The public is invited to enjoy a community event featuring music, Santa and refreshments while helping to assemble 800 bikes that will go to eight community organizations providing holiday bicycles …
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Annual holiday bike build in Clark County rolls with changes due to COVID-19 pandemic By Scott Hewitt, Columbian Arts & Features Reporter
Published: December 12, 2020, 2:48pm
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9 Photos Rod Cook, left, helps load boxed-up bicycle kits into the back of a volunteer s pickup truck while Hayden Trent, right, repositions other boxes on Saturday morning at Taylor Transport in the Barberton area. Pre-registered volunteers drove though the warehouse to collect new bikes for home assembly. The bikes will be passed along to needy local families at Christmas. (Joshua Hart/The Columbian) Photo Gallery
The scene may have been different, but the spirit was exactly the same. Just ask Santa Claus, merrily boogieing to thumping dance tunes and schmoozing his way down the line of volunteers in cars who waited on Saturday morning, distantly and patiently, for boxes of brand new bicycle parts to assemble and pass along.