{"id":24765,"date":"2012-05-25T05:53:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T10:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=24765"},"modified":"2012-05-25T06:42:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T11:42:56","slug":"drive-one-4-ur-school-donates-to-cview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/05\/25\/drive-one-4-ur-school-donates-to-cview\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive One 4 UR School donates to C&#8217;view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CONVOY &#8212; StateWide Ford Lincoln, Crestview High School and members of the local community raised $4,600 for Crestview\u2019s Knight Pride Club at a recent test-drive event, as part of Ford Motor Company\u2019s \u201cDrive One 4 UR School\u201d program.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24767\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24767\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Drive-One-4-UR-School-donation-5-2012.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24767 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Drive-One-4-UR-School-donation-5-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shown are Crestview Middle School Principal Dave Bowen, Deb Ray, Kole Rolsten, Brittany Longwell and Steve Munroe of StateWide Ford Lincoln. (photo submitted)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>More than 230 area residents test-drove a Ford vehicle at Crestview High School on April 21, and Statewide Ford Lincoln and Ford Motor Company donated $20 per test-drive, with funds going to the Knight Pride Club to support student programs.<\/p>\n<p>Since the program\u2019s inception in 2007, the Drive One 4 UR School program has generated over $9 million in donations for high schools nationwide.\u00a0 The money raised during these events has helped ensure that extracurricular activities like sports and music programs continue in local communities despite budgetary constraints and funding cuts.<\/p>\n<p>StateWide Ford Lincoln has now held six of these events. Two each at Van Wert, Lincolnview and Crestview High Schools with the total amount raised over $30,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled that so many people come out from the community to support these \u2018Drive One\u2019 events,\u201d said Steve Munroe, StateWide general manager. \u201cParticipants have the chance to take a fun, casual drive in one of our new products while lending the schools a helping hand.\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONVOY &#8212; StateWide Ford Lincoln, Crestview High School and members of the local community raised $4,600 for Crestview\u2019s Knight Pride Club at a recent test-drive event, as part of Ford Motor Company\u2019s \u201cDrive One 4 UR School\u201d program. More than 230 area residents test-drove a Ford vehicle at Crestview High School on April 21, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 12:28:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}