Karen Ranoni
LostNMissing Inc., 26 Noyes Rd., Londonderry, NH 03053
603-490-8903, lostnmissing@comcast.net
Press Release
Charity “Ride for the Missing – Poker Run” to be held weekend of National Missing Children’s Awareness day.
Press Release
Charity “Ride for the Missing – Poker Run” to be held weekend of National Missing Children’s Awareness day (May 24th).
Event sponsored by L-A Harley-Davidson ® Dealership
Lewiston,
ME, April 30, 2014: In the United States over 2,000 people go missing each day. L-A Harley
Davidson, recognizes these statistics and is sponsoring an event. L-A Harley is
a motorcycle dealer for
new and used bikes, as well as parts and services in Lewiston, Maine, they
are sponsoring a “Ride
For The Missing – Poker Run Charity Event” to benefit LostNMissing, Inc.,
a 501c(3) Nonprofit, which is a national missing persons organization based in
Londonderry, NH. The organization aids
law enforcement and families of missing, at no charge. While their case load is primarily missing
adults, they also assists families of missing children.
LostNMissing has worked with the
maternal family of missing
child, Ayla Reynolds, since the time of her disappearance, reported on December
16, 2011. “The search for Reynolds is
the largest criminal investigation in state history, it is also the third
largest search for a missing child in Maine history” according to Stephen
McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety. Reynolds’s
disappearance is believed to be the result of "foul play.” Reynolds
will be the honorary recognized missing person at the event and the maternal
family will be in attendance in support of LostNMissing.
All
families of missing in New England are invited and encouraged to attend to set
up an awareness table for their missing loved one, as well. An “open-mike” will
follow the event in which those with local musical talents may play and
families of missing may talk of their loved one’s cases. Media is encouraged to
attend.
According to the NCIC (National Crime
Information System / FBI) in 2013, 627,911 missing person records were entered
into NCIC in the United States. “This figure does not count those missing, such
as runaway teens, who are not entered or adults who may be mistakenly reported
as missing due to non-communication with family members.” says Cynthia Caron,
President-Founder, of LostNMissing. Overall, according to Caron, over 2,000
loved ones go missing each day. She further adds, “This event has been designed
to not only help support our mission but also to help bring awareness to the
public of those missing in New England.”
Mary Vitt, VP of LostNMissing, further adds “Each stop the bikers make
will have tables set up for bikers to pick up their poker card and will have
informative brochures and information for the public to pick up, as well.”
Local
businesses participating as stops will have an LNM representative to give
safety and awareness information and brochures to the public from 9-11:30 am.
Those businesses will include, L-A Harley in Lewiston, Hodgeman’s Frozen
Custard, of New Gloucester, the American Legion, Post 86, in Gray,
and Tailgate Sports Bar
& Grill, of Gray. The event begins at L-A Harley and will end there, as
well, with a BBQ lunch, raffles and door prizes and local performers have
donated their time to provide entertainment. Those performing are MB Padfield, an acoustic pop-rock
singer/songwriter from Manchester, NH, Vincent
( DJ KOOL V ) Oden one of New England’s Premier DJs, and Lewiston’s own hip-hop artist Pius Mayanja, who goes by "Pallaso" onstage will perform his moving tribute to "It's
Cold (Tribute to Ayla Reynolds)."The event is open to the public. All New England bikers are also encouraged to participate. L-A Harley is offering the first place prize of a $500 store gift card and Central Maine Powersports is offering the 2nd place prize of $150 for their shop. Entrance Fee for bikers is $20.00 (Includes 5 Poker Cards / 1 Raffle Ticket / BBQ Lunch) Non-riders and the public can enjoy the BBQ Lunch at $10 per person, ages 6-12 is $5, under the age of 5 is free. A number of business have donated raffled prizes in which tickets are 2/ $5.00 or 5/$10.00, RetroPlanet.com, of Nashua, NH, donated four $25.00 gift cards, a $50.00 gift card to “The Common Man” Restaurants has been donated by the John Caron Family, of Londonderry, NH. Handmade crafts and jewelry will also be awarded as raffle gifts. Dunkin Donuts has donated the coffee for the event. For more information, see any of the below links:
www.rideforthemissing.com , http://lostnmissing.org/ride-missing-event and on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/RideForTheMissing.
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