Did Subaru Lakeland go above and beyond, provide exceptional service, or support causes that are important to you? We'd love to hear about it.
We are honored to be nationally recognized by Subaru of America, Inc. for our dedication to living the Subaru Love Promise.
We have been recognized for staying committed to our community using the principles of HEART: Honesty, Empathy, Appreciation, and Respect to earn your Trust.
Here at Subaru Lakeland, we love making a positive impact on the lives of all of our customers, employees, and neighbors. We thank you for your support.
The Subaru Love Promise® is our vision to show love and respect to all people at every interaction with Subaru. Subaru and our retailers believe every day gives us an opportunity to positively impact the world around us – by how we support each other, our customers, and our community. Together, we are committed to making the world a better place.
The Love Promise is what makes Subaru More Than a Car Company® and a Subaru retailer More Than a Car Dealer®. It sets a standard that we are committed to living every day.
At Subaru Lakeland, we believe in being a positive force in our community, not just with donations, but with actions that set an example for others to follow. We aim to make the world a better place through several key initiatives that help support and protect people, pets, and our planet:
Did Subaru Lakeland go above and beyond, provide exceptional service, or support causes that are important to you? We'd love to hear about it.
SUBMIT A STORYProviding comfort, hope, and confidence to children in urgent need
Subaru and its retailers partner with Operation Warm® to visit local homeless shelters and support agencies to provide children with brand-new necessities like coats, shoes, and socks.
These essential items not only help keep children protected, warm, and dry, they can also have a significant impact on a child’s mental and emotional well-being.
Through this partnership and other historical Subaru Loves to Help efforts, Subaru and retailers like us will have supported over 1 million children and adults in urgent need nationwide.
At Subaru, we believe what we leave behind is a reflection of who we are. That’s why Subaru and our retailers partner with the Arbor Day Foundation (TM) to provide and distribute 100,000 regionally appropriate trees across the country. We’re proud to establish the largest corporate tree distribution ever. Through this and other Subaru Loves the Earth initiatives, Subaru and our retailers have helped distribute and plant over 1.1 million trees.
Subaru believes we should all have a chance to lead a healthy life. That’s why for over 10 years, Subaru and its retailers like us have partnered with Blood Cancer United® and our local hospital to give warm blankets and encouraging messages of hope, written by our employees and customers, to support our community members living with cancer. Through our combined efforts during this partnership, we have supported over 550,000 cancer patients nationwide. Together, we are proud to be Blood Cancer United’s largest automotive donor.
Subaru and its retailers, like us, are continuing our support of education and high-needs schools in our communities through Subaru Loves Learning(R) by providing teachers across the country with funding to purchase the school supplies and resources they know are needed to help students thrive in the classroom. Through our partnership with AdoptAClassroom.org, Subaru and its retailers have supported more than 950,000 students nationwide and are proud to be their largest corporate supporter.
Subaru believes all pets deserve a loving home. That's why retailers like us partner with our local animal welfare organization every October to provide direct financial assistance through a grant distributed by the ASPCA® and host pet events to help animals find loving homes. Through our partnership with local and national organizations, Subaru has donated over $70 million, supporting the rescue, adoption, and health of over 700,000 animals. We're proud to be the largest corporate donor to the ASPCA.
Subaru and its retailers believe in giving back to our communities. That's why for every new vehicle sold or leased during the Subaru Share the Love event, Subaru and its retailers, like us, makes a donation to national charities that our owners care about and to over 2,700 local charities where Subaru owners live and work.
Now, after 17 years, Subaru and our retailers have donated nearly $320 million to charity all to give back and to make the world a better place.
Our Love Promise can be seen in various partnerships with local charities and non-profits. We are grateful for the opportunity, not only to be a part of our community but to serve it as well.
Humane Society of Polk County
Kids Pack|Florida Sheriff Youth Ranch
Highland City Elementary
Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation
Lakeland Regional - Hollis Cancer Center
Subaru and Subaru Lakeland believe in making a positive impact on the communities in which we live and work. We uphold that belief through our Love Promise Community Commitment. Every month, we select inspiring stories from customers and partners from around our area who strive to support our collective commitment and feature them here.
