Big Country Ford to Help Project Graduations with DRIVE ONE 4 UR SCHOOL Event October 5th

September 4, 2013 at 2:15 am brownwoodnewsstaff

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For the third year in a row, Big Country Ford Lincoln is teaming up with Ford Motor Company and Brown County Project Graduations for DRIVE ONE 4 UR SCHOOL event. On October 5th, area residents can earn money for their local school’s project graduation just for coming to Commerce Square in Brownwood and test driving a new Ford car or truck. With each test drive, Ford Motor Company will donate $20.00 to a local school to go toward their project graduation.

Thomas Scull, General Manager of Big Country Ford said, “This is our third year to offer this program to our schools. The past two years have been extremely successful and we believe this year will be the best yet. Anytime we can help our seniors have a safe and fun graduation night, we’re all aboard.”

The event will run from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m., and any driver 18 years and older can come take a test drive in anything from a Ford Fiesta to an F250.

Area schools participating will be Brownwood, Early, Bangs, May and Zephyr. Each school will have other fundraising efforts going on at the event, with all the proceeds from their sales and the test drives going to help fund their graduation night events.

“It takes a lot of money and effort to put on these graduation night events for the schools,” Scull said. “This is our way of helping to keep our young people in a drug and alcohol free, safe environment on graduation night. We hope everyone in our community will join us at this event to help our local kids.”

This DRIVE ONE 4 UR SCHOOL event has raised over $10,000 for project graduation the past two years for our area schools. To date, Ford dealerships and local communities across the United States have helped raise more than $16 million dollars for high schools thanks to their hard work and partnership with the DRIVE ONE 4 UR SCHOOL program.

Pictured above (in no particular order) are seniors from area high schools: Adam Tipton-Brownwood HS; Savana Rosenbusch and Destiny Walker-Bangs HS; Megan Portnajmer, Kelcie Roberson, Ryan Paskewitz, and Karina Rincon-Zephyr HS; and Lacy Cox-May HS.