Putting the giving in Thanksgiving
My, how it's grown.
The annual Turkey Run has come a long way from its first years of a few bikers delivering food baskets at Thanksgiving time.
On Sunday, 21 years after the inaugural run, 200 bikers delivered food baskets to more than 300 needy families.
"It's not just bikers. This is by the community for the community," said Dave Rodriguez, the Turkey Run organizer and owner of D-Rodz Auto repair shop, 402 Goodnight Ave.
"We did 150 food baskets last year at the Turkey Run and we still had to deliver 27 (food baskets) afterward. And this year we have 304? It's come a long way, if you think about when it started with only a few baskets," Rodriguez said.
Dave Wilson, a retired mechanic, was involved in some of the first Turkey Runs through the High Plains Harley Owners group.
"One year we had (a Turkey Run), but we only had eight or 10 baskets," he recalled. Then, "We got in really tight with Barney's Cycle Salvage, with Joyce and Barney Sparkman. We told them we wanted to do it with them and they got right on the bandwagon."
From there the Turkey Run has grown. From the Sparkmans it passed to Chuck Pewitt, who bought their business, which became Chazwick's Motorcycles.
And then responsibilities transferred to the Business Independent Group and now to Rodriguez's business.
Sunday's run was the result of two months of preparation. Under Rodriguez, the run now has a committee that oversees planning.
Collecting food for 300-plus families is no small task, and the committee has reached out to numerous stores and food providers as far away as Martinez Farms in Alamosa, which provided potatoes this year.
Bill "Wild Bill" Omlid said that while the event is a motorcycle run, its volunteers aren't all leather-clad riders.
"I mean, look at all these people. We've got guys here on motorcycles from BMWs to Harleys, but we're not all bikers. There are businessmen here, too," the burly Omlid said. "It's a community effort. It's a good cause. It's for the community by the community.
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