Actor Dick Van Dyke is taking steps to save his Danville childhood home, which was slated for demolition. News stories about the threat to the home reached the 89-year-old actor last summer. He announced over the weekend that the home will be restored as headquarters for a new foundation to provide scholarships to accomplished young performers. Organizers of the Dick Van Dyke Foundation hope to establish a museum in the home where Van Dyke and brother Jerry lived during high school after relocating from Missouri. After learning of the house's dilapidated state, the star of ``Mary Poppins'' and television's ``The Dick Van Dyke Show'' recalled the ``happy memories drifting around in there'' in a tweet to his tens of thousands of followers.