Buffalo sportswriter Amy Moritz took on the 50-mile route at the August 21 Ride Grand Island to honor her friend and co-worker Allan Wilson, who is battling cancer. Read Amy’s report on her blog, Byline to the Finish Line.
Were you at The Ride Grand Island? Post your thoughts, pictures and video on www.RideConnect.org.
Thank you to the 7,500 riders, 1,500 volunteers and countless donors, partners and supporters who made The Ride For Roswell 2011 another success in support of cancer research and patient programs. This year’s Ride raised over $3 million, making it our best year yet. This is due to the enthusiasm and advocacy of thousands of supporters from Western New York and far beyond.
Check out some local media coverage of The Ride. Have your own photos, videos, or thoughts to share? Post ‘em here on RideConnect!
Photos on The Ride’s Flickr page
Most of our participants and volunteers go the extra mile for Roswell Park. But Bob Gang decided to go 400 extra miles and ride his bike from Maryland to Buffalo for this year’s Ride. Read his story, reported by Amy Moritz at the Buffalo News.
Many thanks to Ride media spokesman and WGRZ-TV anchor Adam Benigni for sharing some Ride news on WGR-550 recently! Listen to hear Adam discuss The Ride on the Howard Simon Show. (Ride talk begins around the 10 minute mark.)
Eight-year-old Patrick isn’t letting leukemia treatment stop him: this year he’ll take part in his second Ride For Roswell. Once again, his schoolmates are throwing their support behind him! Thank you to WGRZ’s Kevin O’Neill for this terrific story! Watch Patrick’s story.
Annalynn Surace is in remission from leukemia. She’s celebrating by once again leading Team Annalynn in this year’s Ride. Check out this great story about her journey from Adam Benigni of WGRZ-TV.
Ride For Roswell founder Mitch Flynn, president of Flynn and Friends, was recently honored for his work by Leadership Buffalo at their 2011 Leadership Values Awards. Flynn received the Openness to Change Award and was lauded for not only his professional work, but his efforts and advocacy on behalf of The Ride and the Western New York community as whole.
Also honored at the event was Ann McCarthy, formerly the Community Affairs Manager at Wegmans Food Markets, who has been a longtime supporter of The Ride through the event’s partnership with Wegmans.
Congratulations to these two well-deserving community leaders whose contributions have helped make The Ride a success! Read more about this year’s honorees.
How do you spread the word about your efforts for The Ride? Click here to check out this video created by John Guinane to help create buzz about his girlfriend Heather DuBose’s Ride. Credit for the beautiful background music goes to Steve Borowski. Making your own video? Share it with us on RideConnect!
Did you catch rider Bill Wallace and Extra Mile Club chair Bill Grande on WNLO-TV’s Winging It! Buffalo Style? Now you can watch video of their spot to learn what’s new at this year’s Ride.
Check out this great story about rider Andrew Carter and his efforts for this year’s Ride in the Tonawanda News!
By Danielle Haynes
The Tonawanda News |
Mon May 23, 2011, 05:24 PM EDT
City of Tonawanda resident Andrew Carter has quite a few reasons to jump on his bike and join the Ride for Roswell on June 25.
You see, of his six siblings, two brothers battled skin cancer while two sisters have survived skin cancer. A cousin, Tim, died a year ago of the disease, while a close friend, Ken, lost his fight with lung cancer in 2007. Another friend, Greg, died at the age of 32 from melanoma, an aggressive skin cancer.
“I have a lot of motivation to do this kind of work,” Carter said.
