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Fraternity rushes on bikes to raise funds for people with disabilities |
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Terry Biel |
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Aug 2, 2005 |
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| Some Pi Kappa Pi fraternity members took a break from cycling in the Journey of Hope and stopped at UT's Student Recreation Center to visit with youths from the Sunshine Children’s Home. |
A team of two dozen cyclists and seven crew members reached Toledo today as part of the annual Journey of Hope bicycling event. Over the course of 71 days, three teams totaling 81 men cycle 4,000 miles from the west coast to Washington, D.C., to raise money and awareness for children with disabilities.
Teams are composed of members of Pi Kappa Phi national social fraternity, the parent organization for Push America, the fraternity’s service learning organization. This year teams raised a record $500,000. Since its start in 1987, Push America has raised $8 million to benefit children with disabilities.
This year’s north route team, which averages more than 70 miles per day, completed the 42nd leg of its journey by stopping at UT's Student Recreation Center and eating lunch with children from the Sunshine Children’s Home, based in Maumee, Ohio. Children there will receive about $6,000 of the money raised by the riders and were all smiles as they ate and laughed with the riders on campus.
“It’s really emotional when you see a smile on a kid’s face,” said Nick Buckman, a UT alum who made the trek in 2003 and came down from Ann Arbor to meet with the children and cheer on the 2005 riders. “We raise all this money, sure, but just the smiles on the people’s faces that you work with,” he said, was his best memory of the trip.
For more information, contact Rob Conroy of the Journey of Hope north team at 626.221.7110.
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