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Suicide Awareness and Prevention Charity hosted by Street Thunder Cats MC Tampa


This year is our 6th Annual Suicide
Awareness Ride. First, we would like to thank everyone that has attended
our charity benefit in the past. Last year we raised over $5K and since
2007 we have raised, with your help, nearly $25K. Our Suicide Awareness
Ride is on November 10th . The meet up spot for the ride is at club 92
off of Falkenberg and Hwy 92 in Tampa. The ride is open to cars and
bikes, independents, members and families. If you are not participating
in the ride, you can meet us where the ride will end which is at

Peabodys located at 15333 Amberly Dr. in Tampa at 2PM. We chose this

charity in 2007 because a dear friend of ours, Maggie Dennis, committed

suicide and we needed the knowledge of how to prevent this from

happening to other families. The Suncoast Yellow Ribbon Suicide

Prevention and Awareness Program recently fought for the reprisal of the

Presidential bill wherein the President of the United States will not

and does not send a letter to the families of service members who've

taken their own lives. This may sound small to the common person, but

for this organization and others like it, this is a huge step forward on

the road less taken which is the fight for suicide awareness and

prevention. What we need is maximum participation this year. We've been

able to slowly but gradually increase the funds that we generate for our

charity. Every year we want to take it to the next level. For those of

you that attended last year, you know we had a lot of nice giveaways.

This year we will have even more large giveaways including cruises. A

small donation of $15 will make a big impact for our charity, your

donation will include prepared food and drinks.

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