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Everybody knows that automobiles have an enormous impact on the environment. Recognizing that impact and looking for some ways to reduce it is one way auto dealers can challenge themselves and try to set themselves apart.

Walser is opening a new Subaru dealership in Burnsville and invites the public to stop by and share in a variety of activities related to environmental impact and learn about some of the things they and the Subaru company are doing to try to reduce waste and pollution and be good “citizens.”

The activities include:

Monday 4/20: Free car seat safety clinic, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Parents have the opportunity to learn how to correctly install and fit child restraint safety seats. The car seat inspections will be performed by certified technicians from the Safe Kids Minnesota Coalition.

Tuesday, April 21 - Thursday, April 23
Dealership tours led by environmental designers and engineers, who will explain some of the choices the dealership made in focusing on a reduce-reuse format. These include a car wash from refurbished parts, use of phosphate-free soap, a white roof to reduce solar heat gains, and other design decisions.  Guests learn how to implement these initiatives in their homes and businesses.

Wednesday, April 22, Saturday April 25
Drop off used batteries, motor oil, and anti-freeze for recycling.

Also please bring new or gently-used furniture and household items for donation to families in need. Bridging Inc., the organization sponsoring this effort, estimates that this program kept 11 million pounds of household items out of landfills in 2008–and of course all of those items helped out the people who received them.

Also Saturday, free dog wash by Retrieve a Golden of Minnesota with $10 donation. The warm water wash includes local celebrities and earth friendly pet shampoo.

So, if you have old batteries, dirty oil, a spare sofa or refrigerator, or a dog ready for a bath, stop on down…. Beats buying earth shoes.

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