In honor of Subaru Loves the Earth and through our partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation, Subaru Lakeland distributed 100 trees to the community. Customers could choose between Live Oaks, Crepemyrtles, Bald Cypress, Shumard Oaks or Poplar Tulip trees and even got to enjoy a sweet ice cream treat for the road!
Subaru Lakeland Loves to Help! Each year, Subaru of America partners with Operation Warm to allow Subaru dealerships to provide coats and shoes to local children that need them the most. Through our local partnership with KidsPack, Subaru Lakeland was able to spend a wonderful day with some very deserving kids and provide them with beautiful new shoes, lunch from Chick Fil A and a visit from the ice cream truck!
October is Subaru Loves Pets month, and we celebrated in a BIG way! With the help of our Love Pets partner, The Humane Society of Polk County, five dogs found forever homes! Two didn't make a love connection, but Petey and Reese's are patiently waiting for you to come meet them. All dogs went home with adoption kits and Subaru Lakeland was happy to help with adoption fees! Petey and Reeses's are also eligible for reduced adoption fees and will also go home with a box of Subaru goodies! Adopters also enjoyed lunch from our food truck and lemonade stand! Subaru Lakeland Loes Pets!
Subaru Lakeland Loves Learning! We are proud sponsors of six classrooms at Highland City Elementary School and presented each "adopted" teacher a kit full of classroom supplies, a $500 shopping spree at Adoptaclassroom.org and all of the teachers enjoyed a yummy breakfast as a thank you for the important work they do every day!
Just before the start of school, sixty 3rd-5th grade science teachers from 20 Polk County schools came together at the Circle B Reserve to plan lessons for the upcoming school year. One fun activity they will be sharing with their students is making solar ovens! Subaru Lakeland was proud to support the day and provide lunch for all of the wonderful teachers as a thank you for all of the important work they do everyday. Subaru Lakeland Loves Learning!
Back in February, we partnered with the Florida Sheriff Youth Ranch and had a wonderful day with the children in their care. We shared a great lunch and delivered new shoes and socks provided by Operation Warm. Subaru Lakeland visited with the children at the Florida Sheriff Youth Ranch Summer Camp, and everyone went home with new shoes and socks for the start of the school year and some yummy Italian Ice! Subaru Lakeland Loves to Help!
Imagine having to go without a coat, shoes, or even socks. For millions of children and adults experiencing homelessness and other urgent need situations across the country, even here in Lakeland, this can be a harsh reality. Helping others is the key to a strong community which is why Subaru Lakeland believes in helping to support individuals and families in urgent need. This season, for our Subaru Loves to Help® initiative, we are partnering with Operation Warm®, a national nonprofit focused on connecting children with the resources they need to thrive. Through this partnership and other historical Subaru Loves to Help efforts, Subaru and retailers like us will have helped nearly 900,000 children and adults in urgent need so far. On 2/15/25, Subaru Lakeland partnered with Florida Sheriff Youth Ranch Safety Harbor and donated 120 shoes/socks to children in urgent need. These essential items not only help keep children protected, warm, and dry, it can have a significant impact on a child’s mental and emotional well-being.
Our Loves the Earth partner and Hometown Charity for Share the Love is the Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation. They help protect the endangered Florida Corridor, so wildlife and waterway pathways are not cut off due to expanding development. Subaru Lakeland sponsored their Corridor Connect event this year, which was held at Walt Disney World, which is actually part of the Florida Wildlife Corridor. This event brought together conservationists and those decision makers who care about the importance of protecting Florida's wildlife. Together with our other Myers Auto Group Subaru dealerships, and thanks to our wonderful customers, we presented the Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation with a check for almost $102,000 to help them in their mission of protecting Florida wildlife and waterways. Subaru Lakeland Loves the Earth!
