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"Green Up Day" occurs statewide on the first Saturday of May each year. Subaru of New England is continuing its sponsorship of the event again this year and Twin City Subaru is proud to be one of several Vermont area dealerships participating in Green Up Day.

As part of its sponsorship Subaru New England provides each dealership with a large Casella waste dumpster on site for Green Up Day. It is then up to each Subaru dealership to support the event in their community.

We are proud to be a state-wide sponsor for the Vermont series of Relay for Life events and to participate as a team in the 2014 Nordic Style and 2015 Central Vermont Relay for Life.

These life-changing events give us a chance to celebrate the lives of people who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost, raise funds and awareness, and fight back against the disease. Each year, more than 4 million people in over 20 countries raise much-needed funds and awareness to save lives from cancer through the Relay For Life movement.

Over the past eight years, through "Share the Love," Subaru has donated a total of nearly $70 million to a variety of national and local charities.

In 2013 Subaru added the option of having a 'Hometown Charity'. Each year thousands of Vermonters and their children struggle with hunger. That's why for the past nine years and again in 2021 the Vermont Foodbank will be Twin City Subaru's Hometown Charity.

Twin City Subaru is proud of its continued support of the Central Vermont Humane Society and their annual Walk for Animals.

The Central Vermont Humane Society shelters and adopts domestic dogs, cats, and small animals such as rabbits and guinea pigs. They offer dog training classes, community clinics for low-cost rabies vaccinations and microchips, and education to animal guardians. CVHS also works to prevent and address animal cruelty and neglect, and supports legislative efforts to protect animals in Vermont. CVHS's humane education programs for kids include Humane Heroes kids club as well as a popular summer camp.

For the past 39 years, Prevent Child Abuse Vermont (PCAV) has been working to protect the health and happiness of children in our community. Our board members, volunteers, and staff strive to prevent child abuse by supporting healthy relationships between children and the people who care for them. Programs like Circle of Parents™, The Nurturing Parenting Program®, The Shaken Baby Syndrome Prevention Program, and The Sexual Abuse Free Environment for Teens Program™ (SAFE-T™) have helped Vermont see a 48% decrease in cases of substantiated abuse since 1990.

Vermont has become a national model for child abuse prevention, but there is still much work to be done. Over 800 Vermont children are abused or neglected each year. We need to unite as a statewide community to ensure a safe, nurturing environment for every child growing up in Vermont.

ALS IS A PROGRESSIVE NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE THAT AFFECTS NERVE CELLS IN THE BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD. ALS usually strikes people between the ages of 40 and 70, and approximately 20,000 people in the U.S. have the disease at any given time. Although there is not yet a cure or treatment that halts ALS, scientists we fund through our global research program have made significant progress in understanding what causes ALS. But their work is not done, together we can we work towards a cure and that's why we are proud to be a presenting sponsor of the Jeremy R. Williams ALS Golf Classic.

The Williams Family has been hosting the JRW ALS Golf Classic at New England's only Championship Executive Golf Course, The Links at Lang Farm in Essex, VT, since 2018. Their son, Jeremy fought a battle with ALS starting in January 2013 and lost that battle in September 2015. Jeremy showed his family and everyone he came in contact with the true meaning of strength, humility and how to really smile! Every year the Williams Family continues his fight by helping to raise awareness through fundraising for the ALS Association by hosting this annual event.

In the first three years of hosting the tournament the William's Family has raised over $70,000 in the fight against ALS. 802 Cars/Twin City Subaru are proud to be a Presenting Sponsor for this event and will continue to support it until a cure is found.

In a show of support to 802 Toyota General Manager, Roger Williams and his family, Dave Birmingham, owner of 802Cars.com, has donated $10,000 to Team Williams. Jeremy, Roger's son, has ALS and for the past three years Roger, his wife Theresa, friends and family have participated as a part of 'Team Williams' in the 'Walk to Defeat ALS' Northern New England Chapter's Vermont Walk.

Last year 'Team Williams' raised $4,500, this year their goal was $5,000. The $10,000 donation from 802Cars.com vaulted them well over their original goal. Currently they have raised $12,275 and are hoping to surpass their new goal of $15,000 to help reach the overall Vermont Walk goal of $75,000.

For the past several years Twin City Subaru along with fellow 802Cars.com store, 802 Toyota, have hosted the Central Vermont Stuff-A-Truck Food And Funds Drive organized by 1071 Frank-fm, Froggy 100.9 and 105.7 The Beat. 

All food and donations received during Stuff-A-Truck directly benefit the Central Vermont Salvation Army Emergency Food Shelf. Each year the goal is to completely stuff a Bellavance tractor trailer with canned goods and  other non-perishable food items. Over the past 15 years, this food and funds drive has collected 200 tons of food and $150,000 in donations for local less fortunate families in the Central Vermont Community.

The 802 Drive for Charity started as a vision of Twin City Subaru owner, Dave Birmingham, as a way to give back the local community and have one lucky winner drive away in a new car! That vision became a reality in 2015.

Starting in May and running through November 20th participants were able to purchase $5 raffle tickets for the chance to win a new car! There was no limit on the number of tickets (chances to win) a participant could purchase, so there was no limit on the amount of money that could be raised. By the time of the drawing on December 1st over $50,000 was raised for the Vermont Foodbank!