Potholes and Road Apples

A former Elizabethtown man, whose bicycling group raised money for the fight against childhood cancer, has been charged with stealing almost $6,000 from donations, the Lancaster New Era reports today.
Jeffrey S. Schaeffer, 40, formerly of the 300 block of North Market Street, Elizabethtown, was founder and president of a charity group called Cycling For Life, […]

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The Green Mountain Cyclery bike shop in Ephrata will hold the local Trek WSD Breast Cancer Awareness Ride on Saturday, Oct. 11, at 10 a.m.
Green Mountain, 285 S. Reading Road, is one of six Trek dealers in Pennsylvania and one of 100 participating dealers in the United States and Canada. Trek hopes to have 10,000 men, […]

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COBYS Family Services, a social service agency based in Lancaster County, will hold a fund-raising event Sunday, Sept. 7 that includes options of 10- and 25-mile bicycle rides, a three-mile walk and a 60-mile motorcycle ride. The walk and the rides begin at 1:30 p.m. at the Lititz Church of the Brethren.
Last year, the annual […]

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Local bicyclists Mike Ridgeway and Robin Smith will be taking turns on the pedals this weekend to raise money for a single mother and her infant daughter with brain tumors.
Ridgeway, founder of the local Dream Ride for Lancaster bicycle rides, and Smith will be doing “The Longest Day” ride, beginning Saturday afternoon.
They are asking for […]

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Steve Helm, of East Petersburg, and Greg Weaver, of Lancaster, are taking the long way to the beach in Florida this year.
The two men will leave early Saturday morning on their bicycles with maps and a single change of clothing. They plan to arrive in Largo, Fla. twelve days later, on July 2.
Helm, 47, and […]

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More than 800 bicyclists weathered oppressive heat and raised more than $56,000 for the Lancaster Farmland Trust during the 11th annual Pedal to Preserve ride on Saturday, June 7.
The funds will be used in the Trust’s effort to purchase perpetual easements on 40 farms. The 11th annual ride was sponsored by First Priority Bank and […]

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The Lancaster Farmland Trust’s Pedal to Preserve charity ride will be held Saturday morning, beginning at 8 a.m., at Garden Spot High School in New Holland.
On-line advance registration for the 51-mile, 20-mile and six-mile rides closes at midnight. Saturday morning registration is also available. The advance registration fee is $25. Children under age 12 are […]

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Denver, Colo. bicyclist Chet Andes is making the 2,000-mile trek to his hometown, Denver, Pa., beginning Wednesday, to raise funds and awareness for cancer research.
Andes, a middle school technology-education teacher, will take a month to do the ride, covering between 50 and 120 miles each day. He plans to arrive in Denver, Lancaster County, on […]

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Lancaster County native Floyd Landis was expected to begin a six-day, 480-mile bicycle ride from Washington, D.C. to Charlotte, N.C. today in support of wounded military veterans.
The Road 2 Recovery ride was slated to begin at 10:30 a.m. with a send-off by U.S. Sen. John Kerry, a bicyclist and Vietnam War veteran, from the Walter […]

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The weather outside is frightful ….
So, it is appropriate the first charity ride is actually inside and in place. There will be spin-a-thon to benefit the Daniel’s Den playground project on Saturday, March 8, at Clipper Magazine Stadium.
There are already 125 riders registered for the eight-hour event. Many of those riders are registered for all […]

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