ABILENE, Texas - "Journey of Hope" riders left Long Beach, Calif., on June 2. Tuesday, they arrived in Abilene as part of a fundraising bike ride across America.
The message was "I'm just like you" during the Journey of Hope team's "Kids on the Block" puppet show at a YWCA children's class on Tuesday.
Twenty-four cyclists from universities around the country are riding eight hours a day to promote acceptance for people with disabilities.
CHESTERTOWN Ñ The 2014 Build America team, made up of 16 members of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, will be stopping at Camp Fairlee Manor in Chestertown, July 13-17, as part of its 46-day summer event down the East Coast.
Members of the Push America Journey of Hope team, which included 24 bicycle riders, pulled into Grand Island on Monday morning to a rousing welcome from members of the Arc of Central Nebraska, which is hosting the riders during their two-day visit.
Grand Island, NE - Two dozen bicyclists are taking a break from pedaling more than 4,000 miles across the country with a stop in Grand Island.
Tomorrow and Saturday, a Concord business owner will host a group of young men from various Pi Kappa Phi chapters and teach them the basics of load bearing, ladder safety, miter saws, building practices, drilling and more as part of a two-day training program to prepare them for a six-week service trip.
A Marshalltown Police Department escort of 35 bicyclists mixed with cheers from children on Marshalltown's Main Street will break the usual quiet of a Sunday morning July 6.
The crew at Concord Carpenter wanted to part of something bigger than ourselves so we volunteered to instruct the Build America Team on tool usage and tool safety. This is an intensive 3-day program that will teach these 21 young men how to safely use, and operate power tools, and how to build some of the projects they will be encountering.