MEADVILLE —
Don’t forget: Today’s the day you — and everyone else — can help a local outreach program get on the road to bringing more hands-on education about the region’s waterways to area students.
Allegheny College’s nonprofit Creek Connections has been selected as one of 500 nonprofit finalists — from more than 4,000 applications nationwide — in Toyota U.S.A.’s national “100 Cars for Good” program, through which the automaker is giving 100 cars to 100 nonprofit organizations nationwide over the course of 100 days.
For Creek Connections, the contest’s online voting day is today at Toyota’s 100carsforgood.com, where the local program will be profiled along with other finalists.
Local Toyota officials want everyone to know they’re here to help Creek Connections win — and to help voters make that happen. Allison Palmiero Brady, president and general manager of Palmiero Toyota Scion in Vernon Township, recently said anyone with questions on the voting process or the program in general may call the Meadville-based dealership directly today at 336-1061.
“We’re very excited” for the local nonprofit to have been named a 100 Cars finalist, Brady said recently. And now, she added, “obviously, the most important thing is they win. When you look at Creek Connections,” she added, it’s evident “they do great work for the community.”
Through hundreds of area school visits and other programs each year, Creek Connections allows participating students to learn about the region’s waterways’ biodiversity through inquiry-based activities that include retrieving water samples and conducting research to monitor conditions that affect water quality.
“A new vehicle would really enhance our ability to visit schools, deliver equipment and conduct stream studies with teachers and their students,” program manager Wendy Kedzierski said recently. “We hope everyone in the region will help us spread the word” and vote for the program.
You can vote
Allegheny College’s nonprofit Creek Connections is one of 500 nationwide finalists in Toyota U.S.A’s “100 Cars for Good” program, through which the automaker, by open-to-the-public vote, is giving 100 cars to 100 nonprofit organizations nationwide over the course of 100 days.
For Creek Connections — which provides hands-on learning about the region’s waterways through hundreds of area school visits each year — the contest’s online voting day is today at Toyota’s 100carsforgood.com (where the local program will be profiled along with other finalists).
More information on Creek Connections and its efforts to win one of the “100 Cars for Good” may also be found online at creekconnections.allegheny.edu.
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