Team Volunteers: Car Manufactuing in Dayton Ohio!

Our very own St. Leonard residents created and donated over 600 wooden cars to several local charities this Christmas. Catholic Social Services, Erma’s House, Greenmount, and Vineyard Church food pantries and refugee families were thrilled with these wonderful toys.

The idea for producing wooden toy cars for needy kids came from Toys For God’s Kids, a Colorado organization that was founded in 2000 and has shipped over 350,000 cars.

Vern Hine, Fred Pestian, and Pete Kostoff jumped at the opportunity to use this simple design to make a great number of kids in our area happy at the holidays.

St. Leonard is the only facility in Ohio making the cars, and all the supplies and labor have been entirely donated. Each car has “USA” burned into the rear bumper. The bottom has a stamp of our St. Leonard logo and website. The article in last Sunday’s Dayton Daily News has brought in additional donations of hard wood and tools.~Kate Quigley Volunteer Supervisor~