sun city biker - nov 2013

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November 2 13 Table Of Contentsovember 2 13 Table Of Contents

Readers Rides Pg. 12

Biker Sunday Pg. 7

Save The Willy Pg. 10

Making Strides Pg. 6

Cover Photo by: Ricky Carrasco Model: Sandra SanchCover Photo by: Ricky Carrasco Model: Sandra Sanch


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5/16

I received an email from a SunCity Biker fan regarding weather

roverbs. This person wants tonow how many weather proverbsknew of that I could share.

Those of us who make their liv-ng outdoors (and my die hard mo-orcyclist friends) must keep up

with the weather on a daily basis.Weather proverbs were createdges ago to help us remember howo forecast by observing animals,he sky, and nature. Many of the

olks back then would be amazedt how we predict weather today

with all our high tech weather

equipment including Dopplerradar, satellites and all ourweather computer models.

Here are some of the manyweather proverbs that have devel-oped over time some do affect

the weather, others, quite frankly,do not.

-Red sky at night, sailor's delight.Red sky at morning, sailors takewarning.

-Evening red and morning grayare sure signs of a fine day.Evening gray and morning red puton your hat or you'll wet yourhead.

-Rain from the south prevents the

drought, but rain from the west isalways best.

-Anvil-shaped clouds bring on a

gale (strong wind).

-A cloud with a round top and flatbase carries rainfall on its face.

-When small clouds join andthicken, expect rain.

-Black clouds in the north in win-ter indicate approaching snow.

-When there is enough blue sky topatch a Dutchman's breeches, ex-pect clearing weather

-Clouds floating low enough tocast shadows on the ground areusually followed by rain.

-Mackerel sky, mackerel sky,never long wet, never long dry.

-If three nights dewless there be,twill rain, you're sure to see.

-If heavy dew soon dries, expectfine weather; if it lingers on thegrass, expect rain in 24 hours.

-With dew before midnight, the

next day sure will be bright.

-If you wet your feet with dethe morning, you may keep tdry for the rest of the day.

-When clouds look like chickscratches or mares tails, it wrain soon.

W e a t h e r 1 0 1 By: Doppler Dave Speelman

Catch 'Doppler' Dave Spee

on KVIA Channel 7 or onlinwww.kvia.com for your mos

curate weather reports

Sun City

Here is an old weather proverb. Can you provide the answ

When smoke descends.

A. 2nd and 3rd week of October

B. Last Week of October, first week in November

C. First two weeks of November

D. Last two weeks of November

Weather Trivia

Answer: C Good weathe

Mackerel skmackerel sk

never longwet, neverlong dry.


6/16

On Saturday, hundreds of big, bad bikers were spotted cruising thetreets of the Mission valley in pink shirts, pink bandanas, even pink

oatees. More than just a fashion statement, the bikers wore pink to

how their solidarity for one of their own overcoming her battle with

reast cancer. The Making Strides against Breast Cancer charity run was

eld in honor of Isela Reyes. Its been only a few years since Isela re-

eived the news that she had been diagnosed. With the help from her

riends, family, and doctors, Isela is currently in remission and doing

much better.

At its worst, Iselas cancer had reached Stage IV, where the

ancer has metastasized, but where it is still treatable. She elected to

ave a bilateral mastectomy. She says that the most painful part of her

rdeal was the change in appearance. "From one day to another the

hange is drastic. People react to the loss of hair and all the other things

hat can change with the cancer and then treatment. My family was very

upportive. They never allowed me to think too much about and dwell

n it." She emphasized that her family was a big part of her recovery.

We really didn't cry much. They said, let's just make the best of it andet's move on. I had a lot of surgeries and procedures, but we still had

ur regular cookouts and parties."

One thing that Isela would advise for new patients is to get ed-

cated about their condition. "I asked alot of questions. Friends bought

me books. The doctors gave me alot of information. I would get sad be-

ause I would read about the side effects of the medicines, but it was

etter to know what I could expect to happen. It was scary, but I just

ook it a day at a time."

Martha Solis, from the American Cancer Society office in El

aso, also places importance on education. She explained the role of the

ACS in a patient's treatment. "We provide each patient with a specific

ortfolio that lays out the doctor's orders, information of nutrition,

hemotherapy, radiation, and other forms of treatment. We also haveupport groups and mentors for the patients. Isela wanted to know what

o expect, and what better way than to meet other survivors to give guid-

nce. Isela is already paying it back by providing support to newer pa-

ents."

