2ND ANNUAL ROTARY CHARITY CAR SHOW & CONCOURS D’ ELEGANCE

SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2008

The Commerce City Rotary Club is sponsoring its 2nd Annual Charity Car Show and Concours d’Elegance and invites all makes and models to participate. This event is scheduled for Sunday, May 25, 2008 at Mile High Racing and Entertainment “The Dog Track” located at 6200 Dahlia Street in Commerce City. Vehicle placement and on-site registration will take place between 7:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. The show is open to spectators from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. with trophies and ribbon awards at 1:30 pm.

This event is one of a kind, since all vehicles from antique to classic, rods to sports, custom cars and trucks, motorcycles mild and wild, low riders and of course trikes are welcome. We invite car clubs to register; the club with the most vehicles in the show will receive recognition along with a Wall Plaque. All entries are only $10 and each vehicle receives a souvenir window card and dash plaque; these are collector items. Vehicles in the Concours will be judged in their respective class with 1st, 2nd and 3rd place awards presented. Five areas of overall Peoples Choice will also be presented with plaques as well as Best of Show. This year a special Car Corral will be added, where you will be able to make an offer on a car or show your car to sell as well.

The proceeds from the 2008 event will again benefit the Commerce City Rotary World Community Service (WCS) Children of the Christmas Island Project. Last year the charity car show judged over 90 vehicles and netted almost $6,000 for the WCS project.

Christmas Island is part of the Republic of Kiribati, an atoll located in the Central Pacific 1200 miles south of Hawaii at the intersection of the International Date Line and the Equator. Inhabitants of the island lack many things that we take for granted such as basic medical facilities, safe drinking water and basic educational materials including books, paper, pencils or chalk to teach children.

Commerce City Rotary has made a commitment to secure educational supplies and materials for the schools, plus safe water and medical needs for Kiritimati (Christmas) Island’s 7,000 residents. In 2007, Commerce City Rotary provided over $600,000 worth of much needed medical equipment and supplies to the island’s bare five-room hospital and three village clinics, a septic tank pumper truck, water project supplies and much needed education computers and materials.

The Club is now working in conjunction with the Suva East Club in Fiji to bring Rotary to the country, plusBiosand filter technology and bio-energy stove project production to the island. In addition, the Rotary is setting up four Visiting Doctor Clinics for dental, vision, pediatrics and OB-GYN.

How can you help make this event successful? Be a sponsor or a vendor. Enter your car, either to be judged, shown, or in the Car Corral for $10. And bring your family or friends for a mere $5 admission. To register or receive more information contact Tom Schrah @ 720-273-3057, tom@abtbody.com, or George & Sharon Maybee @ 303-655-9831, gkmaybee@aol.com.