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Metoo
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02-22-2005

Monday, February 12, 2007 - 6:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Metoo a private message Print Post    
I went into his website to check on his recovery (he's doing great) and he said the triplets are due in June.

Bluejaxrock
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04-23-2004

Monday, February 12, 2007 - 8:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bluejaxrock a private message Print Post    
Arrgh! I've been waiting for this episode because a friend's son is part of the local electrician companies and worked on the house. I missed it! Was channel-surfing last night, didn't see it (totally forgot it was the night for it) and decided there was nothing on and got on the PC instead. lol
I'm sure I'll see a rerun.
There was lots of talk today at work as to what company built the original house. I understand it was a pretty shabby job, to say the least. Was it Dominion?

Native_texan
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08-24-2004

Monday, February 12, 2007 - 9:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Native_texan a private message Print Post    
The problem with the house was that it was built on top of a pre-existing slab and was causing serious shifting.

Kep421
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08-11-2001

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 1:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kep421 a private message Print Post    
I don't doubt that for a moment NT... but those walls seemed very flimsy to me...as well as the stairs...and there was no insulation....

Its a shame they got "took" like that... I absolultely LOVED the new house...

I knew the dad wouldn't cry... until the Marines showed up....I saw that coming a mile away...

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, March 09, 2007 - 3:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
My husband actually sat and watched this with me last Sunday. After a bit of watching, he says "now I know why you are always crying when you watch this show." It looks like a really big tear-jerker next week.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Saturday, March 10, 2007 - 5:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
this is kind of fun. i was listening to one of our morning pop radio shows yesterday and one of the dj's was talking about her sister. she is a single mother of 4 boys in Philadelphia. She bought a house that ended up being majorly damaged by termites and it was some kind of huge fraud by the realtor and the seller. she had to move out of the house and was living basically in her parent's dining room on futons with her boys. the DJ sister and her other sister decided to write all the home improvement shows telling the story to see if they could get help for the sister.
well, EM called!!! the dj told how they were woken up Thursday am by Ty's bullhorn. The sister told her she was able to spend a little time with him and that he is so sweet and such a gentleman. The sister asked one of the producers if he was taken! LOL (he is)
the family was sent to Disneyworld. Put up in a 2 bedroom suite at the Yacht Club. ALL, absolutely everything paid for, down to souveniers. A driver picks them up and takes them right to the door of the park where they are met by an escort. no standing in lines or anything!!!
heck, i would forgo my house being fixed up just for that! LOL

their original house was about 1700 square feet and worth $170 (well, the sales price). the new home will be at least double and worth almost a million.
(i have always wondered about security for these houses..seems like they would just be sitting ducks for burglars).

but it was so much fun listening to the dj sister talk about it.

here's the article from the PA paper
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/111-03082007-1310767.html

the DJ sister is writing about it on her blog
http://www.khmx.com/pages/mixmornings.html

Imbewitched
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03-08-2002

Sunday, March 11, 2007 - 5:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Imbewitched a private message Print Post    
Oh my goodness, the show has barely started and I'm crying like a baby already.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, March 12, 2007 - 7:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
OMG! I sobbed from the beginning to the end. The mother was an incredibly strong and amazing woman.

Sheilaree
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07-19-2002

Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 3:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sheilaree a private message Print Post    
Extreme Makeover is in my area, they are in Colonie, NY, and it Paul, Edargdo, Ty, 2 woman, and Michael on this and I don't know the family, and it making the area crazy because they are in the area. It is going to be 2 hour special on May 20. all the news station are going crazy over this.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, October 22, 2007 - 12:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I haven't seen Preston yet this season. I hope he's not gone.

Rosie
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11-12-2003

Monday, October 29, 2007 - 6:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
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Kep421
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08-11-2001

Monday, November 19, 2007 - 12:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kep421 a private message Print Post    
The 100th show is next Sunday 11/25 and they will be having 8 previous families helping out on this project.

I still love this show. It continues to renew my faith in human kind... The media is chock full of the horrible awful things we do to each other...it really is nice to watch this show and see proof of good things...

This show ROCKS...

Tess
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04-13-2001

Monday, November 19, 2007 - 2:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tess a private message Print Post    
We're excited to watch on Sunday, Kep. It takes place in a suburb just west of us and the family's story is just heart-wrenching. We're very glad that the producers chose this family.

It will be lovely to see the previous families and check on how they are doing today.

Puppy21969
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10-04-2005

Monday, November 19, 2007 - 9:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Puppy21969 a private message Print Post    
I am excited too! The kids go to school where my sister in law teaches. Her sister is a graphic designer and worked on this project -- she has had to keep all of this secret for so long!!

