By Toni Miles
This holiday season, members of the Long Beach 2024-2025 Mayor’s Youth Council are heading up an annual bike drive to collect bicycles for local children and youth in need.
“Please help the Long Beach Mayor’s Youth Council collect bikes for the Long Beach community,” says Courtney Cuevas, community affairs director for the City of Long Beach. “This annual project started in 2018 with Long Beach’s first Mayor’s Youth Council. We are also collecting gift cards to Walmart or Academy [Sports and Outdoors] to purchase bikes for different age groups.”
Several businesses, including H20 Innovations and the Generator Store, are already on a roll, donating bicycles for this good cause.
Donations of bikes, helmets, skateboards, scooters, as well as gift cards to Walmart and/or Academy Sports are being collected until Saturday, December 14, at Long Beach Central Fire Station (645 Klondyke Road), the Long Beach Police Department (202 Alexander Road), and Long Beach City Hall (201 Jeff Davis Avenue).
The bikes will be distributed to needy or less fortunate students within the Long Beach School District for the holiday.
In past years, more than one hundred bikes have been collected during the annual Christmas Bike Drive. Members of the Mayor’s Youth Council hope the giving spirit will flourish this year, as well, especially considering all the local families who are financially struggling due to recent inflation.
Donations of bikes or a gift cards to support the effort can be dropped off at:
