OLD TOWN – A CBS News film crew was in the area this week to report a story on Sonya Barclay, an Old Town woman who has terminal breast cancer and whose family was the recipient of a new house built by more than 25 businesses and around 400 volunteers from the community.

The piece is expected to air Friday evening on “Assignment America,” a regular Friday feature that likely will be shown at about 6:54 p.m. during the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.

Reporter Steve Hartman, along with a producer and a cameraman, met Monday with the Barclay family – Sonya, her husband, Jeff, and their four children. The crew was expected to spend Tuesday in the area interviewing people involved with the story.

Barclay was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004 and it has since spread throughout her body. Three of her friends, Jen Dudley, Brandi Folsom and Lana Phillips, coordinated an effort last month to replace the family’s dilapidated trailer on Bennoch Road with a new house. The home was built in less than two weeks and unveiled to the family May 27.

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