Robert Flowers, who delivered the bikes along with Paul Smith, said the Lodge always likes to be involved in the schools and help kids in any way it can. "We do it because we like kids," Flowers explained. "It's a good way to promote attendance and be involved--it's our pleasure to participate like this."
The donation comes just days before the kickoff of School Attendance Month, in September, and hopes to inspire physical activity as well as the more direct goal: keeping students at school as much as possible.
"Hopefully if a kid wakes up with a little runny nose or something he or she might think about these bikes and decide to come on to school," Flowers says.