Congratulations on the 2009 Bike Helmet Project Success

This has been another even more successful year for the Brunswick County Pedalers in cooperation with the Southport Lions Club, and the Southport Women’s Club helped to buy bicycle helmets for 198 deserving kids this Christmas.  This is the third year that we partnered with the  well organized Christmas Bicycle project of the Brunswick Plant Employees.  The bike and helmet drive supported requests from 36 schools this year in Brunswick, Columbus and New Hanover counties. School officials help determine the need for each school.
The Brunswick Plant Employee bike drive started in 1997 when one employee approached another employee about buying a bike for a deserving child at an area school. This was viewed as an opportunity to provide a nice gift to someone during an important time of the year. Further conversations with other co-workers led to enough money to buy 10 bikes that first year.  Realizing that helmets were needed for kids riding all these new bikes, we began partnering with their project several years ago.  Over the past thirteen years, more than 1,500 children have received new bicycles and now new helments as a result of the time and money generously given.  The helmets were purchased in bulk and the bikes were picked up at area retailers with the deliveries Monday, December 14 through Friday, December 18.

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