Edd Rogers goes to bat for youth leagues

Local car dealership Edd Rogers Automotive of McMinnville is teaming up with the McMinnville Little League this season to help aid the McMinnville Little League programs.

In the spirit of community collaboration and teamwork, which is taught through youth sports, Edd Rogers Automotive McMinnville has developed a partnership with the local the McMinnville Little League through the Chevy Youth Baseball program, which will include both monetary and equipment donations during the 2008 little league season.

Now in its third year, the Chevy Youth Baseball program is an initiative that establishes a positive relationship between local dealers and the communities they serve.

Edd Rogers Automotive partnered with the local little league program because of the league’s proximity to the dealership. Over the course of the season Edd Rogers Automotive will donate team equipment kits, which include bags, baseballs, ball buckets and T-shirts.

Through the Chevy Youth Baseball program they will also help donate a Chevy Tahoe SUV, which will be raffled off by participating teams, including the McMinnville Little League.

Tickets for the raffle will be available this week and can be purchased from local youth baseball coaches, commissioners of the leagues and at the McMinnville Civic Center. Tickets will be $5 each with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the McMinnville Little League.

‘This is a wonderful opportunity for our little league programs,’ said director of Parks and Recreation Carlene Brown. ‘Edd Rogers has done a lot of work to get involved in this program and we are very have someone like this who cares so much about our youth and community. The money raised through the ticket sales from the Chevy Tahoe will help buy some much needed equipment and their has been some discussion of using the money to help put lights on the Pete Holt field, but that will be up to the commissioners to vote on.’

In addition to the donation of equipment and the money raised from the ticket sales, the program also will give the McMinnville Little League programs the unique experience of participating in baseball clinics and other activities led by the Nashville Sounds staff.

‘We are looking forward to a great season with the McMinnville Little League that will be filled with exciting games and an enhanced experience for the teams through the equipment donations, baseball clinics and other program components,’ said Eddie Rogers of Edd Rogers Automotive McMinnville.

‘Chevy Youth Baseball is just one example of how committed out dealership is to supporting the youth and families in the McMinnville community.’