Marlene Pellegrini REALTOR® ERA REALTY PROs - Eastern Connecticut

It's December 4th, 2008...

Ty Pennington will pull up in the bus and yell (if he hasn't already),

"GOOD MORNING ?????? FAMILY!"

I got up early this morning and went online to read the latest article in The Day paper and still... no "official" reveal of the name of the family. I read the Norwich Bulletin and again no reveal of the name of the family yet. I know this all must be protocol, but come on....

HOW DO YOU HIDE THIS KIND OF INFORMATION?? IT IS SUCH A HUGE EVENT!

There are so many people involved!

I drove through the town last night where this house is going to be built and one of its major roads is closed off and there are detours around the location.

A 'volunteer coordinator' called me the other night to confirm my volunteer time slot on Sunday, December 7th. I asked her when the name of he family will be revealed and she said it would be today, December 4th at NOON.

I will follow protocol and post more information at NOON today.

UPDATE: The Girard Family of Voluntown is the family...Click here for my latest post about this exciting event.

Here is some interesting info:

• My husband Rob Pellegrini, who works for The Granite Group - a plumbing and heating supply company, has been coordinating the products donated for the heating system. (The Granite Group is one of the many sponsors of this project). He has been stressing because one of the major parts to the heating system has not arrived yet. He may need to send one of his company trucks on a long trip to NY to pick it up if it is not here TODAY. Rob will take part in helping with the installation of the heating system which will be done on Sunday, December 7th and it needs to be completed and running in 7 hours.
• Did you know that this house will be energy efficient or 'green'?? All of that in 106 hours of building.
• There will be a shuttle bus to the site so people take a ride in and be observers of the building process. A canned food donation to the United Way is payment to take this shuttle.
• There will also be a blood drive and a toy drive onsite.
• The house will have 5 bedrooms.
• Demolition of the old house will begin Saturday!
• The MOVE THAT BUS reveal will be December 11th (if everything stays on schedule).
• The show will air on ABC on February 8th, 2009.

Stay Tuned...

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About the Author:

Marlene is a licensed Realtor for the Dan Sperduto Home Selling Team of Eastern CT. Please feel free to contact Marlene to find out more about the UNIQUE and successful marketing systems used by this award winning team of Realtors. To find real estate listings including homes for sale, search for properties from our agency AND from the MLS at www.dansperduto.com.

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170 Flanders Road ~ Niantic, CT 06357 ~ (860) 886-7000 x121

106 Westcott Road ~ Danielson, CT 06239 ~ (860) 779-1943 x121

Direct (860) 884-6169 ~ Fax (860) 691-5011

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Update: The Girard Family of Voluntown, CT gets a new home from EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION!! Hooray!

*******************************************************************About the Author: Marlene is a licensed Realtor for the Dan Sperduto Home Selling Team of Eastern CT. Please feel free to contact Marlene to find out more about the UNIQUE and successful marketing systems used by this award winning team of Realtors. To find real estate listings including homes for sale, search for properties from our agency AND from the MLS at www.dansperduto.com. ERA REALTY PROs 170 Flanders Road ~ Niantic, CT 06357 ~ (860) 886-7000 x121 106 Westcott Road ~ Danielson, CT 06239 ~ (860) 779-1943 x121 Direct (860) 884-6169 ~ Fax (860) 691-5011 Copyright © 2008 By Marlene Pellegrini, All Rights Reserved.

If you haven't been following my blog in the last week, I have been bursting at the seams to be able to share the secret happenings behind the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and its scheduled project for my neck of the woods.

What I can share with you today is that:

• My real estate board, the Eastern Connecticut Association of Realtors® (ECAR), is donating $10,000 to this 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' project. I am so pleased about this generous donation that my board is making. Just knowing that I have paid my board dues and a portion of it will be going to a very worthy cause for a family who really deserves this money, makes me very, very happy.
• My friend Mark Provost, owner of MRP Plumbing will be a volunteer working on the completion of the plumbing on the project.
• My friend Ron Spicer, owner of Spicer Sheetmetal & Contracting will be a volunteer working on the completion of the heating/cooling systems & duct work on the project.
• My husband Rob Pellegrini, who is the branch manager of The Granite Group - a plumbing and heating supply company - has been coordinating the donated products and supplies for the heating system for this project. Rob will also be a volunteer, assisting with the installation of the plumbing and heating systems of the project.
• I was just contacted TODAY and it was confirmed that I will be one of the volunteers working at the site on Sunday, December 7th.

The announcement of the deserving family who will be benefiting from this project is going to be next Thursday, December 4th. A tremendously large volunteer crew will be working from Friday, December 5th through Thursday, December 11th - NON STOP... 24 hours a day... To complete this home. This means in all weather conditions... And it has been very cold here in Eastern CT.

The 'MOVE THAT BUS' reveal is planned for December 11th, if everything stays on schedule!

For update about this exciting event:

• SUBSCRIBE TO MY BLOG by Email... For the REVEAL OF THE WHOLE STORY - that is only one week away.
• Or, subcribe to my blog and check back as I will continue to post about the whole event.

PLEASE STAY TUNED................

In the mean time, visit the official web site for this project, which is www.extremehomebybruno.com. Here you will see other sponsors for this project.

Here are the links to my previous posts:

Extreme Makeover - Home Edition is coming to Connecticut... My SECRET is out... Well, part of it!

I HAVE A SECRET... And I Am Splitting At The Seams To Tell Someone!

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About the Author:

Marlene is a licensed Realtor for the Dan Sperduto Home Selling Team of Eastern CT. Please feel free to contact Marlene to find out more about the UNIQUE and successful marketing systems used by this award winning team of Realtors. To find real estate listings including homes for sale, search for properties from our agency AND from the MLS at www.dansperduto.com.

ERA REALTY PROs

170 Flanders Road ~ Niantic, CT 06357 ~ (860) 886-7000 x121

106 Westcott Road ~ Danielson, CT 06239 ~ (860) 779-1943 x121

Direct (860) 884-6169 ~ Fax (860) 691-5011

Copyright © 2008 By Marlene Pellegrini, All Rights Reserved.

Did you know that there are many descendants of the Mayflower living today, but very few people know it?

Here are some of the people who have had their genealogy/blood lineage traced back to the passengers who sailed on that historic journey almost 400 years ago:

• Alec Baldwin
• Dick Van Dyke
• Sarah Palin
• Hugh Hefner
• Richard Gere
• Clint Eastwood
• George Bush
• Barbara Bush

Then there are people who have died such as:

• Humphrey Bogart and
• Marilyn Monroe

My mother-in-law has traced the the blood lineage of her ancestors and has also discovered that she too is a descendant of the Mayflower... Which makes my husband and children descendants as well. Their blood lineage is traced to the passenger named William Bradford.

My children even belong to an organization called The Mayflower Society.

For more information about others who are descendants of the Mayflower visit www.mayflowerhistory.com.

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About the Author:

Marlene is a licensed Realtor for the Dan Sperduto Home Selling Team of Eastern CT. Please feel free to contact Marlene to find out more about the UNIQUE and successful marketing systems used by this award winning team of Realtors. To find real estate listings including homes for sale, search for properties from our agency AND from the MLS at www.dansperduto.com.

ERA REALTY PROs

170 Flanders Road ~ Niantic, CT 06357 ~ (860) 886-7000 x121

106 Westcott Road ~ Danielson, CT 06239 ~ (860) 779-1943 x121

Direct (860) 884-6169 ~ Fax (860) 691-5011

Copyright © 2008 Marlene Pellegrini, All Rights Reserved.

• The lighting up of City Hall of downtown Norwich, CT will take place on Friday, November 28, 2008. Santa will be there! This is a wonderful event to start off the holiday season. It also includes some old-fashioned holiday caroling. It all begins at 5 p.m.

• The annual Winterfest parade will take place on Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 1 p.m. sharp. This parade will start at the Chelsea Parade Grounds and will proceed through to downtown Norwich.

Hope to see you there at both events!!!!

For more information about events that will take place in the city of Norwich, CT please visit:

The Norwich Calendar of Events

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About the Author:

Marlene is a licensed Realtor for the Dan Sperduto Home Selling Team of Eastern CT. Please feel free to contact Marlene to find out more about the UNIQUE and successful marketing systems used by this award winning team of Realtors. To find real estate listings including homes for sale, search for properties from our agency AND from the MLS at www.dansperduto.com.

ERA REALTY PROs

170 Flanders Road ~ Niantic, CT 06357 ~ (860) 886-7000 x121

106 Westcott Road ~ Danielson, CT 06239 ~ (860) 779-1943 x121

Direct (860) 884-6169 ~ Fax (860) 691-5011

Copyright © By Marlene Pellegrini, All Rights Reserved.