January 26, 2009 - 4:52 PM

VICTORVILLE • This spring a Victor Valley resident’s family will  appear on international television, as the recipient of a new home on ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.”

But first, the house has to be built.

More than 100 area construction industry workers gathered Monday in the sanctuary of High Desert Church in Victorville in a combination of pep rally and recruitment drive by the reality show’s production team.

“What I love about this show is everybody thinks this show is about the house,” Executive Producer Conrad Ricketts told the builders, plumbers, framers and others in attendance. “This show is about more than a house. It’s about what we believe in.”

Who will be receiving the new home — the show’s 140th such renovation — won’t be known until Saturday morning, when the show’s host, Ty Pennington, tells the family that they’ve been selected. The house will be unveiled Feb. 7.

Even as Victor Valley construction workers signed up to volunteer in the church’s lobby following the pep rally, several local companies had already signed on: Murphy Home Construction and Steeno Design Studio, both based in Hesperia, have been involved in planning the renovation since December.

The Baldy View Chapter of the Building Industry Association of Southern California is recruiting additional volunteers. Producers are still looking for wallpaper hangers, carpenters with furniture-making experience, home-goods and drywall installers and more.

“After the house you build yourself with your own two hands, this is the most important house you’ll ever build,” Ricketts said.

For information or to volunteer, visit www.BIABuild.com.

To learn more about Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, read Tuesday's edition of the Daily Press. To subscribe call 241-7755 or click here.

Beau Yarbrough may be reached at 956-7108 or at beau@HesperiaStar.com.