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Contact:
Matt King (414) 343-7634
matt.king@harley-davidson.com FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE SCREAMIN'
EAGLE RACERS SPEND TIME OFF WITH Racers
Helped Launch Fueling Young Minds Summer Program
MILWAUKEE
(June 15, 2007) – The entire Screamin' Eagle Harley-Davidson Racing
team spent two days in Milwaukee visiting area children, promoting a
free meals program and hanging out with Harley-Davidson employees. All
of the racers first went to Spurred
by a $125,000 grant from the Harley-Davidson Foundation, the
award-winning Fueling Young Minds summer meals program will feed meals
to low-income children at more than 200 Screamin'
Eagle drag racers Andrew Hines and Eddie Krawiec were joined by AMA Flat
Track champion Kenny Coolbeth and his Wrecking Crew teammates, Jared
Mees, Joe Kopp and Bryan Smith. "The
kids are so important and I feel lucky that our Screamin' Eagle team is
in a position to help bring awareness to a great program,"
three-time NHRA POWERade Pro Stock Motorcycle champion Andrew Hines
said. "We won the race on Sunday (in The
Screamin' Eagle team went to Milwaukee Children's hospital once lunch at
Bethune was finished. The racers signed autographs, handed out gift bags
and just chatted with the kids who were well enough to come to a
visiting room. Kopp,
father of 11-year-old Garrett and 2-year-old Kody, said the visit to the
Children's Hospital just made him want to spend even more time with his
own kids. "I
really enjoyed the hospital visit because I have two sons of my own and
it means a lot to be able to help kids," Kopp said. "It hurts
a lot to see them because you don't want any child to be hurt, ill or
suffer any pain. It hit home because I'm a parent and it just makes me
want to get home and give my sons a hug. I'm so glad we got to visit the
hospital and hopefully it brightened a few faces." Harley-Davidson
Racing Manager Anne Paluso said the Screamin' Eagle racers were the
perfect spokesman to encourage kids to take part in the Fueling Young
Minds program and put smiles on the faces of hospitalized children. "We
are very fortunate in the way that we have not only some of the most
talented riders in each series, but we have genuinely caring people who
want to do what they can to help promote worthy causes," Paluso
said. "When they walked into the room, all eyes were on the racers.
Our guys are basically kids at heart, so the kids felt comfortable,
there were lots of smiles and our team had a great time sitting down and
chatting with all of the children." Coolbeth,
Mees and Hines have each won a race in their respective categories
already this season. Smith, Kopp and Krawiec are ready to join that list
of 2007 winners. Before they went back to work, however, Kopp said it
was nice to spend some time with the team in a non-competitive
environment. "It's
been a good time being able to hang out with my teammates outside of the
competitive racing arena," Kopp said. "We don't get a chance
to do that very often. It was also great to finally be in The
NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle class gets back to racing action next weekend
at the ProCare Rx NHRA SuperNationals at Screamin’
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