The Rural Alberta Motorcycle Ride for Dad is coming up this weekend.
Registration begins at 8am on Saturday at the Zion Church in Didsbury and it will be ‘kick stands up’ at about 9:30.
Each year the proceeds from the Ride for Dad are invested in ground-breaking prostate cancer research and life-saving public awareness campaigns of the disease and the importance of early detection.
Gil Enns, One of the Co-Chairs of the Rural Alberta Chapter of the Ride for Dad, wants to highlight one of their partners in the fight against prostate cancer – the Heritage Junior Hockey League’s Mountain View Colts. He says “Well I can’t say enough about that organization. They’ve been with us for about 15 years and our chapter here has raised, in the time we’ve been here – 17 years – we’ve raised $1.2 million dollars and the Colts here, like that organization, they’ve done 20 per cent of that. They’ve raised almost a quarter of a million dollars for the cause. Like I said, I can’t say enough. They are just so great, those kids.”
Last season, the Mountain View Colts held their annual charity hockey game raising over $13,000 dollars for the Ride for Dad on February 10th.
Enns says the Colts efforts have resulted in the Rural Alberta Chapter of the Motorcycle Ride For Dad receiving plenty of recognition from their national organization. He says “Yeah, that has been huge. That’s what we call a third party fundraiser when someone else is raising funds for the cause. Where we don’t have to do all the work, somebody else does and we’ve taken the award for that, this chapter here in Didsbury has taken that award every year for years gone by for the most amount of a third party fundraiser and that is due to the Colts. That’s amazing.”
According to Enns, Saturday’s Rural Alberta Ride for Dad will go east from Didsbury with stops throughout the day in Linden, Drumheller, Three Hills, and Olds.
He anticipates they will be at Hildebrandt Motors in Olds around 2:30 or 3 o’clock.
Saturday’s Ride for Dad will then get back to Didsbury at 3:15 or 3:30 and supper will wrap up the day.
More details are available at ridefordad.ca or on the Rural AB Motorcycle Ride For Dad Facebook page.
Listen to 96.5 CKFM’s Community Hotline conversation with Gil Enns.