Call Before You Dig Renews Sponsorship with Stafford Speedway
Stafford Springs, CT — Stafford Motor Speedway has announced that Call Before You Dig will return for the 2010 season as a track partner. For the past three seasons Call Before You Dig has been the title sponsor of the track’s Technical Inspection Zone, and they will once again serve in that capacity for the 2010 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series season. In addition to sponsoring the Inspection Zone, Call Before You Dig has also maintained an advertising presence in the Stafford Speedway PitStopper Magazine as well as a billboard display along the track’s backstretch.
“We’re happy to have Call Before You Dig involved with us as a sponsor,” said Mark Arute, SMS COO/GM. “With the current economic climate, sponsors are harder and harder to find and it’s especially difficult to maintain a continuous relationship with a sponsor. We have several relationships with our current sponsors that have evolved into long-term partnerships and we hope to have another long-term relationship with Call Before You Dig. We’ve already had several sponsors renew their agreements with us for the 2010 season along with Call Before You Dig, which I think really speaks well to the value that we are able to offer a sponsor here at Stafford Speedway.”
Call Before You Dig is a non-profit organization comprised of all public utility companies and municipalities within Connecticut. CBYD is a free service that provides homeowners and professional excavators with a toll free number at 1-800-922-4455 to call for locating and marking underground facilities by its members. Anyone planning an outdoor project that requires digging with power or mechanized equipment must call a CBYD clearinghouse for a location request. There is a maze of utility lines and cables below the surface that need to be avoided. While hand digging is not required to notify CBYD, it is generally a good idea to contact them anyways as utility and cable lines can easily be sheared by a shovel, spade, pick, or other type of hand digging tool. In Connecticut, you can call 800-922-4455 for clearance before you dig. It is a free call to make, and calling CBYD before you dig is the law in Connecticut. Within 2 days of your call, a representative from each member utility company that will be affected by your dig will come to your site and mark the location of their underground facilities with color coded paint or flags. Location requests are good for 30 days from the time that they are issued. Call Before You Dig can be found online at www.cbyd.com for more information.
For more information, contact the Stafford Motor Speedway track office at 860-684-2783 or visit us on the web at www.staffordspeedway.com.
Sources: Scott Running/Stafford Motor Speedway PR