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When you tune into “Extreme Makeover Home Edition” on ABC, feel-good moments are expected. But when the national show comes to your community and hundreds of local businesses pitch in with time, talent and resources to make dreams come true for your neighbors – the positive vibes last long after Ty Pennington moves the bus.

Horry County, which surrounds Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, has welcomed Extreme Makeover Home Edition twice. In 2007, Renee Wilson and her four grandchildren went from living in a 12-by-60-foot mobile home to a 3,500 square-foot house. Three years later, the Suggs family said goodbye to their 1,000-squarefoot home and moved their large family into 3,500-square feet of living space. Both of these amazing transformations culminated over the course of a week and couldn’t have been completed without the hard work and generosity of hundreds of community volunteers, sponsors and businesses.

This life-changing work doesn’t go unnoticed by the family on the receiving end of all the generosity.

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The Crown Jewel of the Grand Strand, which stretches from Georgetown, South Carolina, to Calabash, North Carolina, Myrtle Beach sits in the center of a 60-mile crescent of beautiful beaches. For years, the area’s tranquil qualities have drawn tourists from around the world and have made Myrtle Beach one of the top retirement destinations in the country.

Myrtle Beach got its name from the indigenous wax myrtle shrub that thrives in the area’s sandy soil. The first documented landing in the area was in 1526 by the Spanish sailing out of Hispaniola. However, the conquistadors did not find the area to their liking and left shortly thereafter, preferring the more southern latitudes of Florida for their base of operations.

Myrtle Beach is rapidly becoming the entertainment center of the East Coast…

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