AVID WEEKLEY HOMES HOSTS SCHOOL SUPPLIES DRIVE BENEFITTING THE ROAD HOME
Salt Lake City, UT (July 5, 2018): David Weekley Homes is hosting its fourth School Supplies Drive in cities across the country. From July 7-31, the local community is invited to support children in need by donating new school supplies to The Road Home. Donations can be dropped off at the Division Office, located at 392 East 6400 South, Suite 200 in Murray, or any David Weekley model home in the Salt Lake City area. To view the list of supplies needed, and to find a model home, click here.
David Weekley Homes strives to make a positive impact in the communities in which it builds through its CARE program. This is accomplished by joining together with team members, homeowners, vendors and community partners to volunteer with different organizations, and by The David Weekley Family Foundation donating more than $100 million to a variety of organizations through the U.S. and abroad over the past 20 years.
The company’s CARE program stands for:
C – Committed to Building Community Character… encouraging a culture of caring and contribution with our Team Members, Customers and Community.
A – Active in our Community… engaging our communities through Team Members completing hundreds of projects and The David Weekley Family Foundation donating more than $100 million to worthy causes over the past 20 years.
R – Responsible to our Community… living up to our responsibility of Building Dreams and Enhancing the Lives of our Team, Customers and Community.
E – Enhancing our Community… living a life of service to provide true meaning and purpose.
About The Road Home
The Road Home assists individuals and families experiencing homelessness by providing shelter, services and more. School supplies collected will be provided to children living in the shelter.
About David Weekley Homes
David Weekley Homes, founded in 1976, is headquartered in Houston and operates in 21 cities across the United States. David Weekley Homes was the first builder in the United States to be awarded the Triple Crown of American Home Building, an honor which includes “America’s Best Builder,” “National Housing Quality Award” and “National Builder of the Year.” Weekley has also appeared 12 times on FORTUNE magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For®” list. Since inception, David Weekley Homes has closed more than 90,000 homes. For more information about David Weekley Homes, visit the company’s website at www.davidweekleyhomes.com.
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As we all prepare to enjoy our nation’s annual birthday celebration, we hope you’ll take a few moments between the cookouts, ballgames, parades, and fireworks to truly consider what Independence Day means to us collectively, as a nation, and individually as citizens. Collectively it defines us as a country; it symbolizes our role as a leading light for democracy and freedom around the globe, and as the greatest advocate for and defender of those freedoms that the world has ever known.
As citizens, it means that we enjoy freedoms that are unrivaled in the history of civilization: the freedom to worship as we choose and not as dictated by the state; the freedom to speak – to agree, to differ, to argue, to quietly debate or to scream from the top of our lungs – in expressing any opinion we hold; the freedom to associate – with anyone we choose and, as importantly, with no one if that is our choice; the freedom to assemble – to meet, gather, march, to unite in celebration or protest; freedom of movement – to travel the nation unhindered; a free press – providing a broad chorus of independent opinion, thought and insight unchecked by censorship; and the freedom to call on our government to act, to call out our government when it fails to act, to support policies and laws or to oppose them.
So tomorrow take a minute to think about those freedoms, and the hundreds of other ways, large and small they manifest themselves in our daily lives. Then take another minute to think of how life would be if any of them were taken away.
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WE THE KINGS
Releases New Album,
Six
Available for Purchase Here
Streaming on Spotify &
"The record fans have been waiting for -- literally and figuratively." - Billboard
"With themes such as life, death and marriage, Six stands
as the bands' 11-track memoir." - Alternative Press
"It's proof that We The Kings can keep experimenting because their music
is built on such a solid foundation of songwriting craftsmanship." - Newsday
Bradenton, FL - July 6, 2018 - Rock band We The Kings is celebrating the release of their new album, Six, available now via S-Curve Records/BMG. The band's 6th full-length album, Six has been heralded by Billboard, Alternative Press, Rock Sound, and more. The record can be streamed on Spotify and Apple Music, or purchased online here.
On the new album, front-man Travis Clark shares: "Our 6th album, appropriately titled "SIX," is the record our fans have been waiting for from We The Kings. The double meaning behind "SIX" lies within our fans for being the 6th member of WTK."
We The Kings previously released singles "On My Love" and "Even If It Kills Me." With adds to top Spotify playlists like New Punk Tracks, Punk's Not Dead, and New Noise, these singles have seen great successes on streaming services.
When naming their new album, We The Kings set out to check a few boxes. Not only does Six represent the Florida-based band's sixth full-length album (all of which, from their 2007 Self-Titled through 2015's Strange Love, begin with the letter S), but it also pays tribute to the quintet's honorary sixth member: their fans.
As such, the artwork of Six literally features a piece of their fans, a mosaic of those who helped crowdfund the album. It's a testament to an audience who have rallied behind We The Kings for their entire career-to the tune of more than 250 million Spotify streams and platinum-selling success.
"There's a pride that fans have about their favorite bands that I think is so special," frontman Travis Clark says. "These fans have been supporting us for more than a decade. When we're writing songs, we don't want to let anyone down."
Indeed, We The Kings' storied career has been marked by a deep reciprocity between the band and their fans. When the group--Clark, Hunter Thomsen (guitar), Danny Duncan (drums), Charles Trippy (bass) and Coley O'Toole (keyboard, guitar)-broke out of Bradenton, Florida in 2007 with "Check Yes Juliet," one of the most iconic songs of the late '00s pop-punk movement, millions of listeners around the world instantly fell in love with their buoyant spirit and emotionally poignant songwriting.
Follow-up singles like "Heaven Can Wait," "We'll Be A Dream," "Say You Like Me" and "Sad Song" kept We The Kings squarely in the mainstream, but as they readied Six, the band dug deep into the past to find inspiration from their earliest days. Their 10-year anniversary tour for Self-Titled sold out venues around the world in 2017, and it gave We The Kings a renewed sense of energy as they prepped new music.
Indeed, there are plenty of throwback moments on Six, but maybe not in the way fans would expect. Rather than retread where they came from, the band's nods to their past are more nuanced, finely filtered through a modern lens that affords them the freedom to expand their sound in all directions and continually redefine just what a We The Kings song should sound like.
At its core, Six's true triumph is its emotional heft. So much has changed for We The Kings since Strange Love--marriage, childbirth, death--and the album's 11 songs are a tribute to life's moments, both big and small, and how you never know which is which until much later down the line.
Six is the 6th studio album from We The Kings, and is available now at smarturl.it/WeTheKingsSIX.
For more information, please visit:
Credit Lee Cherry
Website: www.wethekingsmusic.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/wethekings
Twitter: www.twitter.com/wethekings
Instagram: www.instagram.com/wethekings
Six Tracklisting:
1. On My Love
2. The Ocean and the Sun
3. Even If It Kills Me
4. Mama Knows Best
5. Ride
6. Alive
7. I Won't Settle
8. Festival Music
9. Planes, Trains, and Cars
10. Immortal
11. What I Wouldn't Give
Upcoming Tour Dates on Vans Warped Tour:
7.06 DALLAS, TX
7.07 SAN ANTONIO, TX
7.08 HOUSTON, TX
7.10 NASHVILLE, TN
7.12 VIRGINIA BEACH, VA
7.13 CAMDEN, NJ
7.14 HOLMDEL, NJ
7.15 HARTFORD, CT
7.16 PITTSBURGH, PA
7.17 TORONTO, ON
7.18 CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH
7.19 CINCINNATI, OH
7.20 DETROIT, MI
7.21 CHICAGO, IL
7.22 MINNEAPOLIS, MN
7.23 MILWAUKEE, WI
7.24 INDIANAPOLIS, IN
7.25 DARIEN CENTER, NY
7.26 SCRANTON, PA
7.27 MANSFIELD, MA
7.28 WANTAGH, NY
7.29 COLUMBIA, MD
7.30 CHARLOTTE, NC
7.31 ATLANTA, GA
8.02 JACKSONVILLE, FL
8.03 ORLANDO, FL
8.04 TAMPA, FL
8.05 WEST PALM BEACH, FL
