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Sparrow Clubs USA is a Washington non-profit organization helps high schools to "adopt" children with diseases such as cancer and help raise funds to help cover medical expenses. It received national attention in an edition of ABC's popular series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition when they profiled The McPhail Family. [1]
In 1992, teacher Jeff Leeland and his wife Kristi found themselves in a desperate situation. His nine-month-old son Michael needed a bone marrow transplant, but insurance provided by his new job did not cover the $200,000 cost. At the time, Jeff was the teacher of an adaptive physical education class. Dameon, one of Jeff's students, heard about his teacher's dilemma, and made a gift of $60 to help. Dameon's $donation started a chain reaction of compassion by the kids and staff at Kamiakin Junior High. The community rallied behind these students and in four weeks raised $227,000. Michael received his lifesaving transplant. These students created a future model for students to become catalysts of the same spirit of compassion and contribution in their own communities by helping children in medical need, and in 1995, Sparrow Clubs was established. [2]
C.J. McPhail, along with his wife Lindsay, started a chapter of the Sparrow Clubs in Southern Oregon seven years after the original Club started. Their generosity and ongoing work earned them national attention in 2011 when they were selected to have their home rebuilt on the ABC television reality series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition . [3] Their home was replaced with a new home. The entire construction process was chronicled on local ABC affiliate KDRV NewsWatch 12 and all other television outlets. [4]
William Harrison Frist is an American physician, businessman, and politician who served as United States Senator for Tennessee from 1995 to 2007. A heart and lung transplant surgeon by occupation, he was Senate Majority Leader from 2003 to 2007. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is an American reality television series that premiered on December 3, 2003 on ABC and reran on Discovery Family. The series is a spin-off of Extreme Makeover that features a family that has faced some sort of recent or ongoing hardship having their home completely remodeled to better suit their exact needs.
Extreme Makeover is an American reality television series that premiered on ABC on December 11, 2002. Created by television producer Howard Schultz. The show depicts ordinary men and women undergoing "extreme makeovers" involving plastic surgery, exercise regimens, hairdressing, and wardrobing. Each episode ends with the participants' return to their families and friends, who have not been allowed to see the incremental changes during the participants' absence, and showing their reactions.
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Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming is a 2007 American made-for-television supernatural horror film produced by Lions Gate Entertainment. The film premiered on the Sci Fi Channel. Originally titled The Dead Speak, it was written and directed by Ernie Barbarash and is a sequel to the 1999 feature film Stir of Echoes, although its only connection to the previous work is a similar premise and the inclusion of Jake Witzky, who had a key role in the original film but is only a secondary character here.
Jason Thomas is a United States Marine who located and rescued people in the aftermath of collapse of the World Trade Center in New York City after the September 11 attacks in 2001. With fellow U.S. Marine David Karnes, he helped find a pair of Port Authority Police officers buried in the rubble of the World Trade Center.
Captain Andrew James Baldwin, MD, USN is a US Naval Officer, ironman triathlete, television personality, humanitarian, and physician. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, he received his bachelor's degree from Duke University and his medical degree from UCSF.
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This is a list of season 1 episodes of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition series.
The University of Louisville Cardinal Marching Band is the official marching band of the University of Louisville (UofL) in Louisville, Kentucky. It is considered a Music Ambassador for UofL. The CMB performs at all home football games at Cardinal Stadium, all postseason bowl games, and select away football games. It also plays at the annual Spring Scrimmage Game which pits the Cardinal Offense against the Cardinal Defense.
Kyu Ha Kim was a South Korean judoka. He was the youngest judoka to get his kudan. He was posthumously promoted to, jūdan the 10th degree black belt. He also practiced in the Korean martial art, Taekwondo and attained the rank of 9th degree black belt. Prior to his death he taught martial arts for over sixty years. He established a school in Brentwood, PA and taught at the University of Pittsburgh. In June 2008, he became the oldest successful heart transplant recipient of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
On April 10, 2017, a shooting occurred inside a special education classroom at North Park Elementary School in San Bernardino, California. The shooting was an apparent murder–suicide and an act of domestic violence. Three people—the gunman; his wife, who taught at the school; and a student standing behind her—died from their wounds. Another student was wounded and hospitalized.