National Missing Children’s Awareness Day and is open to all New
England bikers. Families of missing all over New England will be in
attendance and the public is encouraged to attend.
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 main sponsor for the
event benefiting LostNMissing, Inc., a 501c(3) Nonprofit, 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.
All motorcycle participants will be given a flag that has a photo of a
missing person from New England. Over 150 flags of missing loved ones
from New England and NY will have representation. Some of the missing,
who will be represented on a flag, are Maura Murray, missing from Haverhill, NH since Feb. 9, 2004, Abigail Hernandez, missing since Oct. 9, 2013 from N. Conway, NH, Michael Brougham, missing since June 25, 2010, Tammy Belanger, missing from Exeter, NH since Nov. 13, 1984 and Ayla Reynolds, toddler missing from Waterville, ME since Dec. 16, 2011.
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 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. Each family will have an awareness table for their missing loved
one with posters and information for the public. 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).”
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.
For those who may not be able to attend, but would like to donate to LostNMissing Inc, please click here.
New England Charity “Ride for the Missing – Poker Run” to benefit LostNMissing Inc. of Londonderry, NH
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