To celebrate Subaru Loves the Earth, Subaru Lakeland teamed up with the Arbor Day Foundation to distribute 150 trees to the community. Prior to the event, our customers, community partners and friends were given a link to share and register for a tree of their choice that would flourish in the Lakeland area. Participants could choose between Crape Myrtles, Red Maples, Tuliptrees and Shumard Oaks. Everyone that registered came to the store on Saturday and left with a new tree, a Subaru Loves the Earth cupcake and lunch! All of the unclaimed trees were donated to Highland City Elementary School and The Humane Society of Polk County, Inc. Subaru Lakeland Loves the Earth!
Helping others is the key to a strong community, which is why Subaru Lakeland remains committed to their continued support of the children at the Florida Sheriff Youth Ranch. Throughout February, during Subaru Loves to Help month, Subaru Lakeland partnered with Operation Warm, a national nonprofit focused on connecting children with the resources they need to thrive. Working together with Operation Warm, Subaru Lakeland visited the Florida Sheriff Youth Ranch and provided more than 120 children with brand-new shoes and socks. Children attended the Subaru Loves to Help Gifting Event and were able to choose their own shoes and socks in a retail-like environment and enjoyed a special lunch and treats! The shoes were available in multiple colors and styles, allowing the children to pick ones that resonated with them the most. This summer, Subaru Lakeland will return to provide new shoes and socks to their summer campers to help them feel ready and confident to go back to school!
At the start of 2024, SPCA Florida announced a partnership with Sheriff Grady Judd and his Spay Neuter Initiative to help struggling pet owners access to low cost spay/neuter surgeries for their pets. “Unfortunately, many pet owners struggle to pay the price to sterilize their dogs and cats,” SPCA Florida Executive Director Shelley Thayer said in a statement. “To assist these qualified families, our goal is to drastically reduce the cost or provide no cost spay or neuter services.” The goal of the program was to provide 4000 surgeries which would greatly reduce the number of unwanted animals in shelters and the needless euthanasia of healthy animals due to lack of space. Subaru Lakeland wanted to help raise funds for such an important cause - so they donated a 2024 Subaru Outback so the SPCA could sell raffle tickets where 100% of the proceeds would go directly to help end the homeless pet problem. Tickets were sold over nine months and the Outback traveled around the community to help promote the importance spay and neutering pets. On December 19th, Subaru Lakeland hosted an adoption event with plenty of adoptable puppies and kittens and the official drawing for all of the eager ticket holders that packed the showroom. The Shelter Director announced that the ticket sales totaled $127,000 which allowed 3,757 pet owners low or no cost spay and neuter services. Sheriff Judd drew the winning ticket and was able to reach the winner by phone to deliver the amazing news! Subaru Lakeland Loves Pets!
Subaru Lakeland was proud to Fill A Forester for Polk County Animal Services with supplies they desperately needed. Unfortunately, Polk County has one of the highest euthanasia rates in the State of Florida. However, Sheriff Judd is working with local shelters through his Spay and Neuter Program. In fact, Subaru Lakeland provided a car that will be raffled off in December. The proceeds of the raffle ticket sales will exclusively benefit the spay neuter program and help minimize the number of unwanted animals in Polk County. Polk County Animal Services has been at capacity with both displaced animals and animals whose owners could no longer afford their care. We collected both food for the shelter and food for their Pet Pantry that is open to the public to help struggling owners feed their pets, so they are not forced to surrender them. Subaru Lakeland Loves Pets!
Just two weeks after being hit by Hurricane Milton, Subaru Lakeland celebrated October's Subaru Loves Pets ® Month by hosting an adoption event in our showroom. Our partner shelter, the Humane Society of Polk County, was at capacity with homeless animals. We are thrilled to say that the community "Made A Dog's Day" for almost all of the animals at the event! Eight dogs and a cat found loving homes within two hours! In addition, through Subaru's partnership with the ASPCA, Subaru Lakeland was able to provide the Humane Society of Polk County a $4000 grant to help them get homeless animals the care they need to be ready for their furever homes. All adopters also went home with Subaru Loves Pets New Pet Kits, and everyone went home with an ice cream treat, a BBQ lunch and a "Chewbaru" squeaky dog toy. Subaru Lakeland Loves Pets!
