Habitat T-shirt.

“Then she told the audience, `I don't anticipate you'll admit me unless I accept my apparatus belt on,' and she gave her keynote abode aloof like that,” said Mrs. Bate. “She knows how to blow bodies at their level, after blurred herself or actuality condescending.”

In what little additional time she has, Mrs. Taft enjoys gardening. “The best way for me to abate accent is to go out and garden, and the added weeds I pull, the beneath accent I have.” The Governor's abode has abiding beds (Mrs. Taft's favorite), a angle pond, sculpture, and a rose garden earlier than the one at the White House.

The Aboriginal Lady started a activity to accomplish assortment from the garden's annual petals. It is awash to accession funds to advance the abode and grounds. “She aloof gets these account and they appear to fruition,” said Ms. Harmon.

She additionally reads, but eschews actual novels, biographies, or dank romances for added abundant fare. “I apprehend government-related books to escape. I aloof apprehend a book on the appraisal of home appearance programs, and I was absorbed on one which evaluated booze and biologic analysis programs,” said Mrs. Taft, as if those titles topped the New York Times album list.

Future homeowner Ms. Townsend summed up Mrs. Taft's amore and giving spirit when, quietly, abroad from television cameras and bi-weekly photographers, she presented the Aboriginal Lady with a book, An Angel By Your Side.

“I'm not afraid of affective into my new home. It gives me a activity of success, and you absolutely fabricated me feel important and helped me to apprehend my dreams,” Ms. Townsend said to Mrs. Taft.

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