While they’ll be arriving at local homes by sleigh later this year, toys were taken across town in style by motorcycles Saturday.
For the 29th year, the Toys for Tots Motorcycle Ride roared from one end of Thunder Bay to the other as more than 100 bikers loaded up their rides with toys. Although the toys go a long way to help local children at Christmas every year, this year means a little more given the amount of families still recovering from the floods in May Salvation Army’s Mervyn Halverson said.
“Many of them have two three four gifts. It’s exactly what the city needs because of the tough year that’s been here with the flood and everything. This is going to make a major difference,” Halverson said.
Halverson said he’s been from coast-to-coast and everywhere he’s been, the generosity of the biker community is the same.
“It’s just awe-inspiring,” he said as a long line of riders walked behind him with toys in hand. “It is amazing the caring hearts of the bikers.”
