Test Drive a Mustang, Earn Money for the Mustangs

MHS Football Coach Rico Dello Iacono with captains Alec Finn and Nick Murphy with a Ford Mustang on the team’s home field. Drive one on September 24 at Hormel Stadium and raise $20 for the team and band, courtesy Sentry Ford Lincoln Mercury of Medford.

When the Mustang football team takes the field against BC High for their first home game on Friday, September 24, their will also be (Ford) Mustangs outside Hormel Stadium available for a test drive.

Ford Motor Company and Sentry Ford Lincoln Mercury of Medford are partnering to help raise money for the MHS football team and band as part of Ford’s Drive One 4 UR School program.

Members of the local Medford community will have the opportunity to raise up to $6,000 for the football program by test-driving a 2011 Ford, Lincoln or Mercury vehicle outside of Hormel Stadium between 3:00PM and 9:00PM. Twenty dollars is donated for each test drive.

“We’re excited to help raise money for Medford High School and at the same time introduce parents, teenagers and other drivers to our high quality lineup and innovative safety technologies,” said Brian McGrath, General Manager at Sentry Ford Lincoln Mercury. “We know it is important that students continue to have opportunities to participate in extracurricular activities, and that’s why over the past several years it has been a privilege to help support these important programs.”

Since the start of Ford’s Drive One 4 UR School program in 2007, over 173,000 people have helped raise more than $3.3 million for close to 700 high schools across the country, according to information released by the car company.

Each test drive will be five minutes long. Test drives are only open to licensed drivers eighteen and older, and are limited to one test drive per household.

– InsideMedford.com