Keller Family's 'Extreme Makeover' Home to Air March 1 on ABC

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Keller Family's 'Extreme Makeover' Home to Air March 1 on ABC

BY BETTY DILLARD
February 26, 2009

The newly rebuilt home of the Augustin family in Keller will be unveiled March 1 during an episode of the Emmy Award-winning television series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

The program will air locally at 7 p.m. on Channel 8 WFAA.

Amber and Peter Augustin, a March of Dimes volunteer family, received a new home built and donated by Wall Homes of Arlington in less than a week’s time during the taping of the program in December 2008. Since that time Wall Homes has filed for bankruptcy.

The show is a highlight of the program’s “Heroes in the Community” series.

The Augustins were selected because they are dedicated to helping families with premature babies and because of their active participation with the March of Dimes.

The couple’s son, Lane, was born prematurely in 2004, and spent a month hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit at Baylor Healthcare Systems. He underwent countless surgeries before he was a year old and today still has some on-going health challenges.

Two years after Lane’s birth, a flood destroyed the Augustins’ house along with Amber’s photography studio.

“I can’t believe this is happening,” said Amber Augustin. “Losing our home was a nightmare, but the silver lining is the support we’ve seen from our community and our family at the March of Dimes.”

The Augustins have raised thousands of dollars to support March of Dimes research and other programs to help prevent and treat premature death.

“My dream is to raise national awareness that premature birth is a serious and growing problem,” said Peter Augustin. “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition not only gave us a new home, but is helping more moms have healthy, full-term babies by highlighting the March for Babies this year.”

Donations can be made to the Augustins’ team, Lane’s Light, or a family can create its own team by visiting marchforbabies.org

Farmers Insurance, a national sponsor of the March for Babies, provided insurance for the new home for one year at no cost to the family.

bdillard@bizpress.net

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Hello, my name is Debbie Mitchell, I am orginally from the Northeast and have been in Texas for the past 15 years. While living in Massachusetts, I worked as a Foreclosure Manager for 15 years for an Appraiser, Real Estate Company and Auctioneer. I have been a Real Estate Paralegal for 19 years and have worked for Barnes & Noble for 5 years and GameStop as Legal/Leasing Manager, for 8 years negotiating Retail Leases in the US, Guam, Puerto Rico and Hawaii. I am also a licensed real estate agent. I left the "Corporate World" and bought into Texas Sold Team Realty LLC two (2) years ago and became Co-Owner. I oversee Property Management for both residential and commercial properties, including leasing.

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