Hampton Roads Chrysler, Jeep(R) and Dodge Dealers, Chrysler LLC Representatives and the City of Norfolk Team Up with KaBOOM! to Build New Child-Designed Playground at Denby Park

- Employees from several Hampton Roads Chrysler Jeep(R) and Dodge Dealerships spearhead effort to provide a safe place for neighborhood children to play - Playground launches the revitalization of Denby Park, providing children and families in the neighborhood with a secure, safe place to gather and play


AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Aug. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 250 volunteers,
including employees from local Chrysler Jeep(R) and Dodge Dealers, The
Chrysler Foundation; the City of Norfolk; Chrysler LLC, Chrysler Financial;
organizers from KaBOOM! and residents of the Norfolk community joined forces
today, to build a new and secure playground at Denby Park.


The new playground is meant to help revitalize the Denby Park
neighborhood, giving thousands of children and their families a great and
enjoyable place to play.


"Playgrounds provide children with a sense of freedom and develops their
skills of exploration," said Bill Shepard, CEO, Greenbrier Chrysler Jeep and
President of the Hampton Roads Chrysler Jeep and Dodge Dealer Advertising
Association. "The Chrysler Jeep and Dodge dealers of Hampton Roads are proud
to participate in the building of this play structure that will attract
children and families back to Denby Park."


Planning for the playground began at a Design Day event held in July 2008.
Local children and community leaders met with organizers from KaBOOM! and
Chrysler to develop their "dream" playground. The children's drawings were
used to create the final playground design.


"Thanks to the generous support of the project's sponsors, the children of
the Denby Park will now have a close and convenient playground to call their
own," said Norfolk Mayor Paul D. Fraim


The project is the tenth of 25 playgrounds scheduled to be built across
the country this year by KaBOOM!, The Chrysler Foundation, and Chrysler, Jeep
or Dodge dealerships. The playground is also one of more than 225 builds
KaBOOM! will lead across the country in 2008, in an effort to provide an
enjoyable place to play within walking distance of every child in America.



The Chrysler Foundation


The Chrysler Foundation is the primary source of charitable grants made by
Chrysler LLC. The Foundation annually supports hundreds of charitable
organizations with an emphasis on community growth and enrichment, arts and
culture, education, and youth development programs throughout the United
States and, increasingly, the world. The Foundation's Good Neighbor, Good
Citizen(R) programs make a positive, lasting investment in local communities
where our employees, customers and neighbors live. Visit
www.thechryslerfoundation.com.



KaBOOM!


KaBOOM! is a national non-profit organization that envisions a great place
to play within walking distance of every child in America. Since 1995, KaBOOM!
has used its innovative community-build model to bring together business and
community interests to construct more than 1,400 new playgrounds, skate parks,
sports fields and ice rinks across North America. KaBOOM! also offers a
variety of resources, including an online community, regional and national
trainings, grants, publications and the KaBOOM! National Campaign for Play,
which includes Playful City USA and the Playmaker Network -- a national
network of individual advocates for play. Headquartered in Washington, D.C.,
KaBOOM! also has offices in Chicago and San Mateo, Calif. For more
information, visit www.kaboom.org.



SOURCE  Chrysler LLC