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Free2B! Receives Grant From Sam’s Club for all the Volunteer Hours

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Free2B! started the new year with car repairs and a vehicle give away. Sam’s Club of Fridley was the sponsor of the Free2B! Car Care Saturday at Victory Auto Service and Glass in Fridley. Sam’s Club also supplied pizza for the people having their cars repaired and the volunteer mechanics repairing the cars. Three cars [...]

Taste of Blaine – Coming Feb. 16, 2012

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This is Free2B!’s seventh annual Taste of Blaine at the National Sports Center (Schwan Center) in Blaine on Thursday, February 16, 2012 from 4:30 pm to 8:00 pm.  Tickets are $35 each before the event or $45 each at the door. Over thirty restaurants will fill the Schwan Center at the National Sports Center with exquisite [...]

Cars, Bikes and Trike Spell Happiness

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Free cars, six bikes and a trike made two families and seven children very happy.  Jackie Riddle of Circle Pines who is raising three grandchildren received a 1994 Chevy Blazer from Free2B! and three bikes from the Robert and Wilma Burbach Bike Foundation.  The boys were just amazed at the three bikes they received. Jackie [...]

Epiphany Catholic Church Makes Free2B! Work

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Epiphany Catholic Church sponsored the recent Free2B! Car Care Saturday at Victory Auto Service and Glass in Fridley.  As a sponsor, Epiphany provided $2,500 to Free2B! to help cover the cost of the repairs.  Free2B! currently has openings for sponsors for both Car Care Saturdays in December.  Scott Schulte, owner of Hi Ten Service Center [...]

Fall Festival – Ended with Success

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Fall Festival – Best Party by a Dam Site Over 200 people enjoyed the Free2B! Fall Festival at the Coon Rapids Dam on September 15, 2011.  One of the attendees said that the highlight of the event was seeing someone get a donated car from Free2B!  Watch a video of the car being given away [...]

Ultra Tech Repairs 20th Free2B! Car

Rachel Slepica with Ultra Tech owner Don Sibbelweb

Ultra Tech Automotive just completed repairing the twentieth vehicle as a One-a-Month repair shop for Free2B!   Ultra Tech Automotive began repairing cars for Free2B! in 2007 by volunteering their labor.  The total value of the donated labor to Free2B! is $12,470.10. Recently, Don Sibbel repaired a 1996 Honda Accord that was then donated to Rachel [...]

PJW Automotive Helps Free2B!

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PJW Automotive of New Brighton is one of the twenty businesses that help Free2B! by providing either free labor for repair or a free service for Free2B!  They are called a Free2B! One-a Month shop.  In 2010, these auto-related businesses provided $47,766.58 in free services to Free2B!.  By this activity, the entire community does their [...]

Free2B! Provides a Silver Lining for Six

Chuck Kempf, Holly Lee and Sue Kempfweb

At the recent Free2B! Car Care Saturday at Victory Auto Service and Glass in Ham Lake, six recipients were blessed with car repairs or a donated car.  All three donated cars were silver but all six people had their transportation barriers covered with a silver lining thanks to the great community support. Holly Lee from [...]

Free2B! recipient of Eleven Who Care Donation – Jeff Matt (owner Victory Auto Service & Glass) Eleven Who Care Winner

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Free2B! recipient of Eleven Who Care Donation – Jeff Matt owner Victory Auto Service & Glass - Eleven Who Care Winner Jeff Matt, owner of Victory Auto Service & Glass and Free2B! Board member received the 2011 Eleven Who Care Award. Jeff named Free2B! to be the recipient of the donation.  To see the story on [...]

Nine Families Helped with Transportation Barriers

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St. Paul’s Catholic Church of Ham Lake frees nine families from transportation barriers by sponsoring a Free2B! Car Care Saturday at Victory Auto Service and Glass in Fridley.  Five families received donated cars and four families had their cars repaired by the Free2B! volunteers.  A 1996 Chevrolet Lumina had some body damage that was repaired [...]