Chrysler, Dodge and Dodge Ram Challenge Winner Build New Child Designed Playground

Despite the hard times, getting together for a good cause in the eyes of a child is something that two car giants and a competition winner have done to make a new child-designed playground in one day. More than 1,100 children who attend the Boys & Girls Club of San Fernando Valley got a great new place to play thanks to the efforts of Robert Nowaczyk, a Los Angeles County firefighter and winner of the Dodge Ram Challenge.

Dodge donated the new playspace in honor of Nowaczyk who won the Ram Challenge, a real-life, high-energy product attribute demonstration pitting American icons against one another on an obstacle course built in the rough California terrain. Teams of firemen, cowboys, military personnel and contractors were each given a stock 2009 Dodge Ram Crew 1500 to compete against one another in four races and elimination rounds to determine which team could out tough and outsmart the competition.

As the ultimate winner, Nowaczyk won a 2009 Dodge Ram 1500 truck in addition to the playground. Nowaczyk selected the Boys & Girls Club of San Fernando Valley as the recipient of the community-built playground because the club did not have outdoor playground equipment for the hundreds of children it annually serves.

Throughout the day, volunteers hauled more than 61,560 square feet of mulch — enough to cover 12 regulation-sized basketball courts — by hand in tarps; mixed approximately 14,880 pounds of concrete — equal to the weight of nearly four Dodge Challengers — by hand in wheelbarrows; and assembled brightly colored playground equipment to bring the new play area to life.

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