As a pre-Rendezvous activity, one of the big AGLCA sponsors, Curtis Stokes, organized a bike-building event to support the local Boys and Girls Club; a big crowd of folks pitched in to assemble twenty kids bicycles to be given to disadvantaged children. Each bike had a name-plate for a specific child, and they were to come later in the day and get the bikes.
It was quite moving to see how excited the kids were when they came in the room and saw the rows of shiny new bikes, and found the one with their name on it. We helped get the bikes and helmets adjusted, and while some kids knew how to ride and were riding around the ball-room, others hadn’t been on bikes before and got some assistance pedaling around. The AGLCA then treated them to ice cream before the chaperones took them home with their new bikes.