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The Green High School Ensemble will be performing all of your favorite traditional holiday songs at Park Auto Group December 19th and 20th, 2011 from 11am to 2pm.  You won't want to miss this !!!

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Thank you to OGGA members, hounds and everyone else who stopped by to meet all of the wonderful greyhounds.

  

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Park Auto Group sponsored the Green High School Choir to perform 12-6-2011. They sang Holiday songs for the residents at The GreenView Inn in Uniontown.  The GreenView Inn at Town Center has chosen an Assisted Living concept founded on a common sense approach that embraces the highest of standards.  For 20 years this concept has proven to be extremely successful in surpassing the Residents' as well as their families' expectations.
http://www.greenviewinn.com

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Saturday December 10, 2011
11am-2pm
 
Ohio Greyhound Gathering and Adoption Inc. Will be at Park Subaru.
Ohio Greyhound Gathering and Adoption is a 501c (3)(C) not-for-profit corporation based in Canton and made up entirely of volunteers.  Since 2000 they have been rescuing greyhounds from racetracks when their racing careers are over so they won't be euthanized.  They take them to groomers, make sure their veterinary needs are met, and, place them in foster homes until their forever home is found.

Please join us for a fun day and help a greyhound find his/her forever home for Christmas.
 
Cash donations will also be greatly appreciated and go towards the costs of care of the rescued greyhounds.

Visit http://www.myogga.org   for more information on this wonderful rescue group.

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Sunday, September 11 · 10:00am - 4:00pm

Park is a Proud Sponsor!

HOT RODS, STREET RODS, CUSTOMS, CLASSICS, RACE CARS, TRACTORS, TRUCKS, MOTORCYCLES....

$10 Vehicle Participation Fee
Dash Palques to the first 400 Vehicles
Participants Choice Award and Sponsor Awards
Door Prize Drawings for Participants
Food and Product Vendors on site
Special Attractions and Live Entertainment
Silent Auction
Family Event-Includes Kids Activities
NO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
100% Blacktop Parking
Breakfast Beginning at 7am

For Additional Information
www.cantoncarnivalofwheels?.com
facebook: Canton Carnival of Wheels
or Contact Dick Zakrzweski at 330-837-3094

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Congratulations to Scott Pickering and Ken Williams JR. for their training achievements as Subaru Technical Specialists.



Pictured left to right
Scott Pickering - Technician
Dave Underwood - Subaru Of America DPSM
Dave Fischer - Park Subaru  Fixed Operations Director
Ken Williams Jr. - Technician

Casey is in the top 25 Sales Consultants in our zone. The top 25 are determined by new unit sales and customer satisfaction scores. Subaru Summit Peak Performer...Casey Glockner...there are 34 dealers in our Zone!!

Using an engine as the base for a table isn't new. Gearheads have been turning four, six, eight and even 12 cylinder mills into furniture for a long time. However, someone has taken the engine-table idea a step further though by affixing a glass top onto the flywheel and allowing the table to rotate. The fact that you can watch the pistons turn as it rotates only serves to up the cool factor.



The power source of choice for this application? An EJ25 workhorse from a Subaru.

Subaru of America, Inc. has announced that it would be returning to the RallyCar National Championship in the Open class with a 2-car program in 2011. Led by current Subaru Rally Team USA driver Dave Mirra and joined by British seasoned rally driver David Higgins; each driver will be piloting a Subaru WRX STI prepared and fielded by technical partner Vermont SportsCar.

As part of SRT USA's acclimatization program last week, Mirra joined new teammate Higgins for his first shakedown run of the 2011 Subaru Impreza WRX STI rally car at the team's proving grounds in upstate New York.

Higgins brings extensive rallying experience to SRT USA, most recently competing in the Chinese Rally Championship having gone on to help his team secure championship titles in 2004, 2007 and 2009. No stranger to the American rally circuit, Higgins claimed consecutive SCCA ProRally titles in 2002 and 2003 before returning to the UK and winning the 2004 British Rally National Championship. Notably, the 38 year-old driver has also won the Group N British Rally National title in 1997, 1999, and 2002. As a testament of his passion for the sport, Higgins and his family also operate a UK-based training facility, The Forest Experience Rally School.

