The industry's support-the-troops fundraising campaigns reach new levels next week in North Carolina with a two-day, 170-mile, CU-backed bike ride across the state.
Spearheaded by the North Carolina Credit Union League and Marine FCU of Jacksonville, N.C., the beneficiaries-to a projected goal of $100,000-is a three-year-old military support group known as Hope for the Warriors helping Iraq and Afghanistan vets who lost limbs.
"Yes, indeed I've become a huge fan of this organization since I've witnessed firsthand and talked with some of these scarred Iraq and Afghanistan vets as they try to recover when they return home," explained Craig Chamberlin, president/CEO of the $630 million Marine FCU, which serves Camp Lejeune.
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The Sept. 26-27 bike tour organized slated to wind up in Tanglewood, N.C, is the first of a series of "Hope for Warriors" events in 2009-2010.
All of the fundraising activities will climax June 17, 2010 with another CU-backed statewide race known as Ride for the Warriors. The Team Little Guy bikers will race over several days from Fort Bragg, hiking to all five major military installations in North Carolina and visiting CUs on the way ending at Camp Lejeune.
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