The Extreme Makeover Home Edition show has come to Indianapolis. Normally this wouldn’t be something I would comment upon, but in a nice piece of public relations outreach, Carmel-based Estridge Builders, sent me (and I presume other Indiana bloggers) an e-mail offering coverage opportunities of some sort. (The e-mail is back at my work computer, so I forget the specifics.) Work is such that I don’t think I’ll be able to take them up on the offer, but I appreciate the thought, so I figured I’d give the show and the builder a mention here.
They will be re-doing the home of Bernard McFarland’s northeast of downtown.
Per Josh Duke’s article for the Indianapolis Star:
This week, the Indianapolis neighborhood around 25th Street and Keystone Avenue will be a center of activity as Estridge workers and more than 4,000 volunteers descend for the weeklong construction of a new home.
It’s a neighborhood in which McFarland — described in a news release as a single father — already plays a key role.
McFarland, a computer specialist at the school district, produced a documentary in 2001 about the Martindale-Brightwood community, where he grew up and later returned to live as an adult.
McFarland hoped to renew interest in the once-vibrant neighborhood that had fallen victim to vacant homes, lost jobs and rising crime.
It is such a wonderful thing to see people that have been helping people be granted such a wonderful gift. I hope to see many children gain from this valuable project. Thank you again to Estridge Homes and to everyone involved.
God Bless