Ride For Life Success!

The 7th Annual Beth C. Wright Ride For Life, held Saturday September 10, was a great success. This year $22,379.00 was raised through sponsor fees, registration fees, and pledges collected by the 100 riders who participated in the various rides. All of the programs and services of the Beth C. Wright Cancer Resource Center are offered at no charge, so a successful Ride For Life is essential to help us meet our program expenses.

Thank you to Bar Harbor Bank & Trust, Poor Boy's Gourmet Restaurant, Nova Foods, and the Bar Harbor Bicycle Shop for being the gold sponsors of this year's Ride and to Acadia Realty Group, Friend & Friend, Freshwater Stone, James L. Pendergist, CLU, and Tradewinds Market for being silver sponsors.

Thanks also go to the organizing committee, led by Co-Chairs Meredith Friend and Tom Collins and composed of Marjorie Yesley, Jim Green, Cathy Planchart, and Amy Schwartz who put in many months of meetings to make the day a success. Thank you also to the forty-five volunteers who spent a good part of their Saturday overseeing the water stations, directing traffic, serving food, and setting up and breaking down the venue at the Surry School.

Special thanks to Mary Ann DeRaps, principal of the Surry School for the use of the school grounds, the Surry Fire Department and the Blue Hill Fire Department for their help with traffic control, and the Ellsworth Amateur Wireless Association for their help with communications during the Ride.

Congratulations to the MDI Hospital team captained by Kathleen Kotas and composed of Beth Dewey, Debbie Innes, Dean Read, Inge Smallidge, and Lindsey Young for winning the team trophy for most money raised. Maine Coast Memorial Hospital Cruisers, led by Molly Collins came in second in the team competition and the Down East Family YMCA Spinners led by Tom Collins came in third.

Kathleen Kotas, Beth Dewey, Matt Gerrish, Martha Drury, and Persis Williams were the top individual fundraisers this year