These hotels have no complaints about bugs – in fact, they can’t get enough. To celebrate Earth Day this year, we hosted the Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) and about 20 students from two Michigan high schools to build “bug hotels.” The hotels – crafted from pine cones, tree bark, bamboo canes and paper tubes –
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Category Archives: Community
FCA Community: Teaching Boys to Break Free from the Hashtag and Take Action
The old saying goes, it takes a village to raise a child. Unfortunately, Carlton Honey did not have a village growing up. His father worked four jobs and his mother was quite ill, and he made some poor decisions. A pastor and father to three now, Carlton spends his spare time building a village around
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What if your last day of school was also your last day of lunch?
Summers of racing down the sidewalks and playing kickball with friends do not exist for some kids. Some kids are hungry, tired, can’t focus and have no energy to play. Mostly because they don’t know where their next meal is coming from. On average, summer vacation is about 12 weeks between the last day of
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Make a break for Spring Fest 14
There aren’t many better ways to welcome the car club season than to join 2,000-plus modern muscle car owners and fans in southern California for the Spring Festival of LXs, popularly known at Spring Fest. This year’s event, the 14th annual sponsored by the SoCal LX club, is set for Saturday, March 23, at the Auto Club
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FCA Community: Crayon Donations Bring Joy to Children in Detroit Hospital
When their 5-year-old daughter Brooklyn came home with the idea to collect and donate crayons to the Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Morris and Rychee Brown jumped into action. “Brooklyn knows how the simple activity of coloring can bring real joy, and normalness, during long, tough stints in a hospital,” Morris Brown said, product development purchasing
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Be Color Brave
Several hundred FCA US employees were treated to an inspiring presentation by Mellody Hobson on February 12 as part of the FCA US monthlong observance of Black History Month, sponsored by the Fiat Chrysler African Ancestry Network. Mellody is a longtime proponent of the idea that in order to sustain success in the years ahead,
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Farther than man has ever gone before!
NASA fulfilled that long-held dream in December when contact was made with an object more than 4 billion miles from earth. Back here on earth … it’s all systems go as FIRST Robotics students from around the world set their sights on the 2019 FIRST Robotics Championships April 24-27 at Detroit’s Cobo Center. This year’s
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