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Published: August 16, 2009
COUNTRY® Financial & State Farm® Collect Food for Extreme Home Makeover Family
Bloomington, Ill., August 14, 2009 – Relief rolls in for the Extreme Home Makeover family thanks to COUNTRY® Financial and State Farm®. The two companies are collaborating to collect food for the soon to be announced Extreme Home Makeover family here in Central Illinois.
If you would like to donate non-perishable food, please consider downloading and printing the Shopping Guide (click here). If you would like to make a donation please go to:
The Bloomington’s Schnucks’ Veterans Parkway parking lot through Wednesday, Aug. 19. Brandt Trucking has graciously donation a semi truck for the food. People can drop off non-perishable food to the site throughout the day starting Saturday at 11 am. A full shopping list of what will be helpful to the family chosen and their community can be found here. Below are the time slots for food drop-off:
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday (August 15 and 16th)
11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Wednesday (August 17 through 19th)
OR we will also accept donations at Brady's Bloomington and Champaign office's:
2201 Eastland Drive, Suite 4,
Bloomington, IL 61704
Drop off times for the Bloomington Office are as follows:
August 11th - 14th 8am-5pm,
August 15th - 16th 10am-2pm,
August 17th - 21st 8am-5pm.
Brady Homes Champaign
2919 Crossing Court
Champaign, IL 61822
August 12-14 8:30am-5pm,
August 17-21 8:30am-5pm.
Once we surprise the lucky family, we will be able to accept donations on set beginning on 8/19 - 8/24. Stay tuned!
“It’s exciting to see the people of our community coming together to provide food for those in need, and to
have two of our leading companies supporting the effort, said Ed Brady, from Brady Homes the contractor for the Central Illinois Extreme Makeover: Home Edition build.
Five families within a 50 mile radius of the Brady Homes’ office in Bloomington, IL, are being considered for the build, all of whom have been deemed “Heroes at Home.” On Tuesday, August 18th, one lucky family will be surprised by Ty Pennington, team leader of the show, and the design team when they hear a knock at their front door.
Please visit www.extremebradyhomes.com for updated information regarding media updates, volunteers, and contributions.
For more information regarding ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Central Illinois Food Drive, please contact Mark McAllister at 309-838-3250. For more information about the Central Illinois Food Drive, please call COUNTRY Financial contact Jay Verner 309-821-3372 or State Farm contact Missy Lundberg at 312-914-0857.
ABOUT EMHE
The Emmy award winning reality program “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” now in its 7th season, is produced by Endemol USA, a division of Endemol Holding. It’s executive-produced by Anthony Dominici. David Goldberg is Chairman, Endemol North America. The show airs Sundays 7 to 8 p.m. on ABC.
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