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Southern California Gears Up for the 15th Annual Los Angeles Ride For Kids Benefiting the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation, Sunday, May 6, 2007
Bikers often receive bad press but when it comes to the Annual Los Angeles
Ride For Kids events hundreds of these bikers will show their metal and shower
love on children striken by the nation’s deadliest childhood cancer:
Brain Tumors. This year is year 15 in what is now a well established event.
The Loss Angeles Rode For Kids events will benefit the Pediatric Brain Tumor
Foundation (PBTF). The event itself is expected to draw 1000 riders on virtually
every brand of bike to the corporate campus of American Honda in Torrance on
Sunday, May 6.
Many will arrive at the crack of dawn and empty their pockets of the funds
they have been collecting for the past year, including people like Robert
and Michael Morales of Highland who brought $26,721 in 2006.
Once assembled they’ll motor off on a leisurely, police-escorted ride
through the South Bay area, then return an hour later and gather under a “big-top
tent” for the PBTF’s Celebration of Life program. After a sack
lunch, the riders will hear from family members, research scientists and
more than a dozen brain tumor survivors, including children like eight-year
old Alexa of Simi Valley, who gathered $25,165 to help the cause in 2006.
Some of the young people present last year had gone on to college, supported
in part by PBTF scholarships. Scott, 18-years old at the time, told the assembled
motorcyclists that he was studying psychology so he “can help kids
like me get through what I’ve gone through.”
According to the PBTF, the Los Angeles Ride for Kids has raised over $1.7M
since its inception and that more than 88 percent of these funds underwrite
the foundation’s research and family support programs. To participate
in this year’s event on Sunday, May 6, registration begins at 8:00
a.m. and closes at 9:45 a.m. The minimum donation is $35. For more information,
visit www.rideforkids.org.
About the PBTF Ride for Kids
Since 1984, the national Ride for Kids® program and the PBTF have promoted
childhood brain tumor research and provided family support through free literature
about brain tumors, educational newsletters, online conferences and college
scholarships. With the help of America's motorcyclists and motorcycle dealers,
PBTF has become the world's largest non-governmental source of funding for
childhood brain tumor research. For more information, go to www.rideforkids.org
or call 800-253-6530.
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