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Bikes, Trikes, Scooters, and Skates Drive at AUSD Schools
Arcadia Weekly May 25, 2016
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Donations of bikes, scooters, trikes, skates, and personal transportation and safety equipment can be dropped off at any Arcadia Unified school. All conditions are accepted. – Courtesy photo
By Jonathan Tsou
Arcadia High School’s Student Council Apache Commission (SCAC) is hosting a Bikes, Trikes, Scooters, and Skates Donation Drive. The fundraiser is to provide working equipment to the White Mountain Apache Reservation, in Whiteriver, Ariz.
Last semester, SCAC raised over $4,500 in donations during the Ed Schreiner Memorial Toy and Jacket Drive and the Fall Money Drive.
SCAC is currently advised by Mrs. Moore, a social studies teacher at Arcadia High School. There are 28 student members, including co-chairs Travis Chen, Katherine Hua, and Nathan Ly.
SCAC maintains and cares for the high school’s relationship with the White Mountain Apaches. The commission host four annual drives, the Fall Money Drive, the Ed Schreiner Memorial Toy and Jacket Drive, the Spring Money Drive, and the current Bikes, Trikes, Scooters, and Skates drive.
The commission also makes sure the high school symbol, the Apaches, is used appropriately by the sports teams and academic teams.
Anyone can donate their bikes, scooters, trikes, or skates at any Arcadia Unified school. Personal transportation and safety equipment are all allowed. All conditions are accepted, as broken transportation will be repaired. Mr. John Tallon, a community volunteer, donates his time, by fixing all the bikes to working condition and then driving them up to the reservation in July.
Travis Chen, a co-chair member of SCAC, said that “these bikes will be of benefit to the White Mountain Apaches.” The White Mountain Apaches reservation is extremely large and with donations they will be able to travel in a more efficient way.
Monetary donations and clothing donations will not be allowed. SCAC hosts an autumn and a spring Money Drive, and also a Toy and Jacket Drive at the start of the Winter Season.
Donations will be accepted until May 27. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/events/304024359929086.
