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Area plant’s work to be featured on Extreme Makeover
Area workers helped seven families devastated by the May tornado in Joplin, Mo. regain a piece of what was lost.
The Ply Gem Siding Group plant in Sidney made soffit, gutters, gutter protection, trim coil and other aluminum for seven houses as part of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’s Joplin build.
The episode featuring the work of Ply Gem’s workers in Sidney and other parts of the country will air on ABC at 8 p.m., Friday, Jan. 13.
Jerry Blais, vice president of marketing for Ply Gem Siding Group, said about 50 of his company’s employees helped on site and hundreds supplied and made materials for the build.
The seven personalized houses were constructed in seven days.
Blais, a Wright State University graduate raised in Piqua, said the Sidney plant was instrumental to the project.
“They were very, very, very involved,” Blais, currently a resident of Kansas City, Kan., said. “They were back home making sure we had everything we needed.”
Ply Gem’s Great Lakes Window plant in Toledo made the windows for one of the houses, the “Eco Cottage.”
The May Tornado in Joplin killed about 160 people and destroyed nearly 8,000 homes.
Headquartered in Cary, N.C., Ply Gem is a leading manufacturer of residential exterior building products in North America. It employs 4,300 people.
The hit reality show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, now in its ninth season, rebuilds homes for those deemed needy.
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January 3, 2012 1:53 PM | Link to this
the jan 13th episode is the last!
By SHELBY M
January 3, 2012 4:55 PM | Link to this
I will miss this show that i like alot.sorry to see them go off the air.
By Constance Badmington
January 4, 2012 4:59 PM | Link to this
I am glad to see that exorbidant remake of ‘Queen for a Day’ end. On the up side, it’s good anytime a local company gets a nationwide plug!!