“Shut it down!” shouted 98.5 KLUC host Chet Buchanan as the team from Centennial Toyota closed the door on another Coca-Cola semi-truck packed with donations for the 20th annual KLUC Toy Drive presented by Venetian Resort and Sands Cares.
By the time the Centennial Toyota team had wrapped up, four semi-trucks had been closed and the donation drive had collected an additional 800 bicycles, pushing the total past 1,300 on just the second day of Buchanan’s 12-day effort.
The auto group, which arrived at Buchanan’s temporary home in the NV Energy parking lot just before 8:30 a.m. Friday, was among the largest donors on a day Las Vegas businesses poured in with gifts to be distributed by HELP of Southern Nevada.
Centennial Toyota Brought HOW MANY Bikes?!?!?!
A short time later, Chapel of the Flowers arrived with enough donations to shut down the seventh Coca-Cola truck, sending the crowd into a raucous applause.
The annual toy drive is famous for inspiring generosity among businesses large and small in southern Nevada.
Friday’s edition of “The Chet Buchanan Show” also featured an appearance by longtime Las Vegas-based public relations and marketing agency PR Plus, with the company’s team bringing bags of unwrapped toys to fill the bins set up near Buchanan’s elevated stage.
That came on the heels of Day 1 donations by Naqvi Injury Law, Hirschi Masonry, and Tropical Smoothie, among others.