Subaru Loves Learning is an initiative by Subaru of America, aimed at supporting education and high-needs schools. Through this program, Subaru Lakeland provides funding and school supplies to teachers and students who need them. This year, we visited our partner school, Highland City Elementary School, and are proud to say that we adopted five classrooms. Each classroom is now equipped with the tools they need for a successful year! One of the key partnerships in this initiative is with AdoptAClassroom.org, which helps equip classrooms with the necessary supplies to enhance learning. Subaru has donated millions of dollars to support teachers and students, impacting over 750,000 students nationwide. They also promote science education by donating award-winning textbooks and fostering a love for STEM.
Subaru Lakeland Loves Learning! Subaru Lakeland is proud to partner with the Florida Sheriff Youth Ranch and the important work of providing a safe, loving family environment for children to grow up in. To start their school year right, we hosted a “Back to School Bash” complete with a huge waterslide, lunch, an ice cream truck and each child was able to pick out their own backpack and school supplies. It was a great day and they started the school year equipped for success and ready to learn!
It was the Dog (and Cat) Days of Summer this weekend at Subaru Lakeland! We welcomed so many animal and Subaru lovers to the store who enjoyed a BBQ and cooled down with a delicious ice cream treat! The Humane Society of Polk County, Inc. and SPCA Florida brought lots of adorable furry friends and we are thrilled to announce that five dogs and 2 kittens found forever homes! Subaru Lakeland Loves Pets!
The team from Subaru Lakeland visited the Hollis Cancer Center at Lakeland Regional Medical Center to visit with the patients in their care. Each year, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society partners with Subaru to provide blankets and care kits to patients fighting cancer. We were honored to visit with the patients at the Hollis Cancer Center and bring them comforting blankets that actually turn into heart shaped pillows and Patient Care Kits full of items to help pass the time during treatments. We also provided breakfast for all of the incredible nurses that care for these incredible patients. Subaru Lakeland Loves to Care!
In May, Subaru Lakeland hosted another successful adoption event for their Loves Pets partner, Humane Society of Polk County. Seven furbabies found their furever homes at the fun filled day that included lots of Subaru Gear giveaways, a raffle and a summertime BBQ lunch for everyone! Subaru Lakeland hosts quarterly adoption events in addition to October's Loves Pets Month and sponsors adoption specials at each one in hopes of connecting as many dogs and cats as possible with loving homes! #subarulovespets #adoptdontshop
For the 2023 Share the Love event, Subaru Lakeland chose the Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation as their Hometown Charity. We were pleased to present them with a check for $87,494.00 to help their mission of protecting and restoring the statewide network of lands and waters that supports wildlife and people. Over the last 14 years, through the Subaru Share the Love Event, Subaru of America Inc. and its participating retailers have donated more than $200 million to charity, with customers choosing between four national charities and over 1,610 hometown charities. Subaru South Tampa, Subaru North Orlando, and Subaru Lakeland have donated nearly $500,000 combined over the last few years alone.
This year, to celebrate Earth Day, the team from Subaru Lakeland joined in the restoration project at the Barbara Pedersen Wildlife Refuge in Lake Wales with the help of Polk Forever and our Share the Love Partner, Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation. We mulched the trailheads of the hiking paths, removed invasive vines from pine trees and other indigenous vegetation, used chainsaws to remove invasive trees and repositioned downed trees to provide habitats for woodpeckers, owls and insects. #subarulovestheearth
The team from Subaru Lakeland spent the day with the children who reside at the Florida Sheriff Youth Ranch. Youth Ranch Safety Harbor is home to sibling groups who need a place to grow up in a safe environment as a family. We were able to spend the day with these incredible kids- we had lunch together then everyone was able to choose a brand-new jacket. The staff at the ranch was then presented with enough jackets for every child in their care across the state. We are so grateful we had the opportunity to meet these wonderful, deserving young people. Subaru Loves to Help!
