October 4, 2008

• Extreme Home Makeover is in Albert Lea!!!

  

  Extreme Home Makeover and Ty Pennington, are in Albert Lea this weekend building a 4000 square foot home for the DeVries family. Their story is compelling and the community support is overwhelming. I have been following this from afar via Albert Lea Tribune The Tribune provides a link to the local story and images of the progress of this home.

  Yesterday I went to Albert Lea to catch up with Isaac and his class as they went to the Big Island Rendezvous. Then I photographed Leigha’s senior portraits, stopped at my parent’s, filled up with gas and headed back to Rochester. I knew approximately where the home was being built and thought I might catch a glance of it on my way home on I-90.

  It was more than a glance. It was like the star of Bethlehem lighting up the night! This home is in the middle of the country and getting there was not difficult. You just followed the stream of cars there. We drove through a field, parked in a field and exited through the field. The traffic reminded me of Field of Dreams. “Build it and the will come”. When the cars followed each other down a lonely gravel road. Well, they are building it and they came. 9:00 pm at night and there were hundreds of people gathered in support and more on the other side of the barricade building the home.

  The feeling was beyond words. I want to be there right now.

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