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Scout
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01-20-2005

Monday, August 15, 2005 - 8:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scout a private message Print Post    
True, but water damage can be fixed without building a house that cost $125,000 for the wood alone.

That's my one problem with the show. Many families could benefit instead of just one on what they spend on these places.

Sillycalimomma
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11-13-2003

Monday, August 15, 2005 - 8:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sillycalimomma a private message Print Post    
I know she wanted to be closer to the "command center" and where she was abducted from too, but I actually couldn't believe that she moved out of the home her daughter knew. They said she was kidnapped in a town that was 30 miles from where they lived at the time. I don't know about how things work where she lives, but where I live you can only keep your phone number if you move within the same town. I would find it so hard to move from the home/phone number my daughter knew. I would always wonder if she had tried to come home or call.

The entire thing was just sad. I watched that movie I Know My First Name Is Steven when it first came out. I was pretty young at the time and I swear it scared me for life. I spent the rest of my childhood/adolesence determined to be a detective when I grew up. I made it all the way to college with that notion and then I sat in on my first Criminal Justice course and I spent two hours crying my eyes out. The instructor showed us the worst of the worst-of children in our area, so that it would really hit home what we were getting involved in. My dd was just a baby at the time and one of the horrific stories involved a four month old. I lost it.

I commend anyone who works as a detective, but more so anyone who works with missing children. You would have to have some pretty tough skin for that job.

Scout
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01-20-2005

Monday, August 15, 2005 - 9:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scout a private message Print Post    
I was thinking that, too, Silly, that most people stay exactly where they are in the hopes that somehow the child will find their way back home.

That movie, "I Know My First Name Is Steven" terrified me, too. I had read the book and then saw the movie when it came out (it was on again this weekend). The fact that he was so close to home all that time (as was Elizabeth Smart) struck me as another reason to stay put.

Did they ever mention why they were so certain it was a stranger and not a local or someone who knew the family?


Texannie
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07-16-2001

Monday, August 15, 2005 - 9:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
She lives in the same town as a friend of mine, I will ask about the husband and the move.

Madelane
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08-20-2001

Monday, August 15, 2005 - 11:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Madelane a private message Print Post    
Will I sound outrageously ridiculous if I whine that no one mentioned the new season was starting last night? I had no idea. I have come to rely on someone posting and warning us that new shows are starting again. I know, I should check my newspaper. I hope they replay this one, although it sounds quite tear-jerking.

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Monday, August 15, 2005 - 12:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
You know, instead of picking apart this show let's be grateful that there are shows that feature people who need help. Yes, sometimes I think their makeovers are way over the top and could be a lot more efficient for the people who benefit from them (do that many people need such HUGE houses - I know I don't but my house could certainly use a makeover), but the main thing is that the majority of these people truly could use a helping hand.

And a new house certainly doesn't make up for the loss of a daughter. My little one started watching this (we had to leave for church) and now wants to watch the end...I plan on using it as a teaching took to keep her from straying (she has a huge independent streak). I can't imagine the agony of losing her. I pray I never will.

Sillycalimomma
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11-13-2003

Monday, August 15, 2005 - 12:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sillycalimomma a private message Print Post    
Well, I for one am grateful that there are people out there willing to do whatever it takes to help someone in need. But this is a television show put out by the network to entertain and make them money and raitings. Therefore, I have no problem putting in my two cents about what they do/don't do or I wish they would do.

Sillycalimomma
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11-13-2003

Monday, August 15, 2005 - 12:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sillycalimomma a private message Print Post    
I hope the tone in my last post didn't come off the wrong way. I should have put a smiley there or something. I can only speak for myself, but I think that I nitpick the design aspect of this show because it is so clear to me that with the ammount of money they throw into one home they could help so many many more families. It is business, an entertainment business. So, I know that although they are doing great things helping the families that they do it is hard for me to be so upbeat about it when there are probably homeless shelters right around the corner from any of these homes where all that money could really help out.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Monday, August 15, 2005 - 12:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Here's what my friend said when I asked her those questions....

They had gone to watch friends children play ball at the Alma ball park. Morgan was 6 at the time. She had been invited to play and was eventually allowed to go play. She was within sight. At the end of the games the other children had left Morgan at her car where she was dumping sand out of her shoes. That was the last she was seen.

My understanding is that police investigators suggested she remain as close to the abduction site as possible so she made the decision to move to Alma.

As far as the father - I don't know. I think Colleen was a single mom at the time of the abduction.

