(Rock Island County) It's that time of the year again....
Each year a coalition of caring community leaders comes together for a cause as worthy as they come: handing out bikes to the youngest and the neediest among us. Teaming up this year is the Rock Island County Regional Office of Education, Bike N'Hike and Queen's Parlour.
This initiative, called "Bikes for Brains," seeks to give out 150 bikes (with helmets and training wheels) to qualified QC-area children deemed eligible by Rock Island Head Start, Children's Therapy Center, The Project and Youth Hope. The average cost of a bike with training wheels is about $50. The Pilot Club of Moline has pledged to donate helmets for all of the new young bikers and will fit the children with the helmets properly at the giveaway day.
The goal is to raise a total of $6,000 between now and December 14th which is the happy day we give away the bikes. On that day, from 11 am-5 pm at the Martin Luther King Center in Rock Island, we help the young children pick out their new bikes.
Organizer Sandy Seeley loves to help with this program. "This initiative provides bicycles, helmets, and books to young children who would not be provided the opportunity to own and ride a bicycle, if it were not for the generous donations provided for by our community. Children who are recipients of this initiative will use their gross motor skills every time they ride their bike which, in turn, promotes brain development."
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Each year a coalition of caring community leaders comes together for a cause as worthy as they come: handing out bikes to the youngest and the neediest among us. Teaming up this year is the Rock Island County Regional Office of Education, Bike N'Hike and Queen's Parlour.
This initiative, called "Bikes for Brains," seeks to give out 150 bikes (with helmets and training wheels) to qualified QC-area children deemed eligible by Rock Island Head Start, Children's Therapy Center, The Project and Youth Hope. The average cost of a bike with training wheels is about $50. The Pilot Club of Moline has pledged to donate helmets for all of the new young bikers and will fit the children with the helmets properly at the giveaway day.
The goal is to raise a total of $6,000 between now and December 14th which is the happy day we give away the bikes. On that day, from 11 am-5 pm at the Martin Luther King Center in Rock Island, we help the young children pick out their new bikes.
Organizer Sandy Seeley loves to help with this program. "This initiative provides bicycles, helmets, and books to young children who would not be provided the opportunity to own and ride a bicycle, if it were not for the generous donations provided for by our community. Children who are recipients of this initiative will use their gross motor skills every time they ride their bike which, in turn, promotes brain development."
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