House #2, or more eloquently, The Beach House. The next few entries will tell a small part of the story of a family that lost it all on May 22, 2011 and the rebuilding of their house by Extreme Home Makeovers and one of their teams of great people. Blake Mullins was one of the lead […]
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I watched a team of people work endless hours to put the Beach House together and make it into what it was meant to be to welcome the Walters family into their new start on life. The Walters lost their home in the tornado and then had to sell the lot their home was built […]
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The Beach House, as with all the other houses, was the combined effort of many, many people. Dave is pictured with me on front porch with the surf boards. He was the lead builder on the project. Pete, with me on the back porch, and his company donated tens of thousands of dollars of materials to help […]
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Tommy and Diana are  a husband and wife team. Tommy’s talent with an air brush went WAY beyond the tee shirts you and I associate with air brushing. The wood bench you see ,with the 5 gallon lid on it, is actually a concrete bench. The beach ball Tommy painted is actually a 300 pound ball […]
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I met two great guys at breakfast in the Holiday Inn one morning. They were headed back to the build area to create art work on a 6’x50′ canvas. Brian and Daniel create tremendous works af art using cans of spray paint.  The canvas was used as the backdrop for the half-pipe in the back yard of […]
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Landon and I hang in the back yard. We spent a lot of hours working on different parts of the beach house. And sometimes it was a joint effort to finish a project that needed to be completed. The photos show some of the great things to help the Walters Family enjoy their new start. […]
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Pictured with me during one of many “final” clean-ups are Purcella, Jessica(runner girl was the nick name I gave her) and Shannon. Purcella took a bus from Phoenix just to come and help out. —-“Purcella when you read this please email me as I have a few pictures of you I can send.”   Walt was one […]
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This guy I decided deserved an entry of his own. As the 7 houses were being revealed it was a bit chilly. He did some part-time work at a local Crabby Shack and put his “street close” on to keep warm . So How could I pass up this shot??
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  Here are some more of the great people that came to lend a hand helping rebuilding people’s lives.   In the registration tent, from Missouri State University,  helping people sign in were Darrell, Marilyn, Ross (front row l-r), Ross, Ari, Andi, Myself, Victoria and Rainer.   A group of us stood in the back of an […]
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How does one express their thanks to people when there is an emotion involved WAY beyond words. I came to Joplin not knowing totally why I had decided I needed to be there. I knew nobody and had no clue what was in store for me. The FANTASTIC people at the Holiday Inn […]
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