Mirra is back and proving that he is a force to be reckoned with; earning rookie of the year honors in 2008 from Rally America, he is poised to have a breakout season with SRT USA. This year he achieved two podium finishes in three rounds of the inaugural RallyCar Rallycross series as well as a podium finish in the Rally America Olympus rally. Widely known as a pioneer in BMX Freestyle and the winningest X Games athlete in history, Mirra has his sights set on finding success as a rally competitor with Subaru.

Auto dealers keep planting in former farm fields in Green. The area along South Arlington Road and visible from Interstate 77 has grown from one dealer ? Doug Chevrolet ? to an ''auto mile'' in recent decades.

Dealers were already offering a host of brands: Buick-GMC, Hyundai, Lexus, Nissan and ? under the Park Auto Group ? Honda, Acura, Mazda and Subaru.

A used-car outlet ? VanDevere ? marks the strip with its giant American flag that catches the attention of drivers on I-77.

And soon, supersized dealer Spitzer will join the pack.

Spitzer plans to move its Akron Chrysler-Jeep-Dodge operation on Vernon Odom Boulevard in the Rolling Acres area to a yet-to-be constructed facility on Fortuna Drive, east of Arlington and across from the Lexus store.

Dealers say they welcome another competitor.

''The more the merrier,'' said Steve Toth, with Toth Buick-GMC.

When the Toth dealership built on Arlington in 1980-81, Toth said, there was little else but Doug Chevrolet (then called Thompson), an old bar, a Burger Chef (now site of a Burger King) and the former Clarkins discount store.

Now, customers are drawn to the strip, because ''they know they can go to one area and shop among a number of dealers,'' Toth said. ''It's very convenient.''

Toth said his father and dealership owner, Ed, initially thought about moving his Akron store to another suburban locale, in Fairlawn, but switched to Green.

''A lot of people thought he was kind of crazy to be building in 1980, '81 ? business was so bad,'' Toth said.

''But you could build a lot cheaper'' because of that era's economic downturn, he said.

Toth said his father ''could just see the growth, development was heading south.''

Green's population has jumped from fewer than 18,000 to more than 23,000 since 1990.

The southern Summit County retail development draws from many areas of Summit, as well as Stark County's northern communities ? many of which have seen significant growth ? noted Jason Bass, Park Auto Group's new car and finance director.

Park was an early arrival to the strip, relocating its Honda showroom from Canton in 1987. Honda marketers encouraged the move to the then-fledgling strip.

Over the past 20-plus years, Park has has become a dominant figure, creating a campus, of sorts, for sales of Hondas, Acuras, Mazdas and Subarus.

The Subaru sales began just last year, after Park bought the Subaru franchise from the former K.O. Subaru in Springfield Township.

K.O. owner Bruce Kaufman said last year that Subaru had been pushing him to move to a new site in the Green strip ? ''out there with all the new car dealers.''

Kaufman deemed the cost of a new store prohibitive and sold to Park.

A leader in Ohio

Across Arlington from Park's complex is Ron Marhofer Hyundai, which opened in 2005.

General Manager Scott Marhofer ? a son of Ron Marhofer ? boasts that the location is ''the No. 1 Hyundai store in Ohio.''

Next year, Spitzer plans to open its Chrysler-Jeep-Dodge dealership across from the Lexus store. The Lexus dealership opened about 10 years ago.

Jim Vella, chief operating officer for Spitzer, said when the dealership moves in, ''We'll attract even more people to the area. There's going to be more sales opportunities for everybody.''

Spitzer, headquartered in Elyria, bought the Green land in 2007. Chrysler ? wanting to consolidate its dealer network ? had worked with dealers to create what were called territories, giving Spitzer southern Summit County. The Green site was ideal, Vella said.

But the recession sidetracked construction.

Plans for the outlet hit another obstacle last year when Chrysler, after filing for bankruptcy, canceled Spitzer's Chrysler franchise in Summit County. Spitzer challenged the action, went through an arbitration, and got the franchise reinstated.

Now plans are on track to start building the Green facility by early next year and open in late spring.

The store will employ 50 people, with about half coming from the Akron dealership. The other 25 will be new jobs, the company has said.

