Jimmie Johnson Touches Lives With Foundation Grants

Filed under: Jimmie Johnson, NASCAREL CAJON, Calif. (AP) -- Jimmie Johnson likes to give back to his hometown, then come back to see how the money is spent.

On Tuesday, that meant pulling into a school yard in a replica of his No. 48 Chevrolet, thrilling several hundred students at Emerald STEM Magnet Middle School in this blue-collar community on the eastern edge of San Diego's suburban sprawl.

A few minutes later, Johnson and his wife, Chandra, were in the automation and robotics lab watching 13-year-old J.T. Duboise demonstrate a computer-controlled model car.

Duboise told Johnson he thought about adding a horn, then decided against it.

"Who wants a horn?" Johnson replied, reassuring the eighth grader that his car was just fine. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

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