Clark Turner Day in Port Deposit: An “Extreme” Win-Win Situation
January 21, 2008
A good thing happened recently in Port Deposit.
I know that sounds far-fetched (I mean, previously, the best thing that ever happened to Port Deposit was getting mentioned on four separate instances by Ripley’s “Believe it Or Not”), but when ABC’s popular Extreme Makeover: Home Edition television show rolls into town it’s hard to get things wrong.
But they nearly did this time.
In mid-October the cast and crew of the show, which takes disadvantaged, underprivileged and otherwise down-on-their-luck families and heaps upon them a new mansion filled with untold riches, rolled into Cecil County to visit Freedom Hills Therapeutic Riding Program.
For a quarter-century the Luther family has operated its non-profit program, which offers horseback rides as a type of therapy for people with physical and developmental problems. Things took a turn for the worse about a half-year ago when family patriarch, Carl Luther, died leaving the rest of the family - mother Renee, son Alex and daughter Ellie - to keep the program alive and keep the bills paid. That’s where Extreme Makeover swooped in and saved the day. Sort of. Continue reading Clark Turner Day in Port Deposit: An “Extreme” Win-Win Situation
