Spikes Ride For Sandy Hook Charity Car Cruise May 3rd!!!
 

George "Spike" is at it again and planning to top last years showing of over 2500 Participants & 4000 Spectators! For those that didnt attend last year this is an AWESOME cruise for a great cause! Groups from all over New England convoyed to Lime Rock Race Park to show their cars, watch live road racing & drifting All while raising over $26,000 for the victims families & survivors of this horrific tragedy. The main event page on facebook is located here: https://www.facebook.com/events/103780373126870/

I am the crew leader for the New Hampshire group that will meet at a to be determined location in southern NH and convoy down 495 south where we will meet up with George's group on the mass pike. From there we will all cruise together to Lime Rock Race Park. Anyone from or close to New Hampshire is invited and encouraged to meet with us. I am working on nailing down a location for everyone to meet at that will be convenient and close to rt93. The Facebook event page for my group is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/461236380665791/

Looks like we got some deciding to do. May 3rd is also the date for Mustang vs. F-Body day:

http://northeastf-bodyassn.com/showthread.php?t=5302

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Damn, tough call. They both sound like a good time.

Where's the meeting point for people in MA? I saw something about it being in Raynham but I'm not sure

Comment deleted because he got butthurt by what I posted.

I don't care about George or his charity stuff. I just wanted to let you people know about what I heard.
You can tell him about this Joe. I know he heard about this post from you. That is all. No, I'm not mad at you.

We need to fact check that. If that's true pretty easy decision but I have a hard time believing that. I really wanted to go last year and said I would go next, but there are 13 second mustangs to kill so. War is calling my name.

I would very much like to hear from anyone that can substantiate that.

Sometimes stuff gets misinterpreted along the way. There have been problems caused by two union officers not related to this charity, see here: http://www.newstimes.com/policereports/article/Newtown-police-union-head-suing-police-chief-4895421.php

Maybe this caused confusion and rumors to start flying. For any specific charity, I really have no idea.

edit: the article is referring to problems before the Sandy Hook tragedy though.

Good work David. Thanks

I am completely lost and confused :sign0165:

this was copied from my spikes right page sorry you got all salty Ron when I called you out. ;JUST TO KEEP EVERYONE IN THE LOOP I FIRST OFF WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FROM SUPPORTERS ATTENDEES SPONSORS CREW LEADERS CONVOY LEADERS MASS AND CT'S ATTY GENERALS OFFICE MASS DOT AND THE MA AND CT STATE POLICE FOR ALL THEIR CONTINUED SUPPORT; THE TEAM AND I WORK COUNTLESS HOURS OF OUR OWN TIME TO MAKE THESE EVENTS POSSIBLE AND ABIDE TO ALL LOCAL AND STATE REGULATIONS. AS WELL AS BE AS TRANSPARENT AS POSSIBLE WITH OUR MISSION, GOALS AND OUR INTENTIONS MY NUMBER IS AVAILABLE LISTED IN THE EVENT DESCRIPTION; I MAKE MY SELF AVAILABLE AT ALL TIMES DAY AND NIGHT TO ADDRESS ANY CONCERNS OR QUESTIONS THAT MAY ARISE WITH OUR EVENTS WE HAVE A SIMPLE GOAL HELP WHO WE CAN THE BEST WE KNOW HOW THROW ENORMOUS CAR SHOWS WITH A BUNCH OF COOL SH** AND INSTEAD OF GOING TO A FATCAT CORPARATION IT GOES TO THOSE WHO NEED IT. THERE ARE NO PAID MEMBERS OF THE SPIKES RIDE TEAM AND ALL INFORMATION IS PUBLIC. WE DONATE OUR TIME MONEY AND EFFORT TO MAKE THESE HAPPEN, FOR INSTANCE I PERSONALLY DONATED $5,693.76 TO THE SPIKES RIDE FOR SANDY HOOK CHARITY TO HELP WITH PUTTING ON THE SHOW AND THATS JUST ME WE ARE A TEAM WE ALL WORK TOGETHER TO MAKE THIS BIGGER PICTURE HAPPEN. I HAVE NEVER MET A MORE GENEROUS GOOD HEARTED BUNCH OF INDIVIDUALS IN MY LIFE THAN MY TEAM OUR SