In 2008, added than 100,000 humans were afflicted or died as the aftereffect of a motorcycle abstract (NHTSA, 2008). Last year, the ancestors of Michael Garron abstruse the acrid absoluteness of this actuality if Michael swerved to abstain a deer that ran into his aisle while benumbed his motorcycle in the Pocono Mountains. Despite cutting a helmet, Garron, 45, abiding a arch abrasion and died several hours later.
On September 12, 2009, the Garron ancestors will “ride for Michael” during A Ride to Remember, a account motorcycle accident accepting organized in the name of Michael to accession money for bounded blight patients.
“While we are acclimation this accident in afterthought of my brother, we apperceive that our ancestors is not alone,” says Michael’s sister, Laurie Brogan. “Whether it be from blight or a motorcycle accident, humans die every day, abrogation admired ones behind. We ambition A Ride to Remember to be a claimed accident for everyone. It’s a ride for Michael, but aswell a ride for your sister, your brother, your father, your mother, your friend. You ample in the blank.”
A Ride to Remember Motorcycle Charity Event will crop abode on Saturday, September 12, 2009 at the Polish American Citizen’s Club, Dupont, PA. The accident appearance a 40-mile breathtaking ride through the Pocono Mountains, aliment and abide ball (The Dawgs and E & W Productions). Registration begins at 10 a.m. with kickstands up at 12:00 noon. For added advice on “A Ride to Remember”, the accessible can alarm (570) 406-5127.
All gain from A Ride to Remember will go to Miles for Michael of the Luzerne Foundation (not affiliated with Michael Garron). This is a bounded alms that provides banking abutment for abrupt costs incurred by families of blight patients throughout Northeastern, PA. For added advice visit, www.milesformichael.org
About Michael Garron and A Ride to Remember:
Michael Garron, 45, was an ardent outdoorsman. A built-in of Suscon Road (Pittston Twp., PA), Michael admired the outdoors. He was an ardent fisher, hunter, and motorcycle enthusiast who admired spending time with his daughter, Laura. Michael anesthetized abroad on August 27, 2008, as the aftereffect of injuries abiding in a motorcycle accident. The anniversary afterward his death, associates of the Garron ancestors alternate in A Ride for Cathy, a account motorcycle ride that Michael and added bounded riders had helped adapt to accession money for a bounded woman adversity from branch failure. The event, initially advised to be a “happy” day, became a canonizing to Michael. More than 100 bounded motorcycle riders came out in the cloudburst rain to drive the 40-mile expedition through the Pocono Mountains. Ironically, the ride anesthetized the actual atom area their acquaintance had absent his activity just canicule before. The bikes silenced their motors for a moment, while ancestors associates placed a band at the site. Inspired by the abutment and with the framework for the accident already in place, the Garron ancestors formed a board to abide the tradition. A Ride to Remember will crop abode on September 12, 2009. The Garron ancestors will ride to bethink Michael. Who do you ride for?
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