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This is posted in relation to the other thread titled: http://www.nitromater.com/threads/drag-racing-getting-dinged-in-the-media-again.39503/
This was posted today Tuesday.
http://www.keyt.com/news/Students-in-DRAGG-Program-Present-Fixed-Up-Car-To-Single-Mom/37783198
OXNARD, Calif. -
An innovative after school program is teaching at-risk-youth the importance of giving back to their community.
This week Oxnard’s DRAGG Program helped light up the face of a single mother.
“As a single mother it is hard working and financially paying bills,” said Vanessa Ramirez.
Vanessa Ramirez recently had a minor accident.
“I was driving into a gas station and made kind of a short turn and crashed into the poll,” said Ramirez.
That small mistake, left the front end of her car a mess, after a conversation with her insurance company she found out this problem would be coming out of her pocket. That’s when she started getting estimates and met Jose Revels of Commercial Auto Body in Oxnard.
“He told me it was going to be 600 and I was like wow I don’t have that type of money,” said Ramirez.
“The problem was that she is a single mom and didn’t have money to pay it so she broke into tears,” said Revels.
Revels then thought of how he could help Miss Ramirez out, and that’s when he thought of presenting the idea of fixing up her car to the students at DRAGG.
“So when I told the kids about this incident they volunteered to work on the car and fix the car knowing that she is a single mom and also that she works for special needs kids it was a good reason,” said Revels.
“It was a sure thing we were like yes, lets be a part of it lets fix it and get her back on the road and it was a great experience for everybody,” said Sargent Daniel Shrubb one of the Oxnard Police Department officers that started the DRAGG program.
The DRAGG acronym stands for, drag racing against graffiti and gangs. It is an innovative afterschool program created by Oxnard police officers with a goal of getting at risk youth off the streets.
“We kind of target around the junior senior years of their high school days and bring them to a program that is automotive based and give them a skill set in that industry,” said Shrubb.
Within a week, the DRAGG students were able to fix up Ramirez’s car, and she can’t thank them enough for their help.
“I’m grateful and to me it was a blessing and to me I am very thankful to those kids that helped me,” said Ramirez.
http://www.draggteam.org/
This was posted today Tuesday.
http://www.keyt.com/news/Students-in-DRAGG-Program-Present-Fixed-Up-Car-To-Single-Mom/37783198
OXNARD, Calif. -
An innovative after school program is teaching at-risk-youth the importance of giving back to their community.
This week Oxnard’s DRAGG Program helped light up the face of a single mother.
“As a single mother it is hard working and financially paying bills,” said Vanessa Ramirez.
Vanessa Ramirez recently had a minor accident.
“I was driving into a gas station and made kind of a short turn and crashed into the poll,” said Ramirez.
That small mistake, left the front end of her car a mess, after a conversation with her insurance company she found out this problem would be coming out of her pocket. That’s when she started getting estimates and met Jose Revels of Commercial Auto Body in Oxnard.
“He told me it was going to be 600 and I was like wow I don’t have that type of money,” said Ramirez.
“The problem was that she is a single mom and didn’t have money to pay it so she broke into tears,” said Revels.
Revels then thought of how he could help Miss Ramirez out, and that’s when he thought of presenting the idea of fixing up her car to the students at DRAGG.
“So when I told the kids about this incident they volunteered to work on the car and fix the car knowing that she is a single mom and also that she works for special needs kids it was a good reason,” said Revels.
“It was a sure thing we were like yes, lets be a part of it lets fix it and get her back on the road and it was a great experience for everybody,” said Sargent Daniel Shrubb one of the Oxnard Police Department officers that started the DRAGG program.
The DRAGG acronym stands for, drag racing against graffiti and gangs. It is an innovative afterschool program created by Oxnard police officers with a goal of getting at risk youth off the streets.
“We kind of target around the junior senior years of their high school days and bring them to a program that is automotive based and give them a skill set in that industry,” said Shrubb.
Within a week, the DRAGG students were able to fix up Ramirez’s car, and she can’t thank them enough for their help.
“I’m grateful and to me it was a blessing and to me I am very thankful to those kids that helped me,” said Ramirez.
http://www.draggteam.org/
