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District 4 Links City Commissioners
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Commissioner Sheehan's
The "Wheels for Kids" program was started in 2002 by Commissioner Sheehan after school bus routes from Reeves Terrace to several downtown schools were cancelled due to budget cuts by the Orange County School Board. Each year, sponsors Baker Barrios Architects, CitiSpace Orlando, Olde Town Brokers, Historic Creations, Urban Life Management Restaurant Group, Workscapes, Inc. and Massey Communications, along with Toys R Us work together to ensure those children in need have brand new bikes, new helmets and bike locks and chains to travel safely to and from school as an annual commitment. "These students deserve the best our community can give them," says Commissioner Sheehan. "I am very excited to be part of this great local effort and these dedicated sponsors to provide a safe means of travel to school for these wonderful children." Along with the generous, corporate sponsors who purchase the bicycles, helmets, bike locks and chains, Commissioner Sheehan works with the outstanding men and women of the Orlando Fire Department, Station 1, who assemble the 70-95 bicycles every year. After they're assembled, they are stored and then delivered to the children on the back of OFD Engines and Towers with Santa Claus and Commissioner Sheehan in tow for delivery in a procession led by Orlando Police Department's Mounted Unit and Orlando Fire Department's Engine and Tower trucks. In 2007, the bicycles were distributed on December 22nd and was the sixth year Commissioner Sheehan and our corporate partners gave away brand new bikes. And, as of that year, over 500 new bikes had been given away in the Reeves Terrace public housing community to children ranging in ages 5-15. In 2008, GAI Consultants stepped in and joined our other wonderful sponsors and we welcome them. Over 73 bicycles were given away on December 23rd, just in time for Christmas.
3rd Annual Wheels for Kids (2004)
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