RENO, NV (April 20) – The Silver Barons Motorcycle Club hosted their first Easter Basket Ride Saturday. The gathering point for donations was at Reno-Harley Davidson.
Once again Reno Harley Davidson was the focal point for a motorcycle club charity function.
Although not everything went as planned the event was a success and will lead to further charity functions like this.
Silver Barons president Seth Stout stands in front of the growing collection of Easter Baskets.
Asked about the effort president Seth Stout said, “We were originally based our of Virginia City and we’ve got a charter in California and the Nomad Charter here in Northern Nevada.”
The charity effort came after some thought about giving back to the community.
Members of the Silver Barons MC were collecting Easter Baskets to give to the Northern Nevada Children’s Cancer Foundation.
“We were trying to decide where we could help out, put our time and money into. The best choice we could find was the Northern Nevada Children’s Cancer Foundation so we went with that one,” he said.
During the morning riders arrived and many brought Easter Baskets that would be distributed to the kids in need. In addition the Barons had special T-Shirts for the event that were on sale.
All during the day people kept arriving, dropping off baskets and making the pile grow ever larger. Several youngsters also checked out all the goodies.
Two of the youngsters donating Easter Baskets were 8-year-old Eli and his 6-year-old sister Aliveah. Their mother brought them from California to donate the baskets.
Two youngsters were driven in by their mother so 6-year-old Aliveah and her 8-year-old brother Eli could donate two baskets to the collection.
The Silver Barons have other charity events they participate in although this was the first one for the Nomads.
“Our Virginia City Chapter does Thanksgiving for the seniors up there and we help out with Christmas,” Stout said.
Unfortunately due to other circumstances the ride never took place but the event was still a success.
Asked about this Silver Baron member Sean Kerr said, “We exceeded the amount of baskets we wanted to get for the kids that are part of the Foundation to the point where they’re also going to let us donate some to other charities we have in mind so that’s a huge success. Then the spirit of it was to raise the money that’s really what they needed was money and out t-shirt drive earned every dollar that we promised we could raise.
“So we hit our goal and we hit it early. I feel it was a great success other than the weather and a little lack of organization kind of fell apart on us at the end but it was our first event. I take it upon my shoulders to make it even better next time.”
Now the Silver Barons will examine how to make this an even better event for the next time. For further information about the club please check their Facebook page at, www.facebook.com/silverbarons.
• There were two car events on either side of the Silver Barons’ event.
This year is the 55th anniversary of Ford bringing out the first Mustang. On Friday the Reno Mustang Car Club met over at Summit Racing in Sparks.
At the Reno Mustang Car Club meet there were about every type of Mustang on display.
In the parking lot were almost every variation of Mustangs from the very stock to high performance editions. In addition the club held a raffle and had a cake celebrating that 55th anniversary.
This rather enhanced Mustang GT500 was also at the meed.
Next up for the club will be their “Rockin’ Street Hop” on June 1st at the Tamarack Junction Casino located in South Reno. For further information please check www.renomustangcarclub.com.
• As Easter fell on the third Sunday of the month Reno Cars & Coffee had its meet over at the Robb Drive Starbucks. As the weather has improved and word gotten around the turnouts for these meets has been growing.
Club organizer Lance Freitas mentioned that next month they’ll be testing a new location with an even bigger parking area.
At any Reno Cars & Coffee meet there is a variety of cars on display. Here two Lotus cars flank a Ford.
This time there were all types of cars. In fact one was a Ford Roadster flanked by two Lotus cars.
Another notable car was a 1975 Corvette Sting Ray owned by John Bidga. He’s done all he restoration work as well as painted the car himself.
The amazing thing is that he bought the car when Bidga was 13-years-old.
John Bigda bought this 1975 Corvette Stingray when he was 13 and has restored it. He also uses it as a daily driver.
“My dad already had 10-cars and I saved my money from a paper route,” he said. “When I bought it my mother felt I was going to follow my father’s footsteps. He was a mechanic and I’m a mechanical engineer so in a way I did.”
Despite the weather on Saturday and Sunday the events were a success with good turnouts.
For further information on the group please check their Facebook page at, www.facebook.com/renocarsandcoffee.
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