District Information
UPDATE
56 bicycle riders with The Ride for Missing Children - Greater Capital District came to Lincoln Elementary this morning to stress child safety and abduction prevention as hundreds of students held signs encouraging them.
The riders wore colorful pink, blue and white outfits with the phrase 'Making Our Children Safer...One Child at a Time' on the backs. They began their trek at the SEFCU arena in Albany and came into Scotia over the Western Gateway Bridge, down Mohawk Avenue to Sacandaga Road. Sacandaga Road to Neal Street and Neal to Albermarle Road and the school. The were escorted and followed by state and local police.
After Lincoln, the group was headed to the location where former Lincoln student Craig Frear was last seen in 2004, behind the Cambridge Manor Condominiums, and on to schools in Waterford, Mechanicville and Tamarac. Their 100-mile ride ends at the State Museum in Albany near the memorial for missing and exploited children.
Check out the photos below from today's visit to Lincoln.
The Ride for Missing Children - Greater Capital District will be stopping at the Lincoln Elementary School on Albion Street/Albermarle Road in Scotia .
The 56 bicycle riders will be at the school at 8:45 a.m. on Friday, September 23. The event is coordinated by the Lincoln School PTA.
Lincoln Elementary School was chosen as one of the locations because Craig Frear, an S-G student who disappeared in June 2004.
After the stop at the school, they will continue to the Cambridge Manor condominiums - the location where Craig was last seen.
The Ride for Missing Children will ride 100-miles around the Greater Capital District Region to visit local elementary schools to bring a message of child safety and abduction prevention.
They ride 100-miles in one day, as one long unified team of Riders, riding 2 x 2 escorted by the New York State Police and local law enforcement of the jurisdictions through which they ride. The Ride stops at schools for educational Rest Stops, with "Silent Tributes" to missing children, recovered children, and fallen officers along the way.
The purpose of "The Ride" is:
▪ To honor the memory of all missing children
▪ To raise public awareness of the plight of all missing and exploited children and the need for child safety education
▪ To raise funds to support the missing children poster distribution process and mission of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children - New York/Mohawk Valley (NMEC-NY/Mohawk Valley).
Their website is: http://www.rideformissingchildrengcd.org/
