Extreme Makeover Home Edition Comes to Sandpoint
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is in Sandpoint. Everyone is in a tizzy about it. The family is very deserving. The mother died about 18 months ago, leaving twin third graders behind. Her brother stepped in to raise the kids. They’ve been living in a berm house (pretty much a basement with a roof on it) just outside of town. Now they get a brand new 3,000 square foot house (twice the size of MY house!) Here’s a link to the article about it:
http://www.bonnercountydailybee.com/articles/2005/11/15/news/news01.txt.
Here’s what the Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce website has to say:
Sandpoint welcomes Extreme Makeover: Home Edition to town!
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, the popular ABC show that turns a run-down house into a fabulous home for a deserving family, has chosen a Sandpoint, Idaho family, the Heberts at 3550 Baldy Mountain Road in Sandpoint.
Eric, Kyler and Keeley Hebert got the surprise knock on the door on Saturday, Nov. 12, beginning the one-week clock to build the family a new home.
The story: Eric Hebert is raising his niece and nephew, twins Kyler and Keeley, whose mother, Francine Hebert, died in April 2004. They have been living in an underground “berm house,” basically a daylight basement with a roof for the past 19 months that often felt more like a dungeon. See more on the local family picked for the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in this Daily Bee story or the News Release dated November 12. A local contractor, Skip Pucci, helped gather local volunteers from the construction industry to join Sullivan Homes of Spokane in building the home. Learn more about the amazing volunteer effort in this Daily Bee story
You can volunteer! Want to help make a dream come true for the Hebert family? It’s a massive undertaking to build a custom home in only a week and volunteers are still being recruited for everything from labor on the work site to helping feed the crews. Click for the Selkirk Association of Realtors website, with detailed volunteer information.
Spectators are invited to come join the fun and excitement. Watch the process beginning Monday, Nov. 14 through Saturday, Nov. 19, when the family comes home. Spectators may not drive to the site, but are invited to ride a shuttle anytime from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Transportation is provided from the old Louisiana-Pacific mill site at Larch and Boyer.
Please note: When the viewing area is full, shuttles will stop running to the site until enough people have left to resume the shuttle. Please be patient and do not try to access the site on your own. Roads will be blocked, and security will be in place.
The incredible timeline:
• Saturday, November 12: “Surprise Door Knock.” The Extreme Makeover: Home Edition crew led by Ty Pennington, team leader and carpenter, arrives and surprises the Hebert family at their home on Baldy Mountain Road. The family leaves for vacation in the Bahamas, and the construction work begins.
• Monday, November 14 to Saturday, November, 19: Public is invited to watch from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. as crews work around the clock to build a 3,000-square-foot home in time for the family’s return. Demolition is on Monday, beginning five intense days of work.
• Saturday, November 19: The Hebert family returns to a crowd of friends, family, neighbors and well-wishers gathered to watch the final reveal marked by Ty Pennington’s command, “Driver, move that bus!”
The lead builder is Sullivan Homes of Spokane. Check the Sullivan Homes website for daily progress reports.
More local news coverage: Check this story from KXLY Channel 4: Sandpoint, Idaho family to receive “Extreme Makeover.” Click for story.
So, this is a big deal for Sandpoint. It will be interesting to see the show when it airs in 2006.
