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Fri, 12 Jun 2009, 07:10 PM

Mike Ashley to Back Terry Haddock and Dream House at Englishtown

Courtesy of Mike Ashley Racing

ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. -- Terry Haddock Racing has partnered with Mike Ashley and Lend America for this weekend's 40th annual United Association SuperNationals, June 11-14, at historic Old Bridge Township Raceway Park. The program will benefit Dream House, a Georgia-based children's charity specializing in medically-fragile children.

Terry Haddock Racing will sport the colors of Dream House on both the Haddock-driven Top Fuel dragster and the Cory Lee's Funny Car, which is owned by Haddock, during the 2009 SuperNationals. Haddock has long been involved with children's charities and has donated more than $100,000 to benefit children's charity organizations.

"I am thrilled to have this opportunity," Haddock said. "Mike Ashley and Lend America have supported our team throughout the years, especially last year while we competed for the 2008 IHRA Funny Car Championship title. Without that support, winning the championship would have been difficult.

"It's an honor to be able to represent such a wonderful organization such as Dream House this weekend, a charity that Mike (Ashley) takes personal interest in. We look to put on a good show for them and possibly draw some more attention to their program and the miracles they make happen for children in Georgia. We are into this race on a high, having our first-round win against Tony Schumacher in Chicago last Sunday. We hope to continue improving on our performance by going rounds on Sunday for Dream House."

Dream House, named a Best in America Local Independent Charity, focuses on teaching children's families and communities how to help kids with very complex health issues live at home via their "Family for Keeps" hospital-to-home transition program. "Family for Keeps" provides a pathway for Georgia's medically fragile children to get out of institutional care into stable, single family homes. Dream House has served over 950 medically fragile children in 42 Georgia counties, and trained nearly 1,000 family members, caregivers and social workers since 2001. More information on Dream House and it's program can be found at http://www.dreamhouseforkids.org

Lend America is a National Mortgage Banking Organization based in Melville, New York, is the lender of choice for outstanding customer service and a wide variety of home finance programs. The company is the first lender in the nation to receive Hope for Homeowners (H4H) Unconditional Lender Insurance approval from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), has recently launched a national ad campaign to educate struggling homeowners. Lend America is committed to saving 10,000 homeowners from foreclosure in 2009. Please see http://www.lendamerica.com for more information on H4H.