On Oct. 4th J&P Cycles got a phone call from a producer of the ABC television show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”. The show takes a deserving family, sends them off for a vacation and in one week rebuilds their house. Last week (Oct. 3-9), the show’s crew was in West Union, Iowa to surprise Audrey Gibbs and her six children.

Talk about piling it on, some seven months after her husband died, Audrey suffered a brain aneurism that left her legally blind. Her doctors are not sure if she will if she will go completely blind or not. She wants to continue to provide for her kids but due to her poor eyesight she had to give up her job as a cosmetologist and took massage therapy classes, a job she feels she can do if she does lose her sight.

One thing she doesn’t need to worry about is a place to live. They live on the family farm. To get extra money they’ve rented significant portions of the farm’s fields to other local farmers. The biggest immediate problem is that the farmhouse needs lots of repairs. It has no working toilet, a ceiling that is caving in, plus the house’s layout doesn’t work well for the family or Audrey if her eyesight worsens.

That’s where “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” stepped in. The family was sent on a dream vacation to Boca Raton Resort & Club, while team leader Ty Pennington, designers Paul DiMeo ,Tracy Hutson, Sabrina Soto, Jeff Dye from “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” co-ordinate local builders, the Larson Construction Company Inc., and volunteers from the local community in rebuilding the farmhouse.

Now the J&P Cycles angle in this story is that the family are motorcycle enthusiasts. The people from “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” called J&P Cycles to see if they could do something special for the family. All the details haven’t been released yet but J&P Cycles is video taping their part of the project for the family. Keep checking the J&P Cycles’ Facebook page for information.

Look for the Gibbs home on an upcoming edition of the show. If you’d like to make a donation to help the family with their expenses you do so at:
www.joinextreme.com/iowa/builderfamilyfund .

Source and images: J&P Cycles
Posted by Sam Kanish

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