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February 25, 2008

Extreme Makeover family awaiting big reveal

WARWICK -- The Silva family has been sitting in a limousine for a half-hour or more, just around the corner from where finishing touches have been put on their new, three-times-as-big home.

That's the word from an Extreme Makeover: Home Edition crew member to media gathered outside the home on Yucatan Drive -- in the same spot where the Extreme Makeover crew knocked the old one down last week -- around 2 p.m. But in the half-hour or so leading up to about 3:15 p.m., a mattress was delivered for a race car-shaped bed that had been brought in.

Kenny and Doreen Silva and their family returned from Florida yesterday, then were put up in a hotel room so that today's surprising sight would be preserved. A needy family is selected for each episode of the ABC program.

As the big moment awaits, the show's host Ty Pennington has been working the crowd outside the new home.

Read about the dismantling of the old house.
-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney, with reports from Journal staff writer Tom Mooney

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 3:25 PM | Permalink

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