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« on: Apr 14th, 2005, 8:46am »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
'Makeover' just in time for Navajo veterans  
Old office facing budget cuts; crews start on new one
 
Mark Shaffer
Republic Flagstaff Bureau
Apr. 14, 2005 12:00 AM  
 
TUBA CITY - When Marcia Edgewater's husband, Raymond, died from exposure on a Flagstaff street last year, she turned to the local Veterans Affairs Office for burial help.
 
All the financially strapped agency could pay for was a 21-gun salute.
 
So, Edgewater, whose husband served in Vietnam, and the hundreds of other veterans and their families were overjoyed when they found out this week that the ABC program Extreme Makeover: Home Edition would be donating a new veterans center to this western Navajo regional center because it was home to the late Iraqi war hero Lori Piestewa.  
 
 
A crew of 300 workers began putting up the 2,000-square-foot building Wednesday afternoon as its foundation dried, in anticipation of its dedication next Monday after a parade. An additional 1,300 volunteers are building a home north of Flagstaff during the next five days for Piestewa's parents and her two children. The ABC television crew decided on the Arizona projects after receiving a nomination from Jessica Lynch, Lori Piestewa's best friend.
 
The new veterans office will be only part of the 5-acre park dedicated to the war veterans of the Navajo Nation. The Navajos are known for their World War II code talkers, who used coded messages in their own language that the Japanese could never break.
 
Navajo tribal officials said a memorial, along the same lines of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, will be constructed in the park with the names of tribal veterans killed in foreign wars. Five poles will bear the flags of the United States, Arizona, Navajo Nation, America's disabled veterans, and one representing those missing and killed in action.
 
Nearby, the ground also was being cleared Wednesday for a traditional Navajo dwelling, a hogan, which will be used for healing ceremonies, primarily for veterans.
 
This is the second time in two months that ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition has chosen an Arizona location. The first was a 5,500 square foot home in Gilbert, the home of Kassandra Okvath, an 8-year-old leukemia patient, and her parents, Nicole and Brian Okvath, and five siblings.
 
Traditional religious leaders from the Navajo, Hopi and San Manuel Band of Mission Indians will conduct a blessing ceremony at the Piestewa home site this morning. Crews will begin excavating the site today; the Piestewa episode is scheduled to air as the season finale May 22.
 
The Tuba City memorial and office space couldn't come a moment too soon for the Western Navajo Veterans' Affairs Office, which has been operating on a shoestring and a prayer in recent years.
 
Until last summer, the office had been located in two tiny dormitory rooms at Tuba City's Greyhills High School. The veterans were moved out when the Navajo Housing Authority offered the veterans office temporary residence in a small rental home.
 
Meanwhile, employees of the veterans office are sweating an anticipated 10 percent budget cut for fiscal 2006, which begins Oct. 1
 
Not that there was much of anything to cut. The office only has a budget of about $140,000 annually to provide financial assistance for the enrolled 1,033 veterans within their programs, said Brenda Donald, who maintains the office's financial records.
 
That money goes primarily to help veterans pay for heating costs, home construction materials, travel costs to Veterans Administration centers in Prescott and Phoenix and to pay medicine men for ceremonies, Donald said.
 
No one knows the dollar shortages better than former Vietnam Marine combat engineer Phillip Multine, son of a Navajo code talker.  
 
On this day, Multine is at the center trying to get help finding a birth and death certificate for his father, Oscar Multine, who he said froze to death under a foot of snow behind an Albuquerque convenience store in the late 1990s.
 
"I've also been trying to get financial help here so I can have a cleansing ceremony, a blessing way, but I've been waiting two months," Phillip Multine said.  
 
"I hope all this help the TV program is providing works its way to all of us."
 
 
 
Reach the reporter at [email protected] or (602) 444-8057.
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« Reply #1 on: Apr 14th, 2005, 2:57pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
I really enjoy this show, personally.  They just filmed an episode here in Kansas City the other day that hasn't aired yet.
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This is the second one here inn Arizona. Personally I think it's great that they are doing something in honor of Lori Piestawa.
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« Reply #3 on: Apr 15th, 2005, 5:11pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
This show is so awesome. The fact that they are helping people in need is really touching. And sometimes they give away scholarships and stuff to the kids. It really is a great show.  
 
PS: Ty is pretty good-looking too!
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I love this show too....
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