Sooden arrives home, whisked away from welcomers

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She said the government had supported Mr Sooden's family throughout his ordeal, and "I'm sure we'd wish those services to be available to Hameet Sooden too".

Mr Sooden's sister Preety Brewer was delighted to see her brother arrive home.

"I'm very thrilled to see him again after the most difficult and longest four months of my life," Mrs Brewer told One News.

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Contractors come to aid of soldier’s family

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That was my husband’s life for a couple of months.” The plan to renovate the house got sidetracked last spring when Alex, a sergeant in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard, learned that his unit, the 28th Division’s 828th Supply Co., would be sent for training in July and then deployed to Iraq.

With Alex unavailable to work on the house, the Rohenas found themselves stuck with two hefty payments each month — one on the Willow Street property and their monthly rent at Webster Manor.

Although she has a good job as a customer representative for Comcast, Evelyn Rohena said, the bills were too much to handle while waiting for Alex’s expected return this September.

In a desperate attempt to solve their predicament, Evelyn contacted the producers of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” a popular TV show, but that didn’t pan out because the show doesn’t renovate homes in Pennsylvania.

The couple then turned to the Lebanon County Housing and Redevelopment Authority in hopes of securing a low-interest loan so they could hire a contractor to do the work, only to learn that their income exceeded eligibility requirements.

Undeterred in Alex’s absence, Evelyn took a more traditional route by contacting banks for a loan and trying to find a contractor to do the work.

But she ran into trouble when she learned that the cost of the renovations, about $40,000, would exceed the amount banks were willing to loan...

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