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Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Wraps Up in NW IllinoisAn estimated 6,000 people showed up to welcome Stott family home
It wasn't your typical vacation for the Stott family. They left home Thursday, Sept. 10 for a trip to San Francisco, courtesy of and accompanied by Disney Vacation Club in San Francisco. The family wouldn't have any contact with anyone back home no quick calls to check on how the horses were doing, no text messages to or from the kids' friends. But oh, it was worth it. When the Stotts came home, it was to an amazingly silent crowd of thousands, waiting for a director's OK to erupt into cheers. Behind the fabled Extreme Makeover: Home Edition bus waited a beautiful new home for the family of 5. "It was so quiet!" Kaila said. "I can't believe they got so many people to be so quiet" "It was amazing," Joey said. "We took our blindfolds off, and it was just a sea of smiling faces and a huge wave of love." With a huge cheer from the crowd, the bus pulled away, revealing the Stotts' new 3,000 square foot home. A gently curving sidewalk led up the lush green front yard to their new white house with yellow shutters and a bright yellow door. "It is the most beautiful home " Joey said. "When the bus first pulled away, it looked like a dollhouse. This went way beyond what Philip and I ever talked about beyond our wildest dreams!" Philip is excited about the home's many green qualities. "It's surreal. The geothermal heating and cooling and wind energy will run our heat pump and all of our appliances, which are Energy Star compliant. The craftsmanship and quality of what our community has put together is just amazing."
More than 3,000 volunteers both professional tradespeople and everyday people worked together to build the house in 106 hours for ABC's hit reality show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. The effort was led by Rick Hasken, co-owner with his wife, Laurie, of Hasken Construction. Primary partners for the project included Wayne Fischer, Fischer Excavating; Jack Gastel, Lumber-Jack Builders LLC; Roger Burkholder, Burkholder and Sons Inc.; Tony Burkholder, Real Design Concrete; Adam Holder, Fehr-Graham & Associates; Dean and Robby Rood, R Squared Components; Chris Heal, Blackhawk Lumber Inc.; Cory Siegner, Cory's Landscaping; Jeff Wagner, Jansen Heating and Air Conditioning; Marilyn Smit and Joe Vaske, M45 Marketing Services. "There are those who say that the spirit of community is a thing of the past," Rick Hasken said. "I'm proud to say that's certainly not true in northwest Illinois." The amazing experience took just a week from Ty Pennington knocking on the Stotts's old door on Sept. 9 to opening the door to their new home Sept. 16. The actual building of the house took only 106 hours. The Extreme Makeover: Home Edition episode filmed last week will air in December 2009 or January 2010, according to ABC. The Stott Family of rural Lena, Illinois and their children, Kaila, 18, Jonathon, 16, and Michael, 15 were chosen to receive their dream home courtesy of the hit ABC-TV reality show and the generosity of thousands of volunteers and donors across northwest Illinois. "We're just so overwhelmed!" said Joey Stott, who married Philip six years ago, blending their family and moving to their small farm outside Lena. "Putting together plans for the Stott house has been such an amazing process," said Rick Hasken, owner of Hasken Construction and the leader of the build. "Laurie and I feel honored to be part of helping make their dream home a reality."
The Stotts were selected as an Extreme Makeover: Home Edition family following their nomination for the program by area family friends.The project inspired more than the 3,000 people who literally touched it, spurring hundreds of people to donate money or goods and services to the project, donate blood, sign up to be bone marrow donors or donate a nonperishable food item for area food pantries. Organizers of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition build will work to carry on that spirit of giving with community service drives and more in the upcoming weeks. "The University of Illinois Extension, which is spearheading the Pay It Forward: EXTREME effort, has already received calls from interested groups," said Marilyn Smit, co-founder of M45 Marketing Services, which handled marketing and public relations for the build. "We're looking forward to showcasing one youth organization each week until this show's airdate," Smit said. "Those groups will be carrying on the incredibly generous spirit of giving we've seen in the past week here in northwest Illinois. If your group is interested, please call the University of Illinois Extension-Stephenson County at 815.235.4125 by Friday 9 October." For more information on the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition northwest Illinois build, visit www.extremehaskenconstruction.com. Follow events leading up to the build and the build itself via Twitter and Facebook.
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