Brawley Community and Beyond Pull Together for Bike Drive
BRAWLEY — For more than 20 years, the Las Chabelas family has banded together with the community to gift bicycles to children in need each holiday season. What started as a small initiative by restaurant owner, Carlos Weir, has gathered support and grown into a local fundraiser that changes lives for children in the Imperial Valley.
On Saturday, Dec. 22, Brawley’s longtime family-owned restaurant, Las Chabelas, held its annual Children’s Christmas Bicycle Fundraiser Drive to distribute 159 bicycles to Imperial Valley children who have never owned their own bike. Fundraising for these bicycles begins in November through December by means of tri-tip plates, community donations and generous partners like Brawley’s Elks Lodge, all leading up to this special day.
Walking through the back patio of Las Chabelas, there was a magnificent array of bicycles in different colors and sizes, with training wheels or no training wheels, to suit children’s different needs. Children lined up waiting to take their turn to pick out a bicycle and head to the photo wall to get their picture taken on their first bike.
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