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Greg Zipadelli joins volunteers from The Home
Depot and Joe Gibbs Racing to build new racing-themed KaBOOM!
playground in Fontana
- National Racing to Play Program Builds New
Playground with Inland Empire United Way -
WHAT: Greg Zipadelli, crew chief of the #20 Home Depot
Racing Team, along with volunteers from The Home Depot, Joe
Gibbs Racing, KaBOOM!, Inland Empire United Way’s Hands On
Inland Empire initiative, and members of the Fontana community
are joining forces to build a racing-themed playground in just
one day at North Tamarind Park. The playground is part of The
Home Depot’s Racing to Play program that is aimed at making a
lasting, positive impression in the lives of children who live
in NASCAR race communities.
The playground’s design is based on drawings by children who
live in the community. North Tamarind Park is centrally located
in the community, and its current playground equipment is more
than 25 years old and does not meet safety standards for daily
use. Inland Empire United Way (IEUW)’s Hands On Inland Empire
initiative strengthens volunteer impact in the community through
programs, partnerships and services. IEUW helps disadvantaged
kids succeed in school, provides easy access to social services
and develops volunteer opportunities to create positive change.
IEUW serves more than 7,300 children each year.
WHO: Greg Zipadelli, crew chief, #20 Home Depot Racing
Team
Joe Gibbs Racing Crew Members
175 The Home Depot Associates
WHERE: North Tamarind Park
8025 Tamarind Ave.
Fontana, CA 92336
WHEN: Aug. 30, 2007
8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Volunteers build playground
10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Best viewing of near complete project
2 p.m. Board-cutting ceremony to open the new playground
BACKGROUND: The Home Depot’s Racing to Play program is an
initiative designed to make a lasting, positive impression in
the lives of at-risk children who live in NASCAR race
communities. The program will build 10 racing-themed KaBOOM!
playgrounds in 2007 and is a partnership between The Home Depot,
Joe Gibbs Racing, and KaBOOM!, a national non-profit
organization whose vision is to create a great place to play
within walking distance of every child in America. In the
program’s first two years, more than 4,400 volunteers donated
approximately 33,300 hours of service to build 20 Racing to Play
playgrounds that have impacted the lives of more than 11,000
children in race markets across the country.
Racing to Play is part of The Home Depot’s $25 million
commitment to KaBOOM! to create and refurbish 1,000 playspaces
in 1,000 days. As a founding partner of KaBOOM!, The Home Depot
provides financial support, materials and numerous volunteers
and is part of its ongoing commitment to give back to the
communities its stores serve. By the end of 2007, The Home Depot
will have built and funded more than 1,000 KaBOOM! play space
projects.
CONTACT: For more information, please contact:
Bryant Fairley, Inland
Empire United Way (Hands On Inland Empire)
(909) 980-2857 ext. 233
Sarah Molinari,
The Home Depot
(770) 384-5504
Megan McGovern,
Manning Selvage & Lee
(404) 870-6852
Inland Empire United Way / Hands On Inland Empire Initiative
Inland Empire United Way (IEUW)’s Hands On Inland Empire
initiative empowers people to make volunteering a part of their
lives and strengthens volunteer impact in the community through
programs, partnerships and services. IEUW helps disadvantaged
kids succeed, provides easy access to services, encourages safe
environments for infants and toddlers, and develops volunteer
opportunities to create positive change. Learn more at
www.ieuw.org.
www.ieuw.org
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