MATC’S FREE CAR CARE CLINIC TO HELP FOOD PANTRIES
It won’t be long now before “Old Man Winter” is here. So is your car ready for the snow and cold?
Here’s how you can make sure it is, and help out a good cause at the same time. For the fifth straight year, Madison Area Technical College automotive students, with the help of their instructors, are having a free Car Care Clinic. All you have to do is drop off a
non-perishable food item, which will be donated to a local food pantry.
The free Car Care Clinic is open to the public on a first-come,
first-served basis. It will be held Saturday, Nov. 3, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m
at MATC’s Truax campus, 3550 Anderson Street. Signs will help direct drivers to the clinic.
“Our students will check brakes, belts, hoses, wipers and other key parts, plus top-off fluids,” says Craig Lathrop, MATC automotive instructor and automotive club advisor. Car owners will be advised of any mechanical problems, but there will be no repairs during the clinic.
Last year, about 40 cars were inspected and nearly 235 pounds of food was donated to the Community Action Coalition.
MATC is one of the largest of the Wisconsin Technical College Systems’ 16 colleges. It offers associate degrees, vocational diplomas and certificates, and non-degree courses in more than 140 programs of study. The college serves all or parts of 12 counties located in south-central Wisconsin and offers instruction at five campuses--Madison, Fort Atkinson, Portage, Reedsburg and Watertown, and numerous community locations throughout the district.
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