Surrey charity motorcycle ride to return after multi-year hiatus<\/p>\n
Published 11:00 pm Thursday, June 4, 2026<\/p>\n
After a seven-year hiatus, Brenden\u2019s Ride is returning to Cloverdale, the Lower Mainland and the Sea to Sky Corridor.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re bringing it back,\u201d said Marcia McNaughton. \u201cBrenden\u2019s dad, Baron recently passed away, so we\u2019re doing a memorial\/bring back Brendan\u2019s Ride now that Camp Squamish is back up and running again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Officially known as Brenden\u2019s Ride for Easter Seals, the ride, which includes motorcycles and cars, was a fundraiser started by Brenden Parker and his dad Baron Parker in 2014. They wanted to raise money to help defray costs so families that had children with disabilities, could send their kids to camp. Brenden, who has cerebral palsy, attended the camp for several years and noticed he was seeing less and less of his friends returning. That\u2019s when he found out the cost to go to the camp was increasing and that some families couldn\u2019t afford it. So his idea was to raise funds so those families could send their kids to camp each year.<\/p>\n
Brenden\u2019s Ride ran for six straight years until it\u2019s COVID-caused cancellation in 2020. Organizes are billing this year\u2019s event as the 7th annual. Sadly, in 2025, Baron\u2013a former NHL linesman\u2013passed away.<\/p>\n
McNaughton, who is on the board of directors for Brenden\u2019s Ride, told the Cloverdale Reporter restarting the ride this year is very emotional without Baron.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be tough on everybody because he and Brenden worked their butts off every year for this,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was one of their big loves and one of their big things to do together. So it\u2019s definitely going to be bittersweet, but everyone\u2019s going to ride in honor of Baron and raise money for what Brenden loves to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
This year the re-started ride is set for July 18. It will leave Rusty\u2019s pub in Clover Square Village and head to Easter Seals Camp Squamish in Brackendale.<\/p>\n
The ride kicks off at 8 a.m. with breakfast at Rusty\u2019s Pub. Once riders get to Easter Seals Camp they\u2019ll have lunch there with a live band, silent auction, 50\/50 draw, and more.<\/p>\n
McNaughton said anyone is welcome to join the ride. People can register through the website brendensride.ca. Cost to register is $40.<\/p>\n
She added that all the registration money, along with all the money raised through the silent auction, the 50\/50, and via donations, will go to \u201chelp get kids to camp.\u201d<\/p>\n
McNaughton noted they\u2019re looking for corporate sponsorships too. Potential sponsors can also reach out via the website, social channels, email, or phone.<\/p>\n
For more info, or to donate funds, visit brendensride.ca, email brendensride@gmail.com, call 604-910-1180, or visit Facebook.com\/brendensride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey charity motorcycle ride to return after multi-year hiatus Published 11:00 pm Thursday, June 4, 2026 After a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-716528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}