Our thoughts multiply. It happened last year at Open Road Subaru in Union when helping pediatric patients became paramount. With every car purchased from November 15 through January 2, Subaru of America set aside $250 toward its annual Share the Love campaign, with Goryeb Children’s Hospital named as the beneficiary.

The outcome? A check for $47,250 was hand delivered to Michael Morris, president of Open Road Auto Group to Walter Rosenfeld, MD, chair of pediatrics, this past spring. W.Rodman Ryan, CEO of Open Road and a Foundation trustee, got in on the act. A $52,750 matching gift from the Ryan family brought the donation to $100,000, showing that the more you give, the more it grows.

Team Open Road participated in a walk to help put an end to end type 1 diabetes (T1D).

When you have T1D, your body stops producing insulin: a hormone essential to turning food into energy. Managing the disease is a constant struggle that involves monitoring your blood-sugar level, administering insulin, and carefully balancing these insulin doses with your eating and activity just to stay alive.

With T1D there are no days off and there is no cure. But there is hope.

JDRF works tirelessly to find better treatments, preventions and ultimately, a cure for type 1 diabetes (T1D) and its complications through critical research. Every dollar they are able to direct toward this research comes from donors like you and team efforts such as this.

In what has become an annual event, Open Road Honda in Edison, NJ hosted a charitable event on Saturday, June 16th to benefit the Hands of Hope Food Pantry and the Central Jersey Blood Center.

The event, officially dubbed "Team Honda Community Day" at the Open Road dealer was an event open to the public free of charge and included games, BBQ, live music, rides for children and more. It was an effort to bring the local community together for the purpose of helping those in need as a part of the Team Honda Week of Service, which conducted nearly 550 volunteer service activities in 48 states, as well as Canada and Mexico. The Team Honda Week of Service is timed to coincide with the American Honda Motor Co., Inc. Founder's Day, marking the establishment of the first Honda business operation in North America, on June 11, 1959.

2018 marks Open Road Honda's third year participating in the Team Honda Week of Service, with all three years being partnered with:

The Hands of Hope Food Pantry, a non-profit, community based organization committed to providing an efficient and effective centralized system for distributing food to alleviate hunger.

In addition to the Central Jersey Blood Center, which is a community-based, non-profit blood collection and distribution organization that has been serving NJ residents for almost 50 years.

Since its inception in 2016, the community impact from the Team Honda Week of Service has included: more than 11,000 health kits collected and donated; 2,500 children provided school supplies; nearly 1,300 pints of blood donated; 75 homes painted/refurbished, more than 54 tons of food collected and more than 200,000 meals served.

For more information about the Team Honda Week of Service, please visit http://csr.honda.com.

Open Road Chevrolet is partnering with the Somerset Little League in Union. Open Road Chevrolet has joined forces with the national Chevrolet Youth Baseball program to provide new equipment and invitations to FREE instructional clinics.

"Playing the game of baseball helps kids develop skills like leadership, cooperation and sportsmanship while bringing families and communities together to show their support. Open Road Chevrolet and Chevrolet Youth Baseball are proud to participate in a sport that brings so many smiles to kids and families in Union." said Michael Morais, President for Open Road Chevrolet. "Chevrolet believes that in play, there are possibilities and supports the spirit of teamwork that baseball instills in its players."

2018 marks Chevrolet's Youth Baseball program's 13th year, and since its introduction has helped aid local teams, benefiting more than 12.4 million young people in communities where Chevrolet's customers live, work and play. In 2017, more than 1,500 Chevrolet dealers participated across the country.

Open Road Chevrolet will present an equipment kit that includes useful items such as batpacks, scorebooks, industrial-strength batting tees, ball buckets and T-shirts. The sponsorship also includes youth clinics featuring current and former MLB/MiLB players and coaches, or instructors from Ripken Baseball.

In addition, Open Road Chevrolet will present a check representing a one-time monetary contribution to Somerset Little League.

"Chevrolet vehicles are designed and built for families, safety and fun, so we encourage young people and their parents to make a Chevrolet the official vehicle of their household," said Morais.

For more information about Chevrolet Youth Baseball, please visit www.chevrolet.com/youthsports.com.