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- kris_burger
SORRY LONG WINDED BACKSTORY !!!!
In my area of GTHA (greater Toronto Hamilton Area) Hamilton Ontario Canada. Here we have this short dirt track known as ohsweken speedway where the run late models ,sprints and others. When I was growing up one weekend a year they would have the world outlaw racing series come up with one or more big name nascar drivers come up and run, if I remember correctly Kasey Kane, Tony Stewart, mark martin, and others have come up. Now this is track is owned Glenn Styres and the Styles family. Styres' story has as many twists and turns as the nearby Grand River. As a kid growing up on the Six Nations Reserve, there were lean times.
His dad died before he was born, his mother worked picking tobacco to support five kids, but still had to borrow milk and sugar when money was scarce. At age 7, he saw his first Daytona 500 on TV, a fuzzy picture that left a very sharp memory. “I was hooked, and luckily my Uncle Frankie Turkey loved cars and racing, so he took me to races all over Ontario,” at age 25 or 30 he bought his first car and trailer but didn’t have tools or even multiple tires he ran some races but wanted something closer to home,He's a founding member of Grand River Enterprises, a multi-million-dollar cigarette manufacturer located on the Six Nations. Little brother Glenn listened. He got loans, maxed out his credit cards and cobbled together money to start building the track on land in the family. Eventually he sold his shares in GRE to get the track on solid footing, and now it's run as a family business and in 2019 he had to retire from racing due to injury and concussions but now is a team owner.
So with the design I also choose to incorporate the Every child matters slogan or brand to raise awareness of what happen to all the poor innocent native Canadian children in the residential school system back in the day (until 1990), and who most Canadians were oblivious to the atrocious that happened at these Schools and the effect it would have on the survivors, but also the fact that a staggering number of these kids never made it home, we are now just finding them and find names after decades of cover ups .Here in Canada September 30th is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation aka orange shirt day which only just started in 2019. And this is also why I chose the the Color orange for the pace truck. Sorry for the long winded speech
In my area of GTHA (greater Toronto Hamilton Area) Hamilton Ontario Canada. Here we have this short dirt track known as ohsweken speedway where the run late models ,sprints and others. When I was growing up one weekend a year they would have the world outlaw racing series come up with one or more big name nascar drivers come up and run, if I remember correctly Kasey Kane, Tony Stewart, mark martin, and others have come up. Now this is track is owned Glenn Styres and the Styles family. Styres' story has as many twists and turns as the nearby Grand River. As a kid growing up on the Six Nations Reserve, there were lean times.
His dad died before he was born, his mother worked picking tobacco to support five kids, but still had to borrow milk and sugar when money was scarce. At age 7, he saw his first Daytona 500 on TV, a fuzzy picture that left a very sharp memory. “I was hooked, and luckily my Uncle Frankie Turkey loved cars and racing, so he took me to races all over Ontario,” at age 25 or 30 he bought his first car and trailer but didn’t have tools or even multiple tires he ran some races but wanted something closer to home,He's a founding member of Grand River Enterprises, a multi-million-dollar cigarette manufacturer located on the Six Nations. Little brother Glenn listened. He got loans, maxed out his credit cards and cobbled together money to start building the track on land in the family. Eventually he sold his shares in GRE to get the track on solid footing, and now it's run as a family business and in 2019 he had to retire from racing due to injury and concussions but now is a team owner.
So with the design I also choose to incorporate the Every child matters slogan or brand to raise awareness of what happen to all the poor innocent native Canadian children in the residential school system back in the day (until 1990), and who most Canadians were oblivious to the atrocious that happened at these Schools and the effect it would have on the survivors, but also the fact that a staggering number of these kids never made it home, we are now just finding them and find names after decades of cover ups .Here in Canada September 30th is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation aka orange shirt day which only just started in 2019. And this is also why I chose the the Color orange for the pace truck. Sorry for the long winded speech
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