Children Of Fallen Riders Chased Away Your Blues

Thank You Overflow Entertainment – Michael Brown for putting together such a phenomenal video.   Nick Brown for your interviewing and for everyone who always makes this event such a success.

More video clips will follow of the entire evening.  Once again, thank you all !

 

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Our Reach

Why we do what we do, because there is a need and this is a letter that we received recently.  I will leave it at that, and let you read the words from a daughter of a fallen rider.

I have said it before, I will say it again…….what you do is GREAT.

I lost my Dad to a driver who needed gas more than she needed to pay attention to the road. She killed him. I was only 4 at the time. All my life I have asked questions about him. I didnt even know his real name!

Not one person in my family wanted to tell me anything about him other than he was a “biker” and “you know how they are”. NO!!!! I DIDNT KNOW “HOW THEY ARE”!!!!!! I do now. Three years ago at the age of 30 my life took plenty of twists and turns. One that I was unsure about hearing after hearing all this negative stuff about bikers as I grew up. God brought me to a set of circumsatnces that allowed me to get closer to finding out who my Dad really was. Through luck, bravery, God and my ability to be a stubborn Irish woman, I finally met my Dad’s biker friends. As it turnes out, this Summer is the 30th year they have made a 400 mile, all weekend run, in his name. I have gone two years now. I love my Dad’s club.

They are more family to add to my tree. They still love my Dad all these years later. They love me, call me family and have promised to help fill me in about my Dad. Everytime I am with these guys my face hurts form the sheer size of my smile. We visit his grave, they cry with me. I am very lucky to have my biker family. I asked my teen boy what he thought of bikers before he met these men. He did admit to going along with the idea that anything “biker related” must be bad. But he is very happy to have had the opportunity to spend time with them and see just how great they are.

I am truly thankful for what you do here. Maybe there is some four year old little girl who lost her Dad. Maybe her and her Mom struggle to keep things going. Maybe you guys have offered a helping hand. Maybe she wont grow up thinking her Dad died and nobody cared. You guys prove to so many that someone does care. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WHAT YOU DO. If I ever find myself in a financial position to help you, I will.

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Giving Back To COFR

We are raffling off the Anthony Gomes & Tallan Noble Latz Autographed Bar Stool!

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A woman walked through the doors at Leathers 4U before our Winter Event, she came in with a donation for our raffle.  Then a week later, she came in with more items for our raffles.    A lady with such a big heart! Just wanting to help a cause they believe in.

These donations always help us with each event, I always say a million dollars in quarters is still a million dollars.  This woman and her husband came to the event and bought a raffle ticket for the autographed bar stool of Anthony Gomes & Tallan Noble Latz.

They won the bar stool, and they were so excited because they just love Anthony & Tallan! Jessica came in to pick up the bar stool last week, and just adored it…later that afternoon, her and her husband came back in the store with their daughter and they “gave” back the bar stool.

Why? Because they want us to continue to raffle off the stool to get more money for the charity.  Thank you to this family for your support and your genuine generosity!

We are auctioning this stool off! Get your tickets now, this  will be a collectors item someday! With the signatures of two very awesome guitar players, that Children Of Fallen Riders introduced.  Anthony Gomes and Tallan Noble Latz. We will pull tickets on July 3rd, 2012 in honor of Anthony’s Birthday!

Winner will have to pick up bar stool at Leathers 4u – or if you are out of state pay for the shipping charges once the raffle is over!

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The Benefits Of A Benefit

Spreading the word about something you have a passion for, meeting new people and learning there are people out there that do care about what we are trying to accomplish.  No matter their reason.  The 3 of us a the helm of COFR all have different passions for doing this, this weekend I learned so many different reasons from our supporters of why they support us as well.  It’s those that help us continue on… let alone we can throw a party!

I would like to say thanks to Landmark Aviation for coming out and supporting us this past weekend.  I met Josh Lewis through Mike & Shawna Lack (some of our biggest & strongest volunteers) and Josh and I emailed back and forth with his desire to help Children Of Fallen Riders.

Landmark Aviation came through with flying colors (no pun intended) and left us a little speechless with their generosity! With this group, speechless is a little tough to do at times.

It is sponsors such as this that continue in helping us grow.  Many people ask “what can we do to help?” You can spread the word, and make sure that you bring friends & family to the events to see what we are all about.  You can help through-out the year by passing along the word of what we do.  You can like us on facebook at Children Of Fallen Riders and ask people to donate – a million dollars in quarters is still a million dollars.

We had a blast meeting new people this weekend, and spending time with old friends. Tallan Noble Latz did a screaming rendition of the star spangled banner and than Redline Blue’s Band kicked off the night with those smokey old blues tunes.  Fast Times The Band came on and brought us back to the 80′s.  Than we brought back a little bit of the 50′s with Elvis on stage, what a man! Eve to Adam straight from New York and through the snow storm in Ohio came on next and pumped up the crowd.  Anthony Gomes Band as always wooo’ed the crowd with their 3 piece band entertained us and sent an electricity up through the floor that vibrated right into your soul.

Thank you for your support, continue to pass along what our cause is about to each and every person that you can share our story with.

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Before The Event

Before any event, there is so much to do, and as we grow that becomes more and more evident.

The planning stages are the foundation for a succesful event, we have the best volunteers and supporters, and I just wanted to say.. THANKS IN ADVANCE !

 

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