NetShops, Inc. Donates Furniture for Deserving Family Featured on ABC's 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'

NetShops, Inc., a leader in online web retailing, today announced that the company has donated a large assortment of outdoor furniture to a deserving family that will be featured on ABC's hit series, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition."

The Tutwiler family has been hard hit by two separate incidents. Patrick Tutwiler, a U.S. soldier, was shot in the neck by an Iraqi sniper. The attack left Tutwiler with traumatic brain injury, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, memory loss and speech problems. Less than one year after his return home, Tutwiler's modest home was hit by an F4 tornado. Patrick and his wife, Crystal, pulled the family into a closet and used their bodies as human shields while the tornado tore the house apart. Patrick, Crystal, their four children and nephew were living on a nearby military base temporarily until Patrick was given his official military discharge. Due to Patrick's injuries and his current part-time employment, the family's finances can't afford to rebuild or purchase a new home. ABC-TV's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," which airs on Sunday nights at 8:00 p.m. ET, spent the week of Nov. 11th, 2008, building this dedicated soldier a safer and stronger place that the family can call home.

Omaha, Neb.-based NetShops, Inc. proudly contributed to the seven-day transformation of a new home for the Tutwiler family in Chapman, Kansas. NetShops, Inc. donated unique, quality outdoor patio furniture, including four rocking chairs, two matching side tables and one porch swing. The furniture will be used to refurbish the Tutwiler's outdoor porch and the town's damaged community safehouse, which will now double as a community center for the elderly.

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