Welcome! This page is for all information related to the Triunfo YMCA’s Soap Box Derby/Healthy Kids Day event which is open to the public.

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This event has been a tremendous success over the last couple of years, and is expected to be even better this year. This year’s event includes:

  • Soap Box Derby racing
  • Big Sunday
  • DJ: Music and Dancing by Time of Your Life
  • Healthy Kids Day exhibitors
  • Antique, Classic and Current Model Car Show
  • NASCAR Racing Trailer, late model and midget cars
  • Community BBQ by Boy Scout Troop 485
  • Bounce houses and more
  • LA County Sheriff (if not on a call)
  • LA County Fire Dept (if not on a call)

and more!

Location:
Farmers Insurance Building Parking Lot
Opposite City of Westlake Village City Hall and Library
31051 Agoura Road, Westlake Village

Date/Time:
Sunday, May 15th, 2011
Overall Event open: 10:00am – 2:00pm
Big Sunday: 10:00am ? 2:00pm
Car Show open: 10:00am – 2:00pm (awards at approximately 1:30pm)
Soap Box Races: 11:00am ? 1:30pm (awards at approximately 1:30pm)

Big Sunday

This year, Big Sunday activities will be integrated into Soap Box Derby. There will be three primary focuses, headed up by Dave Moorman.

? Sorting/Organization of previously and newly collected items
? Arts & Crafts project (e.g., flower pots for senior homes)
? Collection of items including:
– Clothing of any type
– Shoes of any type
– School supplies (including back packs)
– Baby items (e.g., diapers, sealed baby food or formula, wipes, toys)
– Cooking/kitchen items (bowls, pots, plates, silverware, etc…)

On event day, we will need volunteers to help sort and organize items for distribution that are collected both on-site as well as prior to Soap Box Day. Big Sunday activities also need assistance in collecting items on the day prior to Soap Box. If you are able to volunteer for any Big Sunday activity, please contact Dave Moorman .

Big Sunday is the largest citywide community service event in America, empowering thousands of volunteers throughout the greater Los Angeles area to help the disadvantaged, and improve and repair community services. Although the primary focus of Big Sunday is the Big Sunday Weekend (May 14-15 this year), there are opportunities to help all year long. There are often a number of Big Sunday projects occurring each year in the local area, ranging from work projects to collections for the needy. For the past two years, a centralized collection and sorting event was held at the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station, and this year will be held in conjunction with the Triunfo YMCA Soapbox Derby and Healthy Kids Day. The event will be a drop-off point and sorting site for food and clothing collected through local schools and at local grocery stores, and craft projects will enable the whole family to create artwork to brighten the day for a medical shut-in or a senior in a care facility. Other projects will support additional charities. Big Sunday is dedicated to the belief that everyone has some way that they can help somebody else, and participating in this event is a good way to start, and a great way to instill in kids a commitment to service.

Healthy Kids Day

The Triunfo YMCA is proud to sponsor its fourth annual Healthy Kids? Day event. Healthy Kids Day is a 20 year-old initiative hosted by local YMCAs throughout North America. The emphasis of the event is advocacy for healthy kids in local communities. Participating organizations will be local service providers who support better health for children and/or can offer healthy activities in which they can be involved. Organizations are either invited by the YMCA to be a part of Healthy Kids Day or are aware of the importance of the event and ask to participate. Physicians, dance and gymnastics studios, youth sports organizations and martial arts centers are a few examples of those types of businesses. During the event, these vendors demonstrate, provide information and distribute sample wares.

NASCAR Race Team

Tim Huddleston’s High Point Racing will bring a NASCAR trailer (a semi-truck) with Limited Late Model NASCAR race cars to show off and answer questions about. Jessica Clark, a Westlake Village resident and high school junior, will be on hand with her Limited Late Model NASCAR and Midget car. Interested in racing? Come and talk to these drivers and their teams.

Want to participate? Need more info?

Here are relevant web pages and links that you may want to know about:

Soap Box Derby (Contact us ASAP!)

Car Show (Register ASAP)
How can your car participate? Click here for car registration.
Got Questions? Drop our Car Show Director an email at Richard@Largeins.com .

A big thank you to all of our sponsors:

        

        

        

                

Prior Soap Box Derby Events:
Soap Box Derby 2007: https://westlakerevelations.com/?q=node/24
Soap Box Derby 2008: https://westlakerevelations.com/?q=node/89
Soap Box Derby 2009: https://westlakerevelations.com/?q=node/148
Soap Box Derby 2010: https://westlakerevelations.com/?q=node/213