We all around here feel a connection to Colleen because our own kids have played ball in that very ball field. Because our schools are in the same Co-op I know her kdg. teacher and the 1st grade teacher she was to have. As a matter of fact she had a desk ready for Morgan that entire school year. Colleen has spoken to our church ladies' class a couple of times as well as at various local schools during kid-print rallies, and been instumental with certain legislation governing child abduction


Scout
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01-20-2005

Monday, August 15, 2005 - 1:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scout a private message Print Post    
Thanks, Texannie. That explains why she made the move.

That's how I feel, too, Silly. I'm really glad that there are shows out there to promote helping people. It's just that when there are so many homeless people, and so many people who live in absolute squalor - the show could be much further reaching (if it's aims are to truly help people). For the price of that one house, three families could have had a more modest, but still very nice place to live.

Many people involved with the show are doing what they're doing because they want to help people. But I don't think the network has that ambition in mind. They're promoting themselves as helping needy people. And if they want to promote themselves in the light of helping those in need, you'd think they would see that the needs of many might outweigh the needs of a few.
What they spent on the clubhouse and skate ramp would go a long way towards another project.

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Monday, August 15, 2005 - 8:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yankee_in_ca a private message Print Post    
After Hotel Attack, It's On With the Reality Show
Home Makeover Crews Have Troubling Start To Pr. George's Project

By Philip Rucker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 16, 2005; B01



An ABC television crew has swooped into Prince George's County to film an episode of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," for which an army of designers and construction workers will toil round-the-clock for a week to build a dream home for a Capitol Heights woman and her eight children.

They got off to a roaring start yesterday morning, demolishing Veronica Ginyard's dilapidated two-bedroom home to make way for a three-story, six-bedroom house. But even before they started, the crews got a rough reminder of Prince George's crime problems.

The wife of a crew member was beaten with a gun Saturday morning during an armed burglary in the lobby of a Largo hotel where some in the crews were staying. A man demanded and received money from the front desk of Extended Stay America and then beat the woman in the face before leaving the hotel off Central Avenue near the Capital Beltway, Prince George's police said. She was taken to a hospital, where she received a few stitches, police said.

The crew members, who were staying at the hotel and the Hampton Inn next door, packed their bags and are now staying at the more expensive Greenbelt Marriott.

Crime is not new to the two Largo hotels, where police said four burglaries have taken place in the past two years.

"I'm not going to comment on our hotels or any incidents that happen in our hotels," said Linda Wiley, a vice president for the Spartanburg, S.C.-based Extended Stay America chain. "We believe our hotels are safe."

County Executive Jack B. Johnson (D) is working closely with ABC to ensure the crews' safety and is beefing up the police presence at the Marriott and at the construction site, county spokesman John Erzen said.

The show's executive producer, Denise Cramsey, said the crew was saddened but not entirely surprised by the attack. "We did know we were coming into a tricky area," she said. "Frankly, a lot of our homes . . . are not in the best areas."

The Emmy-nominated reality series sends producers across the country in search of families that need a new home. For its first episode in the Washington region, ABC selected the Ginyards, pointing to Veronica Ginyard's struggle as a 44-year-old single mother raising eight children, ages 10 to 17, including two sets of twins.

Ginyard's modest home on the southwest corner of Urn Street and Eden Avenue -- just outside the District line and a few blocks north of Pennsylvania Avenue -- had become hazardous, with exposed wires sticking out of the drywall, mold from constant flooding in the basement and holes in the walls and ceilings. Several of the children had makeshift bedrooms in the attic with no air conditioning.

Ginyard told producers that she recently hired a contractor to renovate parts of the home but that the contractor took her money and left without finishing.

"Nobody should live like that," said Allen West, president of Somerset Homes, the Charles County builder commissioned to oversee construction on the new home.

Filming began yesterday. Crews expected to lay a concrete foundation on the narrow corner lot last night and planned to begin building walls this morning. The home designs and construction plans are being kept secret from the family, which ABC sent to Disney World for a vacation. The Ginyards will return this weekend for the unveiling. ABC has not set an air date for the show.

Eduardo Xol, one of the show's celebrity designers, tried not to disclose any design secrets but said the home would have a clean, modern feel. The designers are still selecting furniture, fabrics and colors, as well as deciding on the exterior look and landscaping, he said.

The crews will shop at Sears, a sponsor of the show, and other area stores for supplies, appliances and furnishings. Storehouse Furniture has donated about 100 pieces worth $80,000 for this home, Storehouse President Caroline Hipple said.

Xol said the designers want to give the Ginyards enough space to live comfortably. The house will be significantly larger and more modern than the modest homes that dot the Capitol Heights neighborhood. "We try to maintain some sort of integrity with what's going on in this neighborhood," he said. "But it's going to be an extreme transformation for them."

