Dale Jr. is, as all who follow him know, a gigantic fan of the NFL’s Washington Redskins football team. His Dale Jr. Foundation helped the team build out a local school library, and Dale Jr. pitched right in.
MOORESVILLE, N.C. (April 24, 2018) – Dale Earnhardt Jr. is, as all who follow him know, a gigantic fan of the NFL’s Washington Redskins football team.
He’s also a fan of promoting literacy to our nation’s youth via The Dale Jr. Foundation. What better way to engage both passions by helping the Redskins’ charitable arm, the Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation, and Heart of America Foundation in refurbishing and rebuilding a library in our nation’s capital?
The 15-time NASCAR Most Popular Driver joined team officials and several Redskins players last Friday in doing the heavy lifting prior to the grand opening of the brand-new LaSalle-Backus Educational Campus Library in Washington, D.C. LaSalle-Backus Educational Campus has worked with the WRCF through its Redskins Read Program, an incentive-based reading program that helps teachers expand on current curriculum for fourth- and fifth-grade students and increase reading scores. The Library, thanks to the help of WRCF, TDJF and Heart of America, now has updated paint schemes and décor, 350 new books, new technology and new furniture to aid in the education of students in the area.
Earnhardt Jr. was pumped to be part of the process.
Once on site, the 43-year-old soon-to-be father pitched in with a vengeance alongside the NFL players, and the results were spectacular.