Injured soldier getting new home

CENTENNIAL - Volunteers spent the day Saturday getting a new home ready for a soldier injured in Iraq last December.

The non-profit Sentinels of Freedom, a California-based organization designed to care for veterans injured in combat, is providing a house for the Newland family.

Staff Sgt. Ian Newland was injured in Baghdad in December when an insurgent threw a grenade into his Humvee. Shrapnel injured his face, both arms, right hip, both legs and right knee. There are still several pieces of shrapnel lodged inside him.

Newland and his wife Erin, and their two children, 5-year-old Haley and 3-year-old Dryden, will see their new home for the first time on Monday.

Saturday volunteers spent the day cleaning, putting together furniture and doing some last minute painting.

"You get into it and just get lost because it's such a good reason to paint," said Joann Foss, National Operations Manager for Sentinels of Freedom.

"It's the least that I can do to say thank you for an incredible man that sacrificed a lot for our country to defend people that he doesn't even know," said volunteer Tiffani Garcia.

Foss says this is the first home that Sentinels of Freedom has assisted with in Colorado. They have provided homes for families in California and in Phoenix.

Click here to learn more about Sentinels of Freedom.