When a TV crew and 3,000 volunteers descend on Voluntown for a week, that's news. I had a decent, if rain-soaked vantage point on December 11th to witness the arrival of the Girards at their newly constructed home - castle is more like it. Even though WBMW was in the process of giving away $5,000, the phone calls coming in were really centering on the ABC Extreme Makeover Home Edition unfolding in the northeast corner of New London County. This will not erase the series of tragedies that brought the Girard family to the attention of a primetime hit show, but it did show how this region rallied to help. It was worth the time I spent in the Voluntown mud waiting for them to "move that bus" just to see a community come together. Did ABC exploit this for ratings? Probably, but thousands of people who contributed to the cause can be very proud. Thanks to The Day for the closeup picture.
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