Four Local Chrysler, Jeep(R) and Dodge Dealers and Chrysler LLC Representatives Team Up with KaBOOM! to Build New Child-Designed Playground at El Paso YMCA

EL PASO, Texas, Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- What: More than 250 volunteers from Dick Poe Chrysler Jeep(R); Dick Poe Dodge; Mack Massey Chrysler Jeep Dodge; Viva Dodge Chrysler Jeep; the YMCA Northeast Family Branch; The Chrysler Foundation; Chrysler Financial; organizers from KaBOOM! and residents of the local community will join forces on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008 to build a new and secure playground at the YMCA.

Why: The new playground will provide the children who frequent the YMCA with a great place to play. The new playground's design is based on drawings provided by students, who attended a Design Day event in June 2008. The playspace will be the tenth of 25 scheduled to be built this year by KaBOOM!, The Chrysler Foundation and Chrysler, Jeep or Dodge dealerships across the country to provide more than 70,000 children with a great place to play.

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: -- Bill Harry, Manager - Service and Parts, Southwest Business
Center, Chrysler LLC
-- Dick Poe, President - Dick Poe Motors
-- Agustin Vasquez, General Manager, Mack Massey Chrysler Jeep Dodge
-- Arnold Tavizon, General Manager, Viva Dodge Chrysler Jeep
-- Kevin Pearson, President & CEO - YMCA of El Paso
-- Eileen Karlsruher, Metropolitan Board of Directors Chair - YMCA of
El Paso
-- Bill Coon, Executive Director - YMCA Northeast Family Branch
-- Nanette Smejkal, Director - El Paso Parks and Recreation
Department
-- Lucio Glenn, Field Representative - Office of Congressman
Silvestre Reyes, 16th Congressional District of Texas
-- Approximately 250 volunteers from the local community

When: Thursday, August 21, 2008
8:30 a.m. MDT - Kick off and volunteer deployment
11 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. MDT - Best time to view playground under
construction
2:30 p.m. MDT - Ribbon-cutting ceremony to dedicate new play area
(Note: all times approximate)

Where: YMCA Northeast Family Branch
5509 Will Ruth Ave
El Paso, TX 79924

Visuals: -- Before and after shots of the site
-- Volunteers assembling brightly colored playground equipment
-- Volunteers hauling approximately 210 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

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Source: Chrysler LLC

CONTACT: Christina Biache of Chrysler, +1-248-512-9414 (office),
+1-586-243-1569 (cell), CB514@chrysler.com; or Mike Vietti of KaBOOM!,
+1-202-464-6076 (office), +1-202-327-0086 (cell), MVietti@kaboom.org

Web site: http://media.chrysler.com/
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