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Extreme Makeover: Home Edition looking for home in Sweetwater |
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Written by Staff Reports
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Monday, 16 November 2009 |
Sweetwater Mayor Greg Wortham announces that ABC-TV’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” is considering coming to Sweetwater to provide an extreme home makeover for a deserving local family.
“Churches, students, civic clubs, and others are invited to nominate deserving families for this dramatic opportunity,” Mayor Wortham said. “Families can be nominated by themselves or others, and there are definitely deserving families here. We should all work to make sure that someone in Sweetwater gets this unique opportunity.”
Nominations should be submitted by Dec. 1, and preferably by Thanksgiving. There is no guarantee that “Extreme Makeover” will come to Sweetwater. Their review of submitted nominations will decide whether they help a local family.
“We need to nominate as many deserving families as are identified, so that we can meet the TV show’s objectives.”
Nominations can be submitted directly to ABC at
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or via the Mayor’s office at 117 East Third Street. Nomination forms are available at the Mayor’s office, and will also be distributed via other Sweetwater institutions, as well.
Do you know a family whose home deserves an Extreme Makeover? If so, the producers of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition want to hear from you.
“We are looking for the deserving people and inspiring families that America can relate to,” says Supervising Producer Rebecca Shumsky. The Extreme Makeover: Home Edition producers are looking for families whose homes desperately need to be rebuilt.
“We really want to help families whose homes present major problems for the family, those big issues that affect the family's quality of life on a daily basis. We want to find deserving people who just don't have the resources, ability, or time to fix those serious issues without our help,” Shumsky said.
To be eligible, a family must own their own single family home and be able to show producers how a makeover will make a huge difference in their lives. Interested families should e-mail a short description of their family story to:
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. Nominations may be submitted by the family or by a member of their community. Each nomination must include the names and ages of every member of the household along with a description of the major challenges within the home Anyone submitting a nomination should be sure to explain why the nominated family is deserving, heroic, and/or a great role model for their community. If possible, include a recent photo of the family. All nominations must include a contact phone number.
The deadline for nominations December 1st, 2009. Don’t delay! For more information on how to apply please visit our website. For more information on how to apply please visit the “Extreme Makeover” our website at: http://abc.go.com/primetime/xtremehome/index?pn=apply
Each episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is self-contained and features a race against time to complete a project that would ordinarily take at least four months, involving a team of designers, contractors and several hundred workers who have just seven days to totally rebuild an entire property: every single room of the house, plus the exterior and landscaping.
The lives of the lucky families are forever changed when they learn that they have been selected to have their home walls moved, their floors replaced and even their façades radically changed. The result should be a decorator’s delight… if it can be done in time.
Each episode begins with team leader Ty Pennington’s now-famous “Good morning!” wake-up call, when he and his design team surprise the unsuspecting family with news that their home has been chosen to receive a makeover. Viewers not only witness the unbelievable transformation of the house, but during the final and emotional reveal, they see how the home makeover has impacted the lives of the deserving families.
The design team includes team leader Ty Pennington, with designers Paul DiMeo, Paige Hemmis, Michael Moloney, Ed Sanders, Tracy Hutson, Eduardo Xol and John Littlefield. New designers for this season will be Rib Hillis and Didi Ayer.
About ABC-TV’s
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, which has won back-to-back Emmy Awards as Best Reality Program (non-competitive), is in its 6th season on ABC. The program is produced by Endemol USA, a division of Endemol Holding. Anthony Dominici is the executive producer; and David Goldberg is the president of Endemol USA. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 19 November 2009 )
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