Extreme Home Make-over for Highland, Indiana Family
03-30-2007, 10:50 AM
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Extreme Home Make-over for Highland, Indiana Family
This is an excerpt I have copied from the online edition of The Times. Please go to the site and sign the petition. This family needs all the help they can get! Please Sign so they can get all the signatures needed to send in the application!! I'm sure with all the people on BonnevilleClub, we could help quite a bit. I personally know this family and they really need this. If my 1 word thread went 16 pages, this can do way better!!!!
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Leslie
Friends push to have Highland family get home makeover
Wednesday, March 28, 2007 1:58 PM CDT
BY CAROLYN THOMPSON
cthompson@nwitimes.com
219.933.3229
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HIGHLAND | Richard Garza reads bedtime stories to his 6-year-old daughter from the hallway and to his 8-year-old son by walkie-talkie.
His home on Clough Avenue is not handicap-accessible, making it challenging for Garza, a paraplegic, to get around.
Garza, 45, tumbled from a ladder while fixing the roof on his Highland home in June of 2003 and has used a wheelchair since.
Then there are the financial handicaps. Garza, his wife and two children are dependent on state aid and Social Security.
And that'* where his friends -- even those he has yet to meet -- come in.
A committee of neighbors hopes to gather 50,000 signatures as an application to the popular series, ABC'* "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." So far, the group has 2,000 signatures.
Those who would like to help can log on to
http://petitiononline.com/rg032107/petition.html
Thanks,
Leslie
Friends push to have Highland family get home makeover
Wednesday, March 28, 2007 1:58 PM CDT
BY CAROLYN THOMPSON
cthompson@nwitimes.com
219.933.3229
CORRECTION APPENDED
HIGHLAND | Richard Garza reads bedtime stories to his 6-year-old daughter from the hallway and to his 8-year-old son by walkie-talkie.
His home on Clough Avenue is not handicap-accessible, making it challenging for Garza, a paraplegic, to get around.
Garza, 45, tumbled from a ladder while fixing the roof on his Highland home in June of 2003 and has used a wheelchair since.
Then there are the financial handicaps. Garza, his wife and two children are dependent on state aid and Social Security.
And that'* where his friends -- even those he has yet to meet -- come in.
A committee of neighbors hopes to gather 50,000 signatures as an application to the popular series, ABC'* "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." So far, the group has 2,000 signatures.
Those who would like to help can log on to
http://petitiononline.com/rg032107/petition.html
03-30-2007, 11:19 AM
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2191 Signatures Total
Including mine...I love that show!!!
The wife is going to share that with her parenitng forum too...should be a big boost.
Including mine...I love that show!!!
The wife is going to share that with her parenitng forum too...should be a big boost.
03-30-2007, 11:54 AM
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I've been trying to get our family on there for quite a while now because our house is by no means wheelchair accessible for my brother, I love that show, i love what they do for people.
I signed - - number 2254
I signed - - number 2254