The key to a faster recovery rate and survivability to any can-

er is early detection and education about ones own health. Breast can-

er is the most common type of cancer in women, and it can be

ereditary. We want to stress that each woman do their self exams as

oon as she is sexually active. As a woman, you have to get your

monthly exams on top of your yearly doctors exams, no later than start-

ng at age 21.

olis applauded Iselas education and preparation as being essential to

er recovery. She got the proper information, but more important washat she got checked and detected early. The earlier you get detected, the

uicker you can get treatment.

The biker run on Saturday raised around $2000, all that will be

onated to the El Paso American Cancer Society. Terry Almanzar helped

o organize the run in honor of Isela, her cousin. She was diagnosed in

010. When she started getting better, we decided to start this run last

ear. Now that shes in full remission, we decided to continue the run to

ontinue to bring awareness to the community. The money will be used

o get wigs, lymphedema sleeves, prosthesis, and treatment in general.

When asked if she had any other comments about her charity run, Isela

imply said, Its a blessing to be here. Id like to thank all the bikers

nd sponsors for sharing their time and donations.

With that said, Isela hopped onto her husbands Harley an

rode off with the rest of her bikers and continued the way shes dea

with this ordeal: with a smile and surrounded by friends and family

For more information about breast cancer and cancer in general: C

El Paso office of the American Cancer Society at 915-633-1231 or

www.cancer.org..

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hotos and story by: Ricky J. Carrasco


7/16

Photos and story by:

Ricky J. Carrasco

I have had the honor of followinghe biker community for Sun City

Biker for a little over 3 years. Ihave seen some extraordinaryhings that the bikers do for theommunity and for which they do

not receive nearly enough praise.Thankfully, most bikers do not re-quire it. One of the events I like to

how to non-bikers is Biker Sun-

day, where the Biker communitycomes together for themselves in ashow of what it means to be a

biker in El Paso. On that day,more than any other, patches,makes of bikes, colors.not ofthat matters. The ministers fromthe various spiritual organizationslead the rest in prayer and honoreach other as the family that theyare. They remember those whohave passed and hope for the bestin the time to come.

The culmination of the day iswhen the handmade crosses are

presented to the families of thefallen riders, after which several

bikes are turned on and revvedhard in memory. The subsequentsilence is followed by quiet cry-ing, not just from the families, butalso from the rest of the attendees,myself included. It is such a pow-erful moment that, regardless ofwhether you know of any of thefallen riders or not, you cant help

but be swept up in the tide of emo-tion.

Rather than me trying to distill the

day into a few paragraphs, the fol-lowing are but a few of the wordsfrom the attendees.Frank Bremmerman, president ofKings and Priests: The whole

purpose of Biker Sunday is to saythank you to the motorcycle com-munity for all that they do all year.They do their fundraisers for all oftheir charities like the Candle-lighters, March of Dimes, Reachfor a Star and many others. We in-

vite them out, feed them lunch andsay thank you. The second part ofthat is to honor our fallen brothersand sisters that have fallen to anaccident, illness or age. We giveout crosses to the families andhave a prayer for them. That ishow we come together. We gaveout 15 crosses. The families werereally grateful and they were sur-

prised at how the communitycomes together to honor theirloved ones.

Desiree Blake for her grandfatherSean Blake: He was riding homefrom Cabo Joe's. We're not surewhat happened. I think he lostcontrol and he hit a soft sand pitand was thrown from his bike. Hewas a fun guy. He was an amazingman. He taught me alot about life.He taught me to live life and enjoyit. He taught me how to work for aliving. To have a good work ethic.He was always there for us. Hewas a hard worker. For as long asI've known him, he's ridden. WhenI was little, I used to ride with my

dad. We used to go camping andgo on bike runs together. There arecountless times that we used to goriding for fun, for a cruise. He wasa very spontaneous man. If he hada chance and the time, then he wasready to go anywhere with any-

body. He didn't care who hadmoney, as long as they were hav-ing fun, that's what it was allabout.

Paul Charron (World Traveller),by his wife: (Paul passed away

due to heart attack. He was 75y/o.) He had been a rider forever.I think he got his first bike whenhe was like 11 or 12. He was re-tired military. We travelled every-where on the bikes. We went onall the bike rides, the toy runs. Justeverything that had to do with mo-torcycles, he loved it. [Hisdaughter Jill]: My dad did alot forthe orphanage (in Fabens). He wasknown as the World Traveller. Hedid alot to get donations for thekids for every season, Easter,Christmas, etc. He just grew up

loving bikes and getting evebody involved. He was just ally good dad. He was awesoHe was always looking after

ple who needed help. If theyhave the things they needed,would get together with hisfriends and find the donationfood, whatever. He was a vekind man. His friends and hiwould just love to get togethride out to the orphanage and

would bring things and just stime with the kids and just hout, you know? He did alot ogood for everybody.

Gale Reynolds for Don ReynMy husband has been ridingtorcycles since he was 16 yeold. He was 83 when he passHe passed of cancer August He was a million mile rider.and I are both Gold Wing GoRiders Association life memand I'll continue on with that(What kind of guy was he?) derful.

Angie Reyes for her son, RaFlik Reyes: He was killeddrunk driver and I still havengotten any answers. And I wanswers because I know my didnt kill himself, and thatthey keep telling me. My soneverything to me. He was a vgreat son, a father, a brotheruncle. He would do anythinganybody because thats just tway he was. When people w

call him Hey Ray, I need yohe would be right there, no mwhat. He helped a lot of peoraised my kids to always hel

ple if they need it. We dont that tomorrow, it could be usways told my children, you hthat person, no matter who i

Matt Hyatt, biker brother forArelleno in Maltese KnightsLarry was one of the foundethe Maltese Knights (a fire dment-based motorcycle club

passed away recently and unpectedly. It was a great loss He was very kind and gentleson. He went in for a procedand there were some complitions. He simply didnt makeout. Larry was big in stature

big in heart. About all I can that our loss is the Lords ga

just remember whenever weout, if anyone needed help, Lwould always be there. I canhope that in the future, I couas reliable as Larry was.


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Photos courtesy of Seed of Abraham

In October, several of the motorcycle ministries held a mountain top ministry at the top of Transmountain Road. The gathering, ledGreg from HonorBound Motorcycle Ministry, and supported by Seed of Abraham and Kings and Priests and others, drew many ofPaso's bikers to hear the Word and gather in biker brotherhood. Bikes were blessed and spontaneous prayer sessions could be seen

over by the light of the setting sun.

Sun City Biker

Mountain Top Ministry


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10/16

In October, the 1st ADR Riders along with CMA, hosted a charity run to "Save the Willy". Darrell Mond, president of the 1st ADR Rand owner of a restored 1953 Willys Jeep painted in Army colors. The Jeep has been featured in various Coalition events in El Paso,

for various runs and veteran's events. Casa Ford has donated the labor, but because it is a historic vehicle and Mond would like to keas original as possible, the ongoing restoration costs have piled up. Mond would like to have the Jeep ready as soon as the upcoming

Run and hopefully for some of the upcoming Veteran's Day events.

Save The Willy


11/16

33rd Annual LasCruces Toys for KidsMotorcycle Parade

Get your motors run-ningits time for the 33rdAnnual Toys for Kids Mo-torcycle Parade! 33 yearsago, a few guys strappedsome toys onto their motor-cycles, took a ride, and do-nated the toys to someneedy children. This smallgroup eventually becameover 2,000 strong. Thisyear, the Toys for Kids Mo-torcycle Parade, or ToyRun, as it is commonly re-ferred to as will take place

November 24, 2013. The

streets of Las Cruces willonce again come alive withthe roar of chrome pipesand the sight of hundreds ofleather clad bikers with

dolls, stuffed animals, toy cars, and baby toys strapped to handle bsissy bars and held by passengers.

The parade has a new venue this year, the Las Cruces ConventioCenter. Registration begins at 9:00 a.m. at the Mesilla Valley Mallat 11:30 and resumes at the convention center starting at 12:00 nooThe parade will depart from the Mall at noon, head south on Don Rwest on Missouri, south on Solano, west on University and turn soonto El Paseo and enter the parking lot of the Convention Center (rserved for motorcycles). Participants can also park across the stree

NMSU, Pioneer Bank or other nearby lots. Participants will be entained with music by Overcome and Taking Over, receive a barbeq

dinner and drinks, and can shop local vendors. The festivities alsoclude a bike show, grand prize drawing from Las Cruces Motorspo50/50 and leather jackets (donated by Barnetts Harley Davidson) rfles, silent auction and plenty of door prizes. Registration is $10.0a new toy valued at $7.00 or greater and the parade is open to motocle riders who must be street legal, registered and insured. Non-ridare encouraged to show their support by lining the parade route an

joining the event at the convention center.

Several years ago the partnership with Tresco Outreach and TraiServices (TOTS) was developed and TOTS became the primary beciary. TOTS is the only non-profit early intervention agency in DoAna and Sierra counties. In addition to the children in the TOTS pgram, thousands of Southern New Mexico children will benefit froToys for Kids Motorcycle Parade. Last year 22 additional agencieserve children benefited from the event. Over the past 10 years aloover a hundred thousand dollars has been donated from the parade

programs that make the holidays happier for thousands of childrenSouthern New Mexico. Please see toysforkids-lc.org for additionaformation or call Mack Adams at 575-527-7552.


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