Local motorcycle group hosts 24th annual toy ride Saturday

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For the 24th straight year, the local toy drive motorcycle ride will go on as scheduled Saturday morning to benefit Toys for Tots.

This year's drive will be bigger than ever before according to Corey Camp, one of the event's organizers. Camp is a member of the Freedom Seekers Motorcycle Club, the group hosting this year's event that will start with a morning ride from Cave Spring to Rome.

"We will meet at Rolater Park in Cave Spring at 9 a.m. with kickstand up at 11 a.m. and ride to the Coosa Valley Fairgrounds," Camp said. "There we will donate our purchased toys, followed by an auction, and then present the cash donation."

Each year Toys for Tots accepts unwrapped toys and cash donations to provide local underprivileged children with Christmas gifts. Last year's motorcycle ride brought in plenty of toys and over $9,500 in cash donations, and Camp hopes to exceed that.

Even through heavy rain, last year's riders were undeterred, and this year, organizers don't plan on letting the pandemic slow efforts down to give local children a little Christmas cheer.


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