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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• News Briefs
Florida: Tuesday's Angels Are on the Shoulder (of the Road)
June 24, 2003 Eleven riders in the annual 100 Percent Solution Bike Ride
for Life -- a 308-mile ride from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to
Melbourne, Fla., and back -- collected $53,000 for HIV/AIDS. The
ride raised $65,000 last year and $60,000 in 2001. The coastal
ride was founded by two cyclists, Rob Hancock and Mike Walkowski,
who were upset to learn that a national AIDS ride they had
participated in donated only five cents out of every dollar
raised to agencies working directly with HIV-infected people.
Hancock and Walkowski approached the all-volunteer group
Tuesday's Angels to establish the ride in 1996. The ride's name
is derived from the fact that 100 percent of the money raised
goes to the Fort Lauderdale organization, which provides
emergency funding for people with HIV.
Excerpted from:Back to other CDC news for June 24, 2003 South Florida Sun-Sentinel 06.22.03; Ralph De La Cruz This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update. |
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