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Even after rescuing over 500 bicycles, scooters, and stationary bicycles, there’s no slowing down for Gary and Myrna Rogers. They’re determined to continue exchanging broken and abandoned bikes for almost-like-new bikes for local children.
The program at Lansing Correctional Facility provides jobs for inmates and gives back in a very positive way. The Rogers not only find the bikes, but they take them to Lansing and donate the reconditioned bikes to the Augusta Community Caring Center.
The Augusta Lions Club is helping to pay for the gas needed for the trips to Lansing.
The bike program is just one of the many projects keeping the Rogers busy.
They are also collecting discarded shoes and delivers them to the Disabled American Veterans warehouse in Wichita. The shoes are weighed and 10 cents a pound goes to volunteer services at the Dole VA Center in Wichita. The funds are used for a number of projects.
“The money raised has already helped purchase a van used to transport patients and funds have helped furnish five hospice rooms,” Myrna reports.
Anyone who would like to donate their old shoes can drop them off at the Roger’s home, 1135 Euclid, or call them at 259-6346 to have them picked up. All shoes, except “jelly” types are accepted.
If the shoes are not wearable, the DAV will recycle them.
The Rogers and the American Legion, along with others in the community will also sponsor a Bicycle Safety Clinic on Saturday, March 17 and will follow the Bugs Bunny Club activities. A parent or guardian must be present to sign a legal release and participate with their child. The goal of the Bicycle Safety Clinic is to provide the residents of the community with instruction for safe operation of a bicycle.
Even after rescuing over 500 bicycles, scooters, and stationary bicycles, there’s no slowing down for Gary and Myrna Rogers. They’re determined to continue exchanging broken and abandoned bikes for almost-like-new bikes for local children.
The program at Lansing Correctional Facility provides jobs for inmates and gives back in a very positive way. The Rogers not only find the bikes, but they take them to Lansing and donate the reconditioned bikes to the Augusta Community Caring Center.
The Augusta Lions Club is helping to pay for the gas needed for the trips to Lansing.
The bike program is just one of the many projects keeping the Rogers busy.
They are also collecting discarded shoes and delivers them to the Disabled American Veterans warehouse in Wichita. The shoes are weighed and 10 cents a pound goes to volunteer services at the Dole VA Center in Wichita. The funds are used for a number of projects.
“The money raised has already helped purchase a van used to transport patients and funds have helped furnish five hospice rooms,” Myrna reports.
Anyone who would like to donate their old shoes can drop them off at the Roger’s home, 1135 Euclid, or call them at 259-6346 to have them picked up. All shoes, except “jelly” types are accepted.
If the shoes are not wearable, the DAV will recycle them.
The Rogers and the American Legion, along with others in the community will also sponsor a Bicycle Safety Clinic on Saturday, March 17 and will follow the Bugs Bunny Club activities. A parent or guardian must be present to sign a legal release and participate with their child. The goal of the Bicycle Safety Clinic is to provide the residents of the community with instruction for safe operation of a bicycle.
