Westwego Family to Receive New Home
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Westwego Family to Receive New Home from ABC's Extreme Makeover : Home
Edition and Sunrise Homes Team with Others
Company Participates in Volunteer Build as Part of Its 50th Anniversary Celebration
WESTWEGO, La – March 6, 2008 – Today New Orleans value homebuilder,
Sunrise Homes, joined ABC-TV's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition to help one deserving
Westwego family receive a new home. A new home will be completely built in
one week through the teamwork of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Sunrise Homes
and other builders, contractors, landscape experts and home professionals from
throughout the United States. The team represents 18 builders from 12 states
coming together to help this deserving family.
This morning the Usea Family received the "door knock" from Extreme Makeover:
Home Edition's Ty Pennington and the Design Team informing them that they had
been selected to receive an extreme home makeover. The Useas moved out of their
severely distressed home, and in just seven days the team of designers, volunteer
contractors and workers will demolish the old home and build a new home.
Brad and Laura Usea's home was severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Even
worse, Brad's mother, Grace's home was completely destroyed leaving her, Brad's
older brother, Chris, and Brad's twin brother, Chad, all homeless. Brad and
Laura took in their family members without hesitation.
In February 2007, tornadoes struck Westwego in the middle of the night causing
more devastation to Brad and Laura's already battered home and destroying the
trailer in the backyard where Chris had been living since Katrina. The family
continues to live under one cramped roof while Brad and Chad, both volunteer
firefighters, help the rest of the community rebuild.
Sunrise/Usea Family
On the same lot where their current home still stands today, Sunrise Homes
along with a team of builders from across the country, Ty Pennington and the "EMHE'
team, will build an expansive new structure that will allow the extended family
members privacy and independence.
"We were honored to have been approached by "Extreme Makeover" and offered an
opportunity to help a local family in need make their home one they can be proud
of," said Mr. Larry Kornman, President of Sunrise Homes. "It is our strongly
held belief that we are growing with the communities we have helped to create.
We have been the beneficiaries of the faith and good will of those communities
and we are eager to give back."
The seven-day build in New Orleans is the show's last stop on a 50-state tour
and will wrap up the show's season. The build will be featured in a special
two-hour episode that will air as the season finals on Sunday, May 18 at 7
p.m. CST.
About Sunrise Homes:
Sunrise Homes, a diversified land acquisition, development and construction
company specializing in value oriented single and multi-family communities,
celebrates 50 years of regional homebuilding this year
About ABC-TVs 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 5th season on ABC. The program is
produced by Endemol USA, a division of Endemol Holding. Denise Cramsey is the
president of Endemol USA.
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