NBU NEWS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 6, 2005
Contact: Gretchen Reuwer, NBU Communications Manager, (830) 629-8486

NBU and Chick-fil-A team up for tasty school year

NEW BRAUNFELS— As school children get back into the swing of a new school year, NBU and Chick-fil-A are joining forces to help make it a safer—and more delicious—fall semester. The SAFEhaven in Schools team of Chuck Reininger and Mike Wiley and the SAFEhaven mascot, Bucky the Bucket Truck, will be visiting New Braunfels area schools to share their message of safety education and to invite children, in grades kindergarten through third, to participate in the fourth annual SAFEhaven coloring book contest.

The SAFEhaven in Schools program provides safety education to children and teaches them that NBU trucks and personnel can provide them with access to emergency services. The trucks serve as safe points from which NBU employees will call for assistance and wait with children for parents or authorities. On any given day, dozens of NBU trucks and equipment are deployed throughout the New Braunfels area. All NBU trucks are equipped with SAFEhaven identification, enabling any citizen in need to ask an NBU employee to call for medical or public safety assistance. NBU provides a direct line of communication to emergency services such as police, fire and EMTs. SAFEhaven provides children and adults an alternative to asking for help from people they don’t know.

SAFEhaven coloring books are passed out to each child during the school program, which they can take home and share what they have learned with their parents. Parents, in turn, are encouraged to take the opportunity to discuss the topic of safety at home, in school and in the community with their child. Inside each book is an entry for the SAFEhaven Coloring Contest. Entries are also available at the NBU Main Office located at 263 E. Main Plaza in downtown New Braunfels or by visiting the SAFEhaven link on the NBU website at www.nbutexas.com. Parents are invited to send their child’s masterpiece to NBU, c/o SAFEhaven Coloring Book Contest, P.O. Box 310289, New Braunfels, TX 78131-0289, or drop them by the NBU Main Office. Four lucky winners (one from each grade) will receive a coupon good for four Chick-fil-A combo meals per month for one year and one Chick-fil-A lunch party for their homeroom classes during the month of December. Entries must be received by Wednesday, November 30, 2005.

If you are a parent or teacher and want to learn more, please visit www.nbutexas.com to find a complete list of contest rules and regulations, or call (830) 629-8486 to ask about the SAFEhaven Coloring Book Contest.