106 hours later, a new house (Extreme Home Make-over comes to Corvallis)

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TV reality show - Experts say an old Corvallis house was a danger to a young girl's fragile immune system Monday, July 09, 2007JAMES MAYER The Oregonian Staff
When members of the Byers family return from Disney World later this week, they won't recognize their moldy, dry-rot-stricken Corvallis home.

Beginning today, about 2,000 volunteers -- including Oregon State University's NCAA champion baseball team, swinging demolition bats -- will transform the house in exactly 106 work hours for ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." It's the first episode of the reality show to be shot in the state.

"The old barn-raisings were a community event where everybody got together," said Jim Chapman, president of Legend Homes of Portland, the contractor on the project. "That's how we're looking at this. I'm hoping it inspires the rest of the state to do something like this."

Eight-year-old Jenessa was diagnosed with a rare aggressive cancer in January 2006. Nicknamed Boey, "the little warrior," by friends, she endured a year of chemotherapy and radiation, then became active in the fight against cancer. She started a foundation and has visited other cancer patients. Her cancer recently returned.

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