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Big O Tires presents $65,000 to American Red Cross.


Franchise Appreciation Day attendees from Big O Tires took a little side trip away from Capitol Capitol, seat of the U.S. Congress
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 Hill during their visit to Washington, D.C. in September. They dropped by the bustling bus·tle 1  
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To move or cause to move energetically and busily.

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Excited and often noisy activity; a stir.
 headquarters of the American Red Cross American Red Cross: see Red Cross.  and presented a check for $65,000 to the agency to aid in hurricane relief.

Funded by donations from Big O's 560-plus franchisees, the corporate entity and parent company TBC tbc abbr (= to be confirmed) → por confirmar

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 Corp., the check was handed over by Lagrange, Ky. franchisee Greg Kimberlin, chairman of the company's Franchise Advisory Council.

"All of us who work in the Big O Tires system were deeply moved by the difficult circumstances our citizens experienced from the effects of Hurricane Katrina Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. ," Kimberlin said. "We support the efforts of the American Red Cross as they work to improve the lives of those who have literally lost everything."

Karen Ogden, development officer of disaster fundraising for the American Red Cross accepted the check at their national headquarters.
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Title Annotation:SPECIAL REPORT: FRANCHISE APPRECIATION DAY 2005; hurricane relief aid
Publication:Franchising World
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Nov 1, 2005
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