 | ABC's Extreme Home Makeover: Home Edition is going local!
This coming January, the award-winning Extreme Makeover: Home Edition show will focus on the Drumm family from Franklin County, PA. The show will air on Sunday, January 18th, 2009 from 8-9pm.
When you put together one very run-down house, a deserving family, several opinionated designers, seven days and what do you get? The answer is Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. The show has won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Reality Program, plus two People's Choice Awards and the Family Television Award for Best Alternative/Reality Program.
After the birth of their second child with autism, Matthew and Blasia Drumm of Franklin County, PA, dedicated their lives to children with disabilities. They help manage special needs Little League and during the school year, Blasia works as a teacher’s aide at the Franklin Learning Center for Handicapped Children. Their little league program has been a source of weekly gatherings for the communities’ special needs and the Drumm family helps operate the concession stand and coordinate travel for the league to other tri-state games and tournaments. Matthew and Blasia have been of assistance to other blossoming leagues and they were awarded the Penn Marr Challenger League Division Family Service Award in 2006. | | | When the Drumms purchased their home, they were unaware that the home and its' surrounding lot were used to dump trash and waste. Because of financial hardships, the family has not made any improvements to the home, which is heated by one single wood-burning stove. The Drumm’s hope for the future is to work full-time from home to help other special-needs families. With a dream of transforming their family’s junkyard home into a fresh new family dwelling where they can offer in-home respite care to other special needs children, Ty and the designers of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition have a big challenge in store for them.
Tune in Sunday, January 18th at 8pm to see how the Drumms' dream build turned out! | | |
