Anne’s Bikes celebrates its 10th year

Published 6:48 pm Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Barbara and Billy Fallin, left, discuss the Anne’s Bikes for Children charity with Margaret Stewart, center, and Shannon Bell, right.

Barbara and Billy Fallin, left, discuss the Anne’s Bikes for Children charity with Margaret Stewart, center, and Shannon Bell, right.

Stewart launched the charity 10 years ago in memory of Anne Norman, who was often seen riding around Moultrie on her bicycle. The group gave away 190 bicycles, the most ever, at a reception Tuesday night at the Colquitt County Arts Center. Bell, executive director of Hero House, the county’s child advocacy center, compiled the list of needy youngsters who will get the bikes for Christmas.

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About 65 are given in honor or memory of a loved one, including a bike donated by the Fallins in memory of their son, Bill, who died in August at the age of 49. Behind Stewart and Bell are five bicycles being given in memory of Jonathan Garrett Edwards Jr., Ramsey Jones Pidcock, Aaron Reid Williams, Jordan Shane Croft and Alicia Brooke Norman, the young victims of a mass shooting on Rossman Dairy Road in May.

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