Life of philanthropy ends with last bike ride for Roy Wiegand
Burbank ultramarathoner-philanthropist Roy Wiegand raised more than $25,000 for DigDeep’s Navajo Water Project before being struck and killed by a truck.
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Cyclist digs deep for Navajos
One sweltering day in Arizona, the thermometer on his bike read 130 degrees. Roy Wiegand completed the last leg of a 1,100 mile bike ride from Los Angeles to Albuquerque on Friday afternoon. Wiegand’s ride, which concluded at the Botanic Garden with a welcoming committee of his wife and friends, has raised more than $13,000 for DigDeep to install water systems in homes on the Navajo Nation. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal) Another day, Wiegand found himself racing three dogs down a highway past the towering mesas of the Navajo Nation in western New Mexico. .............................
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