READING, Pa. – Engines revved up, and bike after bike spread some early holiday joy at the Children’s Home of Reading toy run Sunday.<\/p>\n
“To see the impact on these children is amazing,” said Allyson Kelly.<\/p>\n
Kelly and Fuego are among the bike riders donating holiday gifts to children and teens in need.<\/p>\n
“Most of us are parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles. Somewhere along the line, we’re associated with children. To see these children that need someone to care and know that we’re out there to care. Come support them, I mean it’s amazing,” said Kelly.<\/p>\n
“This is what part of a motorcycle club is– getting together and helping the community,” said Fuego.<\/p>\n
The event brings together everyone from church groups to businesses and even Santa himself.<\/p>\n
“Just seeing all their smiling faces, how we pull up there on our motorcycles, and they get to hear us roar in there, and it’s just a great time,” said Santa.<\/p>\n
Children’s Home of Reading marketing director Ashley Hugg said the toy run has a huge impact.<\/p>\n
“Basically, the goal is to help the kids have another Christmas. \u00a0A lot of the kids in our residential care maybe don’t have family or maybe aren’t able to get as many gifts for Christmas or have much,” said Hugg.<\/p>\n
Bringing smiles to everyone’s faces this holiday season.<\/p>\n
“It’s amazing to see the community come together. \u00a0We love seeing everyone come out and support the kids. \u00a0It’s all about the kids. \u00a0We want to make sure the kids really have a great holiday season,” said Hugg.<\/p>\n
Gifts are being collected through December 11th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – Engines revved up, and bike after bike spread some early holiday joy at the Children’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-309556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}