Braxton is 9-years-old and full of life! He may be non-verbal, but that doesn’t stop him from smiling and dancing when he hears his favorite music, or moving with joy when he’s surrounded by the people and experiences that he loves the most. Braxton is living with epilepsy, and for his wish, he wanted to have a huge car parade drive past his house! Wish mom Jessica thought it would be the perfect wish for Braxton, because he is at his happiest during the car parade she organizes each year for his birthday. The team at Make-A-Wish Central and Northern Florida thought that this could be the perfect wish to involve their contacts at Subaru Lakeland! Dave at Subaru was all in to ensure that Braxton had the best day possible. Not only did he have several cars participating in the parade, but he made the introduction between Make-A-Wish and the Lakeland Police Department. Knowing that Braxton loves lights and sirens, getting connected with the Lakeland Police Department helped make this the best day ever for Braxton! Lakeland Subaru helped make this car parade one of the largest that have driven past Braxton's house yet! To everyone at Lakeland Subaru, thank you for helping make Braxton’s wish come true! He truly had the best day ever, and we cannot thank you enough for your support in making it all happen!
The Make a Wish Foundation reached out to Subaru Lakeland to help coordinate a car parade for a little boy name Braxton that loves anything with wheels. Without hesitation, they not only committed to bring lots of Subarus, but reached out to local car groups in the community. Within a few days, everyone came together and gave Braxton a two-hour parade past his house complete with SWAT vehicles, fire trucks, motorcycles, K9 officers and even Santa! Subaru Lakeland Shares the Love!
As part of the Subaru Loves Learning® initiative, Subaru Lakeland purchased all of the books for the entire school year for Highland City Elementary's new book vending machine. Each student can earn tokens for classroom accomplishments, good behavior, and birthday celebrations and redeem them for a new book from the vending machine. In addition, ten teachers received shopping sprees at Adoptaclassroom.com Marketplace to help outfit their classrooms to be inspirational, learning environments for their students. Subaru Lakeland Loves to Learn!
The team from Subaru Lakeland delivered comfort to the patients receiving treatment at the Hollis Cancer Center at Lakeland Regional Health. Soft, plush blankets that doubled as pillows and patients care kits that contained comfort items like eye masks and hand lotion and activities like coloring books and word games to help pass the time during treatment were distributed. All of the items were made possible through Subaru's partnership with the The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society® (LLS). The team also visited with the nurses who care for these patients every day. Subaru Loves to Care®!
It was a beautiful day to Love the Earth! The Subaru Lakeland team and their families teamed up with the Polk County Parks and Recreation to plant a native species butterfly garden at the Circle B Reserve, an area of protected 1,267 acres. The garden was donated and planted by Subaru Lakeland as an example to visitors of how they can use native plants to attract butterflies, birds, bees and other pollinators to their own backyards.
Over the last 14 years through the Subaru Share the Love® Event, Subaru of America and its retailers have donated more than $227 million to national charities and over 1,700 hometown charities. Subaru Lakeland has supported kidsPACK through their local campaign, and in 2023, they received the Subaru Love Promise® Community Commitment Award! Will Kuhlman, Subaru Lakeland, presented kidsPACK with a check for $27,584.80 at our Gone Country for kidsPACK fundraiser in February 2023. These funds will go to support 68 students at Valley View Elementary, Scott Lake Elementary, Highlands Grove Elementary, and Phillip O’Brien for the entire 2023-2024 school year! This gift will ensure these students will have food on the weekends and holiday’s totaling over 25,024 meals that will be distributed throughout the year. #kidspackinc #endchildhunger #lkldhaven #lkldnow #laltoday #subarulakeland
Zeppelin came to us just after Christmas as his owner no longer wanted him. When he arrived he had unexplained scars on his head. Zeppe as we called him was a very sweet and affectionate boy with women and didn't trust a lot of men. With Zeppe being a 5 year old, bully breed, who did not care for men it made it difficult to find people who would adopt him. We decided to take Zeppe out of the Humane Society for our adoption event at Subaru Lakeland. This gave him a much needed break out of the shelter and made him visible to more people. What a great decision we made! It wasn't too long after we arrived at Subaru Lakeland that Sandie a potential adopter stopped by. She had lost her bully to illness back in November and was looking to fill the hole left in her heart. When she saw Zeppe she was very happy as he was the same coloring of her bully. Sandie asked to see him and spent time getting to know him. She walked him all around the dealership and out side and spent time brushing him. When Sandie sat down to pet him Zeppe sat right down on her foot pushing right up against her just like her beloved bully had done. It was then that she knew he was the one for her. Sandie's husband was at home and they didn't live too far away so we let Zeppe go home to do a meet and greet with her husband. When Zeppe got to the house he went right up to his new Dad placed his two front legs on his Dad's lap giving him the paw of approval! Let's be honest he also wanted to be petted! Sandie, her husband and Zeppe hopped back into their vehicle to show us how well things were going. Zeppe didn't want to come out of the vehicle he just wanted to go back home. We were able to say our good-byes and give him a few kisses too. Thank you to Subaru Lakeland for partnering with us to help Polk's Pets find their perfect match. This is truly a perfect love promise!
