Extreme makeover home edition In Toledo !!

[bugsy98nb]

One lucky family here in town is getting a new home thanks to Extreme makeover home edition !!!

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll...WS16/809080299


Toledo mom, dad, and 11 sons will get new home through reality show
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Mommy's not sad, Jackie Frisch, 41, assured one of her children yesterday afternoon. 'Mommy has happy tears.'

Indeed they were happy tears — and still spilling hours after Jackie and Aaron Frisch, 39, and their 11 sons learned they had been chosen by the ABC reality TV show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition for its 128th building project, which is its first in Toledo and fourth in Ohio.

About 9:30 a.m., an EMHE bus pulled up in front of the Frisches' ranch home at 6044 Edgedale Circle, just east of Secor Road and north of Alexis Road. A design team lined up with show host Ty Pennington as he yelled, 'Good morning, Frisch family,' through a bullhorn.

'The room exploded,' said Mr. Frisch, who had been on the floor playing with 3-year-old Isaiah as the family waited and listened for the bus.

'We bolted out the door,' said his son Blade, 15 — whose name honors his grandfather, the late Bill Krum, who was a mailer at The Blade for 35 years. His brother Me'gail, 14, 'almost tackled' Mr. Pennington, he added.

'It was like a stampede out of the front door,' agreed Tim Schlachter, president of Buckeye Real Estate Group, which will build the family's home. He was watching the action on a TV screen in a nearby production trailer with a group that included Mike White, Buckeye's vice president, and their wives.

There were tears spilling in there, too, he said.

'I'm just overwhelmed at the pure joy and hope this family is feeling now,' Mr. Schlachter said. '[Mrs. Frisch] kept saying, ‘We don't have to worry anymore,' and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you … You could see the worry fade from her face.'

It's been a rough couple of years, Mrs. Frisch explained later, because of her health problems and not being able to work to supplement her husband's income as a Toledo firefighter and paramedic.

Another worry is 'the fear that's been in my children,' she said. 'This gives them something to think about other than, what's going to happen tomorrow? This gives them a new, exciting ‘What's going to happen tomorrow.'?'

Mrs. Frisch is an ordained minister and former youth pastor at Calvary Bible Chapel. After having five surgeries and being diagnosed with a soft-tissue disease called Ehrlers-Danlos Syndrome, she has had a series of strokes that have left her partially paralyzed.

The show, focusing on building projects for 'hometown heroes,' said in a news release that Mr. Frisch 'has saved many lives, including the life of his rescue partner during the Toledo riots in October, 2005.'

The Blade reported on Oct. 22, 2005, that Mr. Frisch and Kathy Zeller were in a life squad that was pelted with rocks during the chaos in North Toledo. The door windows shattered and an object hit Mr. Frisch in the elbow. Ms. Zeller was hit in the head.

Mr. Frisch backed the vehicle out of the area and drove his partner to St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center for treatment, arriving with a brick still embedded in the windshield.

'They are the most giving two people you'd ever see in your life,' Eddie Smith said of Mr. and Mrs. Frisch. He lives next door at 6048 Edgedale with his wife, Teri, and their nine children, a mix of biological and adopted children that they said was inspired by the Frisches' example.

Of the 11 children that Mr. and Mrs. Frisch have living at home, three are biological — Blade, Connor, 13, and Cole, 10. Five were adopted from an orphanage in Haiti: Moe, 18; Joe, 18; Benson, 17; Max, 16, and Charlie, 10. Three boys were adopted in Toledo: Me'gail, 14; Mikail, 7, and Isaiah.

Their three-bedroom home sits on a cul-de-sac in a neighborhood that almost immediately began being transformed into a construction site and television production set.

A food tent was put up, streets were blocked off, and security personnel began limiting access. Large trailers lumbered into the neighborhood and were wedged into place, with tree branches trimmed here and there to accommodate them. Clusters of people gathered.

Not a single neighbor objected when they were interviewed as part of the process of selecting the family for the makeover, said Diane Korman, senior producer. 'They have said, ‘Park something on my lawn,' and ‘How can we help?'?'

