You are here: BCP homepage > News

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 Womens 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.
You are here:
http://pedalers.southport.org/schedule.html
Contact the BCP webmaster here.