Marameko
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07-15-2002

Friday, November 30, 2007 - 9:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marameko a private message Print Post    
Currently Ty and the crew are in Farmont WV where they are replacing a 600 sq ft home for a blended family of 7. The home will be demolished tomorrow 12/01/07, the family has been whisked off to Disney world.
Due to the location of the home this is supposedly the most challenging home built on this show.
Evidently the crew is staying at a local swanky hotel here in Morgantown which is close to Fairmont < for trivia buffs, Fairmont is the hometown of gold medalist Mary Lou Retton >. I wil look for Ty as I drive past the Waterfront Hotel this weekend. Chances are that the Extreme Home crew will be mentioned on tv tomorrow during the football game when WVU plays Pitt.
I undersatand you cannot get anywwhere near the construction site.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Friday, November 30, 2007 - 7:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Why is it the "most challenging"? Inquiring minds want to know. :-)

Bunkynut
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07-07-2004

Sunday, December 09, 2007 - 7:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bunkynut a private message Print Post    
I found this little spoiler/overview:

The Turner Family

Marameko
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07-15-2002

Monday, December 10, 2007 - 6:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marameko a private message Print Post    
The Turner's home is located at the top of a steep road. According to the local paper the builder's got permission for more land for the new home that owned by a relative of Mr.Turner.
WV is small enough that if I don't know you I will know someone who does and I understand that they are a fine family.
Even Governor Joe Manchin who hails from the same area,came by the building site.
It was delightful to hear the move that bus chant even on the radio. What a wonderful thing to happen so close to Christmas.
It was also nice to hear that the Turner's will not be saddled with a huge tax bill due to the new home. Mrs.Turner was also given tuition and books for college classes at Fairmont State University.

Metoo
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02-22-2005

Monday, December 10, 2007 - 5:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Metoo a private message Print Post    
Marameko, Do we know when this episode will air?

Hypermom
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08-13-2001

Wednesday, January 02, 2008 - 12:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hypermom a private message Print Post    
http://www.newstin.com/sim/us/36691856/en-009-000733333

PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Eight-year-old Jenessa Boey Byers, who lobbied Congress for more money to fight children's cancer, has died in Oregon.

Byers, a Corvallis girl featured on ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," died Friday, at a hospital in Portland of complications of pneumonia, her family's pastor, Russ Stiverson, told The Oregonian.

Boey, who had rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare form of childhood cancer, made headlines last summer when the TV show "Extreme Makeover" built her family a new home in Corvallis.

Boey lobbied Congress to pass a Conquer Childhood Cancer Act to increase funding for cancer research and Oregon lawmakers are working on a similar bill now, Stiverson said, calling Byers "wise beyond her years."

"Her spirit just caught fire, it was just very contagious," Stiverson said.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, February 18, 2008 - 12:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
I wonder if anyone else watched the show tonight..

They redid a house for a family where the oldest son was born with various problems including no eyes and deformed legs/hands. His dad started him on music as a very young kid and even with wrists that don't straighten out, he plays the piano wonderfully, he sings, he writes songs, plays the horn and with his dad pushing his wheelchair he is in the college marching band.

So they redid the field for the university so the band has a better place to practice, redid the whole house so the parents and other sons got great rooms and gave the young mad his own apartment with a kitchen he can use from his wheelchair, everything accessible in the bathroom, and a motorized wheelchair, all terrain.

He was so excited because before this his parents had to lift him in and out of the tub, now he has a rollin shower, etc.

Really good and feel good episode. And what a talent. Ty also had a computer and a complete recording setup put in so he can write his music or sing or play it and have it printed out in music or in braille.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, February 18, 2008 - 9:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
It really was a feel-good episode.

Bombaycat
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07-21-2007

Monday, February 18, 2008 - 9:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bombaycat a private message Print Post    
Loved this episode. What a wonderful family. The icing on the cake would be Patrick Henry Hughes getting a recording contract.

Pamplemousse
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09-28-2003

Monday, February 18, 2008 - 3:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamplemousse a private message Print Post    
it was a great episode. have to laugh DH & I went to breakfast & the ladies in the next booth were talking about it too...that young man has such a great attitude

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, February 18, 2008 - 5:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Yeah he is amazing and hopefully someone will set him up, if not with a contract, then on myspace where he may just get the attention and get a contract.

And one of the brothers can provide the photographs, too. And the other, the music :-) or at least backup guitar or drums. This honestly was a great set of rooms.