(Submitted photo/Marie Wiens)

By Ben Tompkins

Youth Fundraiser

Second annual Carrot River Bike-a-Thon raises over $2,000 to support youth in the community

Oct 6, 2021 | 12:50 PM

The Carrot River Young Women’s Club hosted their second annual Bike-a-Thon last night, Oct. 5 and they raised over $2,000 to support youth in the community.

The Bike-a-Thon had roughly 20 kids partake, in which they received donations for their bike rides from friends, family and members of the community.

Marie Wiens, president of the Carrot River Young Women’s Club, said that the Bike-a-Thon isn’t usually what they would put on this time of year, as it is the second year in a row that this event had to be adapted to this format, due to both the pandemic and scheduling issues.

“We have been traditionally doing a Skate-a-Thon this time of year,” said Wiens. “Last year we had to get a little creative because there was a 30-person limit on the rink facility. We then decided on a Bike-a-Thon and it went well last year and this year we had planned to go back to the Skate-a-Thon, but we ran into some scheduling issues, so we jumped back to our Bike-a-Thon.”

According to Wiens, the club puts on a wide variety of different types of events throughout the year, some of which are service events that don’t fundraise and are just for fun and for things to do in the community. This event, however, was one of many that go towards supporting youth in the community.

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“The club has an event a month and they alternate between service events and fundraising events and we also do a lot of donation things that support youth in the community. That’s the purpose of this club,” said Wiens.

Miens said that the kids would receive pledge forms that they would put their donations on, which would then put them in draws for prizes. When they then showed up for the Bike-a-Thon, Miens explained that there was both a long and short route, along with an obstacle course to warm up and improve the riding skills of the young children.

“We have kids pick up pledge forms and go around to friends and family, or members of the community, to donate and support their bike rides. They then bring those forms back to us and the top three sellers get prizes and everyone else is put into a draw for smaller prizes,” said Wiens.

“When they showed up, we had an obstacle course set up in the fenced-in basketball court at the elementary school, so that was just kind of challenging their skills. They then set out on their bike ride, we had a long and a short route, the short route took us through about a quarter of the town and the long route was basically the whole town that they went around.”

Although this wasn’t quite the plan that the club had originally had heading into the fall, they were still quite happy with the results and the participation of everyone involved.

“The Bike-a-Thon is great,” said Wiens. “Because it’s outdoors and you’re not as close to everybody and the weather co-operated and it was beautiful. It worked out perfectly!”

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