ROUND TOWN
Glenn’s Rental & Repair Celebrates 50 Years of Business in Atascadero
Coats for Kids Warms Up the
Holidays!
Named 2018 Business of the Year Earns Honda Platinum Leadership Award
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By Barbie Butz
t may still be warm, but the Coats for Kids committee is gearing up for the Christmas distribution in December. We need new and gently used coats, jackets, sweaters and sweatshirts for children and adults to be distributed to families in need here in North SLO County. On December 12th Coats for Kids will partner with Atascadero Loaves and Fishes, Kiwanis, Toys for Tots and Salvation Army during the Loaves and Fishes Christmas Project at the National Guard Armory in Atascadero. We will partner with Toy Bank of Greater Paso Robles, Toys for Tots and Salvation Army at the Paso Robles Event Center for “A Day of Giving” on December 15th. Based on last year’s statistics and combining both distributions, Coats for Kids will serve over 800 families, or approximately 4,000 individuals in North SLO County. Between the two events we serve those in need from San Miguel to Santa Margarita and all outlying areas of the north county with a warm item to wear. Please check your closets for gently used coats or jackets that you or your children are no longer wearing. Take them to any North SLO County cleaners and they will clean them at no charge. A committee member will pick them up. It’s as simple as that! If you want to purchase a new item, please purchase for a child from toddler through grade six. Drop-off boxes will soon be visible in some locations around the area, otherwise you can take new items to the cleaners, but mark item “NEW.” A committee member will get those, too. For more information visit our Facebook page, visit the website at coats-for-kids.net, or call Barbie at 805-4611234. Thanks for your support!
By Luke Phillips
ne of Atascadero’s oldest still-op- solar panels, installed new lighter-colored erating businesses, Glenn’s roof that reflects heat to cut down on Rental & Repair — which cele- cooling bills, new LED lighting, upped brated it’s 50th anniversary this year and its recycling game and cut its water conwas also named the Atascadero Cham- sumption, all reflected on its monthly ber of Commerce Business of the Year utility bills and verified by Honda. “It’s a tough bar,” Auslen said. “It’s 2018 — has joined the elite ranks of their highest award. It’s pretty Honda dealers that have awesome, nobody else can say received the company’s that. We’ve done a lot in the highest award for environpast five years here to change mental sustainability. the dynamics of the business.” Glenn’s Repair & Rent“It’s a win-win,” said Ausal is one of only four other en’s wife Kate. “It’s good for Honda dealerships nationus, it’s good for the environwide to receive the comment, it saves money and the pany’s Platinum Environcustomers appreciate that mental Leadership Award we’re becoming more and and one of only two power more sustainable.” tool dealerships. The other Geoff and Kate recently two platinum award-winGeoff Auslen ners are car dealerships loPhoto by Luke Phillips received a plaque commemorating their achievement cated in big cities, making Glenn’s Repair & Rental the only small from a Honda corporate representative town business to have received the honor. with Atascadero Mayor Tom O’Malley In order to receive the award, the busi- in attendance to give his congratulations. “We overachieve a little bit,” Auslen ness had to reduce its resource consumption by 50 percent, owner Geoff Auslen said. “We actually did every single edusaid. Auslen started working toward the cational module that Honda offered in goal after learning about the award at a the power equipment world. We like to Honda convention in Las Vegas a year kind of set the bar a little high. It makes ago. Since then, the business has installed a difference.”
2018 Business of the Year
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COLONY Magazine, November 2018