Western Ky. family to get new home

September 20, 2009

Friday, Sep. 11, 2009

OWENSBORO, Ky. -- Volunteers have been working around the clock to help

complete a new home for a western Kentucky family chosen to be featured on

the ABC show " Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. "

Steve and Mattingly and their two daughters are getting a

3,200-square-foot home on the site at Maceo near Owensboro where they have

lived in a 700-square-foot mobile home.

The Mattinglys will get to see their new home for the first time Saturday

afternoon, and area residents are welcome to attend, the Messenger-Inquirer

in Owensboro reported.

Steve Mattingly, a volunteer firefighter, was injured when he was hit by a

car in December 2007 while directing traffic at a garage fire.

Mattingly works as a massage therapist and is an EMT.

Their daughters also have medical problems.

Madison, 11, has juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and recently had hand surgery

after an accident. Alana, 12, recently had a partial knee transplant and is

still recovering.

The family has spent the week in the Bahamas.

On Thursday, the ABC show spent several hours at Windy Hollow Raceway

filming the demolition of the family's mobile home by a monster truck. The

mobile home was moved from the family's land.

Several designers from the show, including Didiayer Snyder, Moloney

and special guest designer and rapper Xzibit, attended and filmed scenes for

the demolition, the newspaper reported.

Snyder said there was " no way " for them to fix up the mobile home to give

away, so the monster truck demolition was a chance to have fun with it.

Hundreds of local volunteers have joined in the work to build the family's

new home.

Tommy , president of the company that designed the home, said

volunteers were " working in great spirit and harmony. "

Snyder, whose expertise is in interior design and carpentry, said, " It's

pretty amazing to think (about) how many people ... come out to help. "

Information from: Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer,

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