from the Tyler Morning Telegraph (link to full article)

By MALENA OGLES

The pink rubber handles and multicolored streamers blowing out the side made 6-year-old Shellie Milton giggle with excitement. It wasn’t just any bike. It was hers – all hers.

Thirty-six shiny new bicycles of varying colors and sizes were parked inside the Gentry Parkway Youth Center Thursday afternoon awaiting their riders.

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Future bikers are started with efforts like this.