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The `Ride for Roswell` will visit Grand Island next weekend.
The "Ride for Roswell" will visit Grand Island next weekend.

'Ride for Roswell' heads to Grand Island

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Wed, Jul 28th 2021 02:50 pm

It’s not too late to register for this year’s “Ride for Roswell,” which is Saturday, Aug. 7. There are two ways to experience the event.

•Join in at one of four locations: University at Buffalo, Grand Island, Niagara County Community College and the Outer Harbor.

•Or create your own experience by choosing to ride your own way. You pick the date, location and distance, and then ride to end cancer.

A press release said, “With no registration fee or fundraising minimum, anyone can join for a day of making a difference in the lives of cancer patients at Roswell Park.

Visit www.rideforroswell.org to register or donate.

Islanders Jackie Pritchard Glor and Margaret Ann Haller are heading up the “Ride for Roswell” rider experience committee along with Terry Carbone, a retired Roswell Park pediatric nurse practitioner.

“The West River Bike Trail along the mighty Niagara River is positively beautiful and we are excited it is such a popular route for the ‘Ride for Roswell,’ ” they said. “We are inviting the community to register for the ‘Ride for Roswell’ or come support the riders on Saturday, Aug. 7. It will be a wonderful site to see horse walking and/or trotting alongside the riders on the grassy median thanks to the Niagara County Sheriff’s mounted patrol. The committee has also added a new venue to perform and cheer on the riders, and we invite the community to join us in this great experience and tradition of the ‘Ride for Roswell.’ ”

Performers expected to be at the West River Bike Trail, northern overlook, near Whitehaven Road include:

√ 8:30-9:30 a.m., Fred Astaire Dance Studio, Williamsville

√ 9:30-10 a.m., Ms. Cathy’s Dance Studio

√ 10 a.m.to 12:30 p.m., Matt’s Music vocal performance team

Parking will be on West River Road. Attendees are asked to bring their own lawn chair.

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