K.U.R.E. Ride 2013 Visits Ames

Posted by Tim Buenz

on Jul 27, 2013

The La Canada Flintridge Kiwanis AM Club has organized a project that we believe has exceptional meaning and purpose in our ever challenging world, and fits well into the meaning and purpose of Kiwanis – to help children, here and throughout the world.

In order to raise awareness of the Eliminate Challenge, our members have organized an historic motorcycle ride to a Kiwanis Club meeting in each of the 50 states of the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii - the KURE2013 ride, Kiwanis Unity Ride to Eliminate. We anticipate the ride to exceed 13,000 miles and to publicize an issue that Kiwanis International has partnered with UNICEF to support – the Elimination of Tetanus throughout the world. We have affectionately named our rider-in-chief, Bob Burlison, The Eliminator! The ride leaves from our club in La Canada, California, on Memorial Day, 2013, with an anticipated finish at the same location on Labor Day, 2013. We expect the ride to qualify as the "longest motorcycle ride in a single country" – a Guinness Book World Record, an achievement that would be a permanent reminder of the elimination of Tetanus worldwide. Visit the project website to follow the trip across the United States.