TWISTED SISTER Frontman Dee Snider Helps Bikers For Babies Raise $60,000 For March Of Dimes
September 14, 2009, 15 years ago
According to the Hartford Courant, nearly 900 bikers, their friends and families, hit the road on Sept. 13, during the Bikers for Babies and raised approximately $60,0000 in funds for the March Of Dimes.
Led by Grand Marshall Dee Snider of the band TWISTED SISTER, who is the March of Dimes spokesman for Bikers For Babies, the bikers rode 40 miles from Middletown to Westbrook, where they gathered at the Westbrook Elks club for a barbecue and live entertainment by the band Shovelhead.
The funds raised will support research and programs to help mothers have full-term pregnancies and for babies to have healthy lives.
The event was sponsored locally by Gengras Motorcycles and Trantolo & Trantolo; and WCCC, Fox 61, Buzzuto's, Shovelhead, 1800 Band, Double Fisted Band, Harbor Park Restaurant, Middletown and Westbrook Elks Clubs and the 2009 planning committee. For more information, go to www.marchofdimes.com or nacersano.org.