A motorcycle club for firefighters Sunday gave a $5,300 check to the Connecticut Burns Care Foundation summer camp for juvenile burn victims.
Members of the Renegade Knights MC, Battalion 2 Chapter presented a check for $5,300 to Foundation Executive Director Frank Szivos at the end of a separate motorcycle Poker Run, which ended at the Catholic War Veterans building in Derby.
The money represents the proceeds from an earlier pig roast and was raised by not just the Valley Renegade Knights, but by two other club “battalions” from New Haven and Plainfield.
The motorcycle club has so far donated a total of $10,600 to the Foundation from two years of benefit events, and Treasurer Greg Magrane, a Beacon Falls firefighter, said they have also donated money to other victims of fires and natural disasters.
Szivos thanked the group for their efforts and invited its members to visit the camp, located in Union, on Benefactors Day next summer.
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Renegade Knights President Ron Burgess, who is also the Ansonia Fire Chief, said 68 bikes were entered in Sunday’s event, which started in Seymour, looped up into the Litchfield Hills of northwestern Connecticut, and finished its 93-mile route in Derby.
The poker run Sunday raised money for local families affected by structure fires.
The motorcyclists each pay $20 to enter. They make stops along the route to collect playing cards and the riders with the highest and lowest poker hands at the end win prizes.
From the proceeds of the Poker Run and associated fundraising, Burgess said he expected the event would raise about $1,200.