Lighthouse has been a source for homeless men, women, and children to find rescue and recovery since 1977. We could not serve the way we do if it were not for good people who come alongside us. Our local Lakeland Subaru dealership (A Myers Automotive Group Company) has "shared the love" with us for many years. They have helped through bringing the most requested item among the homeless, socks! They also brought hygiene bags for them as well. They didn't drop and run, no! This team of Subaru Lakeland leadership stayed to help us feed and serve the homeless men and women. They looked into the eyes of men and women who are not used to making eye contact and let them know they were not forgotten. Kudos to the Lakeland Subaru team for making Share the Love more than a television commercial. You truly do share the love and bring hope. And a little hope can change everything! Mike G. Williams, Lighthouse Ministries, Lakeland, FL
Do you believe in love at first sight? We sure do after our adoption event at Lakeland Subaru this year. As soon as we pulled up we were greeted by people looking to add a new member to their families. I had no idea how moving our first adoption would be. Connie came to us looking for a dog to fill the void from the recent loss of her dog. Connie was out of town when Hurricane Ian hit our area. Her son had the sad task of letting her know that her sweet little Chihuahua had suffered a life ending heart attack. When we brought Shenzi out to meet her and her husband it was love at first sight. Connie immediately began to tear up as little Shenzi could have been a twin of the baby she had just lost. Shenzi didn't disappoint either. She began to cuddle and snuggle right in and it was as if she was meant just for this family. While we were doing the adoption paperwork Shenzi was showering her new daddy with kisses and those ever so sweet Chihuahua eyes. That wouldn't be the end of the excitement of the day. We were reunited by a visit with one of our babies who was adopted at this same location last year! Bean was looking for a playmate and we had the perfect match and her name is Belle! We are so very thankful for our partnership with Subaru and their willingness to Share the Love with our pets and organization. Because of their support we were able to find over 50 pets homes during this event! If you are looking for love, you just might find love at first sight at our next event!
Proving that Love can be shared and make a difference, in April 2022, kidsPACK received for the fourth year in a row, a generous donation from the Subaru Share the Love Campaign! Totaling more than $31,000; this donation will sponsor one of the neediest schools in Polk County, FL – Jesse Keen Elementary throughout the 2022-2023 School Year. Jesse Keen is rated at the bottom 50% in the Polk County School District statistics: Math proficiency is only at 35% and Reading is at 27% placing this school in the lower quadrant in overall test scores. In the previous school year, the need for weekend food for their students was 75. That means that 75 students were showing signs of starvation and did not know where their next meal would come from after the free breakfast and lunch each Public School provides Monday – Friday. This year, Subaru will completely cover the cost for all 75 students which will supply them with an annual non-descript backpack and 9 snacks, a spoon, and a juice each week for 46 weeks! Each Friday, these students will be given the meal package that slips into their backpack to take home which ensure they have meals to eat over the weekend. Lisa M. Gill, Title 1 Parent & Family Engagement at Jesse Keen Elementary wrote “Due to kidsPACK, last year we were able to improve our student attendance ratio for students on the program who knew they would have food for the holiday’s and weekends!” “With the Subaru Share the Love Sponsorship, 75 of our students will be able to be put on the program at the beginning of the school year and are ensured food for the entire year!” “Battling child hunger is now being addressed at the school level and it because of Subaru Share the Love and Lakeland Subaru that we expect our attendance rates to improve, and student achievement and gains can be made.”
I have an 11-year-old who is a self-proclaimed SUBIE GIRL. For her birthday I thought it would be nice for her to actually visit a Subaru dealership. I called LAKELAND SUBARU a few days in advanced to ask if it were possible and explained that my daughter was on the spectrum and her love for cars, especially Subaru. I also asked if they had any ink pens or sticky note pad with Subaru written on it for her. To my surprise they agreed and were happy to accommodate her. On my daughter’s birthday my heart was filled with joy. Will Kuhlman and staff went over and above my expectations. The care and love they put towards my daughter is greatly appreciated. To some this may not be much, but for us this actually made my daughter’s dream come true. She was able to take a picture in front of her favorite Subaru with a picture she drew of it, which so happened to be the same color. Thank you Will Kulman and staff for making my child say this is the best birthday ever! HERE is her note: I love the people at Subaru, they are very very nice! The workers are very polite and gave me a bag of stuff that I really like. I went there on my birthday to see the WRX and the other cars. The workers let me see all of the cars, and also gave me a book of the WRX. I would go there EVERY day just for the workers!
AmeriCorps Polk Reads, one of the key programs at the Polk Education Foundation, had limited funds this year for summer reading supplies. AmeriCorps Polk Reads is a reading tutoring program for struggling kindergarten – third grade readers at select schools in Polk County. Tutors provide (3) 30-minute, one-on-one tutoring sessions per week to over 460 students who are behind in reading. Tutors are free of charge to the families and schools. Sessions take place during the school day at the student’s schools. These sessions target the five components of effective reading instruction (phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development, reading fluency and reading comprehension strategies) and work to move students up in their reading levels. The goal is to provide reading support to struggling students helping them read on grade level. Participating students are provided summer learning packets and grade appropriate books to practice reading over the summer. This year, with a limited budget, the program coordinator was not able to provide backpacks for summer learning materials. Will Kuhlman at Subaru Lakeland stepped up to the plate! He provided 450 Subaru drawstring backpacks to send summer reading materials home with students. What a blessing for these students. This made summer learning supplies a little more fun for students and gave them a place to keep their materials and new books. Thank you so much Will Kuhlman and Subaru Lakeland for meeting this need.
Lighthouse Ministries serves the poor and at-risk communities of west-central Florida, by providing meals, shelter, recovery programs, and homeless intervention. We are so thankful for our friends and partners at Subaru Lakeland, that is of course Danny and Linda Cannon, and their manager Will Kuhlman. Today they delivered two AMAZING checks to help feed the hungry this holiday season along with 80 blankets and 100 pairs of socks. Socks are the number one request among the homeless. We are so thankful for a business that truly cares about the community, and has for many years. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Steve TurbevilleCEO, Lighthouse Ministries www.LighthouseMin.org
Every year we make new friends and extended family members by participating in the Subaru Loves Pets event. This year was very special for us by helping a long time member of the Humane Society of Polk County find another pet. This family recently had suffered the passing of their Schnauzer dog they had adopted from us 16 years ago. The family saw the ad for the Subaru Loves Pets event and called to see if we by any chance had a Schnauzer in, they were thrilled to hear that we did. Kanai came to us because his owner could no longer care for him. When the family came in to meet him they fell immediately in love with him and it was the perfect match! We also made a new member to our Humane Society family when a woman who had recently moved to the area from another state came by Subaru Lakeland. When she moved to Florida she had to leave her beloved family pet with the rest of her family and was heart broken. When she got to Subaru Lakeland she was almost in tears when I saw met Mia a Corgi/Chihuahua mix puppy who looked almost like a twin of the dog she had to leave behind. Needless to say it was love at first sight and a very special adoption for us all to celebrate!
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