Chrysler Financial – News
June 11, 2008
Contact:
Kevin McCormick
Chrysler
(248) 512-6218 (office)
(248) 613-5427 (cell)
klm15@chrysler.com
Christina Biache
Chrysler
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(586) 243-1569 (cell)
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Mike Vietti
KaBOOM!
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(202) 327-0086 (cell)
MVietti@kaboom.org
Designed By Kids, Built By Volunteers: Chrysler LLC Representatives and Chicago Area Dealers Team Up With KaBOOM! to Build New Playground at Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview School District 89
CHICAGO -
What: More than 200 volunteers from the Chicagoland Chrysler, Jeep® and Dodge Dealers; The Chrysler Foundation; Chrysler Financial; Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview School District 89; organizers from KaBOOM! and residents of the community will join forces on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 to build a new and secure playground at Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview Building Field.
Why: The new playground will annually provide more than 7,500 children in the community with a safe and enjoyable place to play. The new playground's design is based on drawings provided by children who attended a Design Day event in May 2008.
The playspace is the third of 25 scheduled to be built by KaBOOM!, The Chrysler Foundation, Chrysler Financial and Chrysler, Jeep or Dodge dealerships across the country to provide more than 12,000 children with a great place to play each year. The playspace is also one of more than 225 builds KaBOOM! will lead across the country in 2008, in an effort to provide an enjoyable place to play within walking distance of every child in America.
Who:
- Lewis Scott, Director – Midwest Business Center, Chrysler LLC
- Peter Guthrie, Director – Midwest Business Center, Chrysler Financial
- Rich Ruscitti, President – Chicago Metro Dodge Dealer Advertising Association and Dealer Principal – South Chicago Dodge Chrysler Jeep
- Dan Feeny, President – Chicago Metro Chrysler Jeep Dealer Advertising Association and President – Feeny Chrysler Jeep Dodge
- Grady Rivers, Jr., School Board President – Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview School District 89
- Thea Perkins, Ed.S., Interim Superintendent – Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview School District 89
- Approximately 200 volunteers from the local community
When:
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
8:30 a.m. CDT – Kick off and volunteer deployment
11 a.m. - 1 p.m. CDT – Best time to view playground under construction
3 p.m. CDT – Ribbon-cutting ceremony to dedicate new play area
(Note: all times approximate)
Where:
Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview School District 89 Building Field
1204 Van Buren
Maywood, IL 60153
Visuals:
- Before and after shots of the site
- Volunteers assembling brightly colored playground equipment
- Volunteers hauling approximately 175 cubic yards of mulch by hand in tarps
- Volunteers mixing approximately 20,000 lbs of concrete by hand in wheelbarrows
- Ribbon-cutting ceremony to dedicate the playground