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One-Year Anniversary of EM:HE "Ambush" For Moorhead's Grommesh Family
10/05/2011
One year ago today… we were huddled in an ice rink, awaiting the ambush of the Grommesh family. One year ago today… Ty Pennington shouted atop a Zamboni, words that would change that family’s life forever. One year later, today… we remember how the Fargo-Moorhead community united in what became an event that will forever be a part this area’s history.
The week of October 3-10, marks the one-year anniversary of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition build for Moorhead’s family of four - Bill, Adair, Peighton, and Garrett Grommesh. From the time of the announcement through the spectacular foot-home’s reveal, volunteers and trades worked their magic to make the Grommeshes’ lives a whole lot easier, all thanks to a giving community with a huge heart.
It took an astonishing total of 5,500 volunteers and 300 trade workers to build this so-called “House of Hope,” (source Kevin Wallevand), along with 5000 square feet of siding, 420 pieces of sheetrock, 250 square feet of rock for the exterior of the home, 200 bundles of shingles, and 47 windows, (source Kevin Wallevand). Bill and Adair now have a functioning, and beautiful home office to call the headquarters of Hope, Inc, and children Peighton, now 13, and Garrett, now 11, have the pleasure of living life comfortably.
“The Heritage Homes Team is blessed to have helped this local family, the Grommeshes, receive new life – a home that was built for them and their needs instead of the other way around. It has been an incredible year since, and we are so happy to have given that dream to them,” Tyrone Leslie, President and Co-Owner of Heritage Homes commented.O
