ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition - Rucker Family
Air date: October 9, 2011
Dawn McCloskey of Ultra Organized, LLC was part of a volunteer group of NAPO Georgia members who helped organize a new home for Anaiah Rucker and her family in Madison, Georgia.
Earlier this year, Anaiah Rucker saved her little sister Camry’s life by pushing her out of the way of an oncoming truck. The then fourth-grader received CPR which saved her life, but she suffered life-threatening injuries and had her left leg amputated. To her younger sister, Camry, Anaiah is a hero who has said that she would do it again.
Dawn McCloskey and the other NAPO Georgia volunteers helped by unpacking household furnishings, unloading a semi-truck full of porch furniture, sorting through books, and unpacking and organizing supplies in the kitchen and laundry room. They even “organized” lumber by sorting it by size and type. Whatever was needed, these and other local volunteers did it to make this house a home for the Rucker family.
Behind the scenes.
A meal tent was set up for volunteers.
The entire street was blocked off to local traffic. One of the NAPO members captured this photo. I thought it amusing.
Dawn McCloskey and NAPO Georgia President, Sherry Lee Denton – riding over to the home site.
We all had to "sign our lives" away before being issued an official "Home Makeover" t-shirt and hard-hat. This is at the check-in tent.
The main frame of the home was done by the time we got there on Friday, but lots of activity was still going on INSIDE the home.
(Photos were not permitted inside the home.)
There was time to take some photos before we got to work.
Instructions were issued to all volunteers.
Instructions were given by TV producers.
Boxes of books were sorted based on criteria set forth by the TV producers.
Trucks and vans were emptied by chains of volunteers. Everything
in the house was brand new.
TV camera
Close-up of TV camera
Pro-wrestler, Steve "The Freak" Chamberland who helped secure the prosthetic leg for Anaiah. (He lost his leg in a motorcycle accident in 1999.)
“MOVE THAT BUS!”
Ty Pennington, the host of “Extreme Makeover – Home Edition” greeted spectators.
Ty Pennington, the host of “Extreme Makeover – Home Edition” got the crowds cheering.
Anaiah Rucker and her family going up the sidewalk for the big reveal of their new home.
Many members of NAPO Georgia went to Madison, GA to help set up the house for Anaiah Rucker and her family
Jodie Schmidt, Committee Chair organizer of this opportunity, and Sherry Lee Denton, NAPO Georgia President, presented the family with a gift certificate to receive monthly “organizing maintenance” from NAPO members.
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