Flat Stanley has traveled to Darlington Raceway with Shane Hmiel to take a ride in #15 TRIMSPA Chevrolet. The Flat Stanley Project is a nationwide elementary school program based on the book Flat Stanley written by Jeff Brown about Stanley Lambchop who gets flattened by a bulletin board. One of the many advantages is that Flat Stanley can now visit his friends by traveling in an envelope. His parents sent him by mail to see some relatives in California to seek some new adventures with instructions to keep a diary of his journey. Started in the summer of 1995, the Flat Stanley Project gives children the opportunity to expand their communication skills by broadening their borders by sending their own Flat Stanley on an adventure. Many of these students at the school are of low social-economic backgrounds. Eric T. from Lori Pierce’s fourth grade class at Dover Elementary School in Richardson Texas from wrote to Hmiel and asked him to take Flat Stanley on an adventure with him and what an adventure it will be. Ms. Pierce goal is to help her students learn what life is like outside their immediate neighborhood and to be able to share Stanley’s adventures with their classmates. So, keep your eye out in the NASCAR garages for Flat Stanley with Hmiel who is racing in both the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and Busch Series races with Team TRIMSPA this weekend in Darlington. In addition, Flat Stanley will make an exciting trip to the Florida Keys with Hmiel prior to returning to his Texas home. A journal with photos of Flat Stanley’s NASCAR adventure will be featured on Hmiel’s website, www.shanehmielracing.com. To learn more about the book Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown and the Flat Stanley Project visit the projects website at Flat Stanley Project.(PR)(11-12-2004)
