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Letter to the Editor
Monday December 13
A-coat Select National Benevolence Program Participants Donate Vehicles
Mike’s Auto Body, in Concord, California, is one of more than 50 shops across the nation this December that will be presenting a “new” used vehicle to a deserving individual this holiday season.Mike’s Auto Body has joined with other members of the A-coat select organization to form the A-coat Select National Benevolence Program. The Benevolence program is a community relations program whose mission is to present refurbished “new” used cars to deserving individuals or organizations during the holiday season. Last year the group targeted a single week in December for the car give-away, to gain more recognition of the program and to increase the number of participants. This year the group is giving away twice as many cars with more than double the number of participants. More than 50 cars will be given away nationwide during the week of December 13, 2004.
Mike's Auto Body will present cars to two deserving individuals from the bay area. Both single mothers, one with three children and the other with six children plus one grandchild, will each be presented with a 1998 van. Each of these women, who have full time jobs, have been without reliable transportation for some time.
What is unique about this program is that it is not just a Mike’s Auto Body effort but a community one also. Everything is donated. The vans were donated by Mercury Insurance and AAA Insurance of Northern California. Parts were donated by W/C Ford and W/C Chrysler. Mechanical inspections, safety checks, and tires were donated by Big O Tires. All told, more than 15 Local East Bay companies and over 50 people worked to get the two vans back in running condition. In addition, the body and paint technicians from Mike’s Auto Body donate their time and talents.
“We are very fortunate to be involved with such a wonderful program and are very excited to be able to give back to the community that has supported us for the past 32 years. This is our fourth year participating with the program and this will be the ninth vehicle we will be able to present to an individual, family and/or organization that is truly in need of reliable transportation. Repairing the vehicles is the easy part. With so many people in need, picking the recipient is always the hardest part,” owner Mike Rose commented.
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