The first day of filming drew a crowd of volunteers wearing blue T-shirts and white hard hats who stood in the searing heat to catch a glimpse of the action.

Four women from the Professional Association of Custom Clothiers arrived to help make curtains and bedspreads. They carried a basket of chocolate chip cookies, which quickly became a clue to their real agenda: to meet Ty Pennington, the show's jack-of-all-trades who is known to work shirtless.

"Everybody I've told asks if I'm gonna meet Ty," said Doralee Billings, 47, of Columbia.

"It would be un-American not to love Ty," her friend chimed in. Said a third woman, "Chocolate chip cookies open a lot of doors."

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - 9:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Good lord.

Sillycalimomma
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11-13-2003

Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - 9:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sillycalimomma a private message Print Post    
That's awful. Sounds like this show/crew are hitting some stressful times right now.


---here's my point though.Its obvious from the description of this womans house that she could use some help. However, does she really need $80,000 in furniture alone?
Think of what $80,000 could do to help the homeless in their area or a local womans shelter. I hope that the companies that can afford to contribute such a huge ammount of money essentially for some air time and advertisement on the show also give back to their community when no one is watching.

One thing I have always wondered too with this show (and pimp my ride) is how well their neighbors take to having such extravagant homes across the street. Especially in the high crime neighborhoods. Do they install security cameras and alarms and such so that these families do not now have to worry about being hit by jealous vandals? I also wonder how their new utility bill looks as well!

Okay, there I go picking apart the show again...but again it is a show and these are things I wonder about when I am watching it.

Madelane
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08-20-2001

Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - 6:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Madelane a private message Print Post    
OK, hate to harp on this again but I just checked and there are reruns on for the next two weeks, so where did this new show you guys all watched come from? Did the season start again or was this some kind of special?

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - 6:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
It never said if it was a special or what it was, Madelane. It just said that it was a new 2 hour episode so I was there!

Madelane
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08-20-2001

Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - 7:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Madelane a private message Print Post    
Thanks Mamie. I never watch "live" TV or commercials so I only know shows are starting back up by reading here and in the newspaper. My fault.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - 7:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
It came on when I was watching some game with my husband and I got all excited!

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Tuesday, August 23, 2005 - 10:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
wow! The thing that struck a nerve for me was the Extended Stay - we havee one, maybe 15 minutes from here - there is always an article about crime happening there... well 'always' is exaggerating! Still, more than any other hotel around, wonder why there is that coincedence!!

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 - 5:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yankee_in_ca a private message Print Post    
I was lucky enough to spend a week working on an Extreme Makeover: Home Edition a little while ago. It was a great, and tiring experience.

One thing that really stuck out to me was the INTENSE commitment put in by the home builder (a contracted company who does it for the publicity) and volunteers. The house REALLY is built in a short period of time (in this case, the old house was demolished on a Monday, and the keys were turned over to the totally finished house on a Saturday) -- it's not a trick for TV.

And the home was REALLY well-built. It is NOT shoddy at all. It wasn't my style, but for the quality, I'd have paid my hard-earned money for this house.

It was a great week. We had over 300 people working for FREE, nonstop, 24-hours a day (in shifts), really wanting to do good for a family.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 8:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Yanks can't wait for that ep to show.

Sunrvrose
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08-13-2001

Friday, September 16, 2005 - 8:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunrvrose a private message Print Post    
I'm so excited about the new season of this show. Need to stock up on Kleenex. I usually start crying as soon as it starts and stop a few minutes after it's over.

IMHO, this is the most meaningful show on television. I even started going to Sears again. And I'm really proud of ABC for doing this. Kinda redeems them for Bachelor.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Friday, September 23, 2005 - 7:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
If Ty isn't toned down, I'm not listening -- or watching. He is waaaaay over the top with that shtick.

Luvmom
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10-17-2000

Sunday, September 25, 2005 - 6:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Luvmom a private message Print Post    
Ok, My dd was even in tears for this one.What an amazing family!!

Scout
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01-20-2005

Monday, September 26, 2005 - 6:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scout a private message Print Post    
I was so happy that they were able to give him the new prosthetic leg so that he could finally walk without pain. I'm hoping maybe that same facility could help that other boy as well.
Seems like it should be automatic that our returning servicement be sent directly to the best medical places we have, though.

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Monday, September 26, 2005 - 10:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yankee_in_ca a private message Print Post    
Call me crazy, but I cringed and changed the channel while Ty and the other guy did their pretend "I'm a military paramedic" skit with the sounds of bombs blowing up around them and the scratchy video and Ty's voice screaming. I know why they did it, but it made me uncomfortable.