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Toyota Donates Sienna Van to W.Va Special Olympics

14 June 1999

    MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- On Friday, West Virginia Special Olympics (WVSO) accepted 
a new team member during the opening ceremony of the 1999 Summer Games here in 
Morgantown.  Toyota Motor Manufacturing, West Virginia, Inc. (TMMWV) donated a 1999 
Sienna van to the staff of West Virginia Special Olympics.  The van will be used 
to transport staff, athletes and equipment to various games, events and meetings.

    Thom Kirk, Corporate Administration Manager for TMMWV, presented the keys
to the van to WVSO Executive Director Chris Burge.

    "Toyota and Special Olympics have enjoyed a strong relationship.  We have
sponsored Special Olympics' fundraising events in several states," said Kirk.
"For example, last year in West Virginia we helped raise more than $59,000 for
West Virginia Special Olympics at our first golf tournament held in Hurricane.
We hope to exceed that amount in this year's tournament scheduled for
September 20 at Sleepy Hollow Golf Club."

    "Toyota has been a tremendous partner for us," stated Burge.  "Their
dedication to quality shows not just in the cars and trucks they build, but in
their corporate responsibility in the cities and states in which they operate.
Toyota wants to make a difference in their communities and they have."

    The new white Sienna, worth $23,000, is decorated with WVSO logos along
with the message "another Toyota serving the community."  The van was
manufactured at Toyota's Georgetown, Kentucky, plant.  Superior Toyota in
Parkersburg received and prepared the vehicle prior to the donation.

    The 1999 West Virginia Special Olympics Summer Games are being held
June 11-13 on the campus of West Virginia University.  More than 1,000
athletes from throughout the state will participate in seven different
Olympic-type sports.

    The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training
and competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for all children and
adults with mental retardation.  Special Olympics produces five state-level
and more than 100 local and area competitions annually for nearly 5,000
athletes.  Through the training and these competitions, Special Olympics
athletes build confidence and learn lessons that ultimately make them better
students, employees and citizens.  Special Olympics is training for life.

    Toyota Motor Manufacturing, West Virginia, Inc., currently has
approximately 400 team members producing 4-cylinder engines.  Production will
begin later this summer in the V-6 engine plant.  An automatic transmission
plant is under construction and will be fully operational by 2001.  At that
time the three plants will employ some 800 team members with the capability of
producing 500,000 engines and 360,000 transmissions per year.  Since 1996, the
Toyota family of companies has donated more than $1.2 million to various
projects in West Virginia.