May is Bike Month and new this year to Highland Rim Bicycle Club will be Ride For Reading (RfR).

In partnership with the awesome folks at RfR in Nashville, we are bringing this event to Tullahoma during the Ride for Reading week (May 5-11) This project is to benefit area children who may not have books in their home and to promote cycling as a good way to stay healthy.

Around town you will start to see collection boxes for nice, new and used children’s books, appropriate for Kindergarten through 5th grade. The first box was set up at Celtic Cup last week, others will be listed on our website and Facebook page when they are up and running.

During the RfR week, we will meet at the old West Middle School (behind the Civic Center) with our bikes equipped with backpacks, bike trailers, panniers’ or other ways to carry books on your bike. We will load up with books and take them on our bikes to elementary schools. The dates/times/schools are being determined and will be listed here as plans come together.

We hope you will want to be involved. Please read more about this great opportunity on the RfR website www.rideforreading.com.

Special thanks to Maxine Capezza, Jessie Schwer and Julia Harrison, the Highland Rim Bicycle Club RfR committee. And special thanks to RfR and Better World Books for providing the bulk of the books for the first delivery in our area.

Please let Julia Harrison secretary@hrbike.org know if you would like to help deliver books or help in any way.