Community partners

In addition to jobs, the dealers generate income and property taxes, as well as contribute to the community, such as Green's Veterans Memorial Park, noted Green Mayor Dick Norton.

He said he was pleased that one of the dealers ? the Fred Martin Auto Group ? bought a vacant building that housed a motorcycle-themed restaurant on Interstate Parkway, next to an area with movie theaters.

Norton said he's heard the dealer might try to sell the site to another restaurant operator or use it for sales of Nissan commercial vehicles. Fred Martin, a longtime Barberton dealer, moved its Nissan line to a new showroom on Arlington in 2004.

Adam Huff, a co-owner of Fred Martin, could not be reached for comment.

''It's a great acquisition,'' the mayor said. ''They bought it at an attractive price.''

He declined to reveal the price; a public record of the sale has yet to be filed.

Norton is not surprised that Martin would want to pick up more property in the area.

 

''There [are] 125,000 cars a day that go down I-77,'' he said.

Louis A. Vitantonio Jr., president of the Greater Cleveland Automobile Dealers' Association, said that with so many customers doing car-buying research on the Internet, ''Location is probably less important today than it was 10 years ago.''

But, he said, customers, ''still want to touch the vehicle and be able to drive it.''

In Green, he said, ''they can compare, contrast'' multiple manufacturers' vehicles

Park Auto Group participated in the Big Kids Derby Challenge on 5.23.2010 at Derby Downs in Akron in support of raising funds for the All American Soap Box Derby.

Check out these artist renderings of the proposed exterior of the building and grounds.  Construction is expected to get underway sometime in October of 2010.  Everyone at the dealership is looking forward to the exterior makeover to complement the recently updated interior.  We will keep you posted with any new drawings or photos.

Nitrogen is the only way to go, once you learn the facts.
Click here to watch the video on YouTube.

 

Cleveland Browns own legend Dan Fike, an avid dog lover, will be available to sign autographs and speak with all in attendance at the first annual "Go Orange & Brown for Animals Moonlight Golf Outing" sponsored by the Canton Browns Backers, Park Subaru, the Ditty family and many canine advocates in our community.

Please join us for the Go Orange & Brown for Animals Moonlight Golf Outing to benefit the ASPCA (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) and the Friends of the Pound of Stark County. Come howl at the moon with us on August 15, 2009. This event is brought to you by The Canton Browns Backer's and dog pound lovers everywhere.

We will have a great day of golf at the beautiful in Massilon, OH at The Legends of Massillon. www.thelegends.com. The event will include a 9-hole golf scramble played in the dark with illuminated pins, golfers and golf balls, food, drinks, auctions, raffles for great prizes, 50/50 drawings, games and awards following golf.

And if you just want to join us for some fun and support the cause, you can purchase tickets just for the food and drinks and watch all of the glowing that goes on! Registration, beverage service and contests and auctions begin at 6:00 PM. We will proceed with a shotgun start at 7:00 PM.

The cost is $40 per person and includes 9-holes of golf, dinner, appetizers, beverages and a gift bag including a glow ball, T-shirt and necklace. Reservations for dinner-only are $15 per person.

Click here for more information and to register.

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Join 98.1 WKDD for Akron/Canton's only interactive festival created just for kids. Kids and parents experience the thrill of learning as they are introduced to many topics including safety, health, sports, arts, dance, music, crafts, and much more. WKDD Kidz Day is the ultimate outdoor playground featuring activities and exhibits reserved just for fun! The goal of Kidz Day is to create an educational and entertaining environment where kids and parents can gain information on products and services with the emphasis on having quality family fun at an affordable price!

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THE SUBARU LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT PREVIEW EVENT

Get a special preview of the all-new
2010 SUBARU Outback and Legacy.

You will be one of a select few to have the unique opportunity to view and evaluate the all-new 2010 Subaru Outback and Legacy before they are officially launched to the public.

COME JOIN US AT
Park Subaru
Event Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Event Time: Arrive any time between 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
R.S.V.P. By: July 22, 2009 at subaru.com/parkpreview

- Food, drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be served to our guests.
- Receive a special gift compliments of Subaru for attending.
- As a thank you for attending, your next oil change will be on us!