Neighbors in four other parts of town also were interviewed about the finalist families on their blocks. While joy surrounded the Frisches, painful disappointment surely engulfed those who received phone calls yesterday rather than a visit from the EMHE bus. The identities of those families remain confidential, Ms. Korman said.

About 5 p.m., the Frisch family left the 1,800-square-foot home where Mrs. Frisch said 'we live on top of each other.'

They were going to Detroit in a limo for a flight to Florida and a vacation at Disney World.

They'll return to a two-story, 4,000-square-foot, five-bedroom, five-bath home that the builders estimate would cost $500,000 if it were being built for a client.

According to the builder's Web site, buildwithbuckeye.com, the site will be closed to the public today but open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. the rest of the week. Spectators will be shuttled to the building site from the Banner Mattress parking lot at 2521 West Alexis. Parking is not permitted in the neighborhood surrounding the building site.

EMHE will air the Toledo project sometime in November. The show is broadcast locally at 8 p.m. Sundays on WTVG-TV, Channel 13.

Ms. Korman, a veteran of every EMHE build except the pilot episode, said she still gets weepy when the process starts.

'You just know their lives are about to change. I still tear up because I know what this means for the family.'

[AmyJane]

Very cool, Jay!

[bugsy98nb]

Originally Posted by CyberGreenBaby

Very cool, Jay!

Hey Amy !

Yeah i think its cool . I should go try to snap some pics of Ty

[AmyJane]

Originally Posted by bugsy98nb

Hey Amy !

Yeah i think its cool . I should go try to snap some pics of Ty

Ooh yeah! He's a hottie

EMHE was here a few years ago. They built a house for a policeman and his kids. His wife, Ann Marie Vitale passed away from Leukemia when she was 28

http://www.annmarievitale.com/herstory.html

[Boopster]

That's wonderful, a couple of years ago in a town close to me, Extreme makeover home came and built a house for a family that lost everything in a tornado, the mom laid on top of her 2 little boys to save them,and was paralized from the waist down,
so they made the whole house, handicap friendly for her, it was heart warming I don't know if you saw that one.Yours is a great story

[Mazzzja]

that show

[yellowherbie]

Thats pretty awsome! I love watching that show... Most of the time I have tears in my eyes. I love seeing people getting blessed!

[ubugnme04]

I am going to preface the following statements with:
I think it's great what ABC and the show do for these families who need the help and from what I have seen the majority of the families that get new homes are those that are fighting the good fight. They are usually families that are on the brink and are very deserving.

Now the some what negitives about the show.

They did a show in southern Vermont last year..being a small state they pulled volunteers and contractors from throughout Vermont. I heard a lot of grumbling about how volunteers and contractors were treated...which wasn't good which is unfortunate. The volunteers and contractors kept working through being mistreated for the family they were helping. I am not going to get into details about it, but volunteers should be appreciated and treated with the utmost respect. I couldn't do my job if it wasn't for those who give so much of themselves volunteering. I heard from someone working as an interior designer that Ty isn't that nice of a guy on set (hot yes)....she actually did Ty's special project not him. It was his ideas, but really didn't so much of it. The show has also said they will never come back and help a Vermont family because it's too rural and the terrain is too rough. I don't think that is a good reason to automatically turn down a family in need, just because of where they live. There are people in need in rural areas and in big cities and everything in between.

Instead of going on a vacation the family volunteered at (I believe) Ronald McDonald House. There were medical reasons with the child that was ill, but they didn't just go so he could be cared for the whole family helped out in the community. I think these families need to be able to get that vacation they can't afford, but feel in some ways it's good that the family is helping out others while their dream home is being built for them. It should be more about giving back for what you have been blessed with. I guess I do feel that these families do need the vacation just to get away from their stresses for a week, but I also think giving back while someone is doing something for you is important too.

I do believe that a show like this helps out some wonderful people who are deserving and really need the help...I just wish I didn't have the insight I do about the things that happened when they were in Vermont.