Tonight will be a special night at O’Reilly Raceway Park. There will be a USAC Midget and Silver Crown double header, PLUS a presentation by and for the Indiana State Police.
The Tony Stewart Foundation teamed up with Vest ‘N Police Dog Protection, www.vestnpdp.com, to provide customized bullet resistant and knife resistant vests for the dogs. Tony will present 30 of the vests to the ISP tonight. The photo of the K9 with a vest is from the Tony Stewart Foundation website, www.tonystewart.com.
An officer and his dog will demonstrate the vests and an attack on a perpetrator, who will be Tony’s sister, Natalie Repenning. And she volunteered to be the person attacked by the dog.
Say what you will about Tony – brash, outspoken, honest to a fault, speaks what’s on his mind and doesn’t care what you think. He may not care what I think, but I think inside, he’s a pretty good guy.
The TSF was also a sponsor and partner in the 2008 Mutt Strut at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in April. I’d been reading about that at www.IndyPaws.com. There are photos there from the Strut, too.
Tony’s mom, Pam, was grand marshal for the Strut and rode in the pace car ahead of the doggies. She waited at the start-finish line to personally greet all the walkers, quad- and bi-ped (4-footed and 2-footed). There were 3,500 people in the walk, which raised money for the Indianapolis Humane Society, www.indyhumane.org. Just pawesome!
The Tony Stewart Foundation raises and distributes funds to help care for chronically ill children, drivers injured in motorsports activities and other charitable groups protecting various animal species.
We all know how much money Smoke raises and gives to Victory Junction Gang Camp, but he does much more. He’s hosted Make A Wish kids in his Turn 2 Suite at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He’s built playgrounds with his sponsor Home Depot. The list just keeps going.
You can be a part of this giving heart with gifts to the Foundation. You can find out more about the Foundation at www.tonystewart.com.
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