Scholfield Honda

A suitcase. An overlarge, plain brown suitcase. With wheels. I woke up this morning thinking about it. Two weeks ago, several of my employees came to me and we talked about how, even in this recession, our business has been relatively good and how fortunate we all were to have jobs and the talk grew to helping someone less fortunate. My service manager, Steve, asked me where he could look to find someone in need. I suggested Interfaith Ministries and told him I would match whatever the other employees raised. I forgot about it until yesterday, the cutoff date, when I asked him how his fundraising was going. I was slightly stunned when he told me our small company had raised $1800 amongst the employees in two short weeks which I gladly matched. When I asked if he had found some families to help, he replied that Interfaith had put us in touch with 3 families. Later in the day, I inquired of Nel, our service secretary, what items we were providing with the donation. She was reading off the list of items and I was nodding until she came to this: "Six large, oversize suitcases." I said, "Suitcases? Why would we purchase suitcases?" Nel replied, "All three families are living in shelters. There's a single mom with 3 teenagers. A couple with 2 young kids and an older couple who just moved here months ago looking for work. Having met with them to discover their needs, I noticed all of them are carrying their possessions in garbage bags and cardboard boxes so I bought these big suitcases for them." I thought about those suitcases on the way home last night and I woke up this morning with the image of a family reduced to carrying their entire possessions in two large traveling cases. If you would like to help, or help others, contact me. There are literally hundreds needing our help this year. I'll never be able to look at a suitcase the same.

Every year Scholfield Honda celebrates the holidays by having its Christmas Party at our Delivery Center. It's a great time with Santa and toys for all of the children. Here are some pictures from this years event.

For the last three years, Roger Scholfield has been teaching a Junior Achievement class in the Andover school system. For 6 weeks each school year, Roger has taught eighth graders in Kim Helmer's social studies class at Andover middle school about international trade. JA introduces students to buiness terms such as imports and exports, trade, productivity and cultural differences around the world. Two of the three years Roger has been involved, he had both his daughter Maddy and this year son AJ in the classroom.

"Today's kids are incredibly sharp and really keep you on your toes," Roger Scholfield.

Here is a nice video KWCH put together introducing our new Generation Green Motor Oil

Scholfield Honda is launching their own brand of re-refined oil, Generation Green, in partnership with Universal Lubricants.

Generation Green uses 80% less energy to produce and one barrel of Generation Green replaces 50 barrels of refined oil, thus helping the environment and reducing overall oil consumption.

Scholfield Honda will be donating proceeds from each Generation Green oil change towards local Kansas environmental projects.

In addition, Scholfield Honda has joined with Waste Connections as one of their local partners in offering consumers credits for recycling through Waste Connections Recycle Bank program. When you sign up to recycle, you earn credits for each pound of material you collect. These credits can then be redeemed for coupons at a variety of local and national businesses. Scholfield Honda is currently offering $4 off a Generation Green oil change through the Recycle Bank program.

Scholfield Honda participated in Woofstock this year and had on display a pet friendly Honda Element. Woofstock is a great event the Kansas Humane Society puts together to raise money for homeless animals. For more information on the Kansas Humane Society click here.