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In 1998, eight-year old Ryan Wilkinson of Medfield enlisted his
six-year old sister and eleven friends to bicycle twenty-six times around his
neighborhood, creating the first PMC Kids Ride and raising $1,600. This was a
mighty impressive feat for kids on tricycles and their first two-wheelers.
PMC Kids Rides have grown since then to twenty-three rides with
3,548 children participating. Last year these rides raised more than $465,000
for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Jimmy Fund, part of the $33 million the PMC
raised in 2007 to promote cancer research and treatment.
Local kids three to thirteen years old will saddle up for the
second annual Wellesley-Weston PMC Kids Ride on Sunday, June 1, 2008. This
year’s goal is to raise $70,000 to help fight cancer. Last year, more than 200
children crossed the finish line. This year the PMC KIds Ride is hoping to have
400 riders.
For more information please contact
Karen Linde Packman
Co- Chair PMC Wellesley-Weston Kids Ride
kpackman@comcast.net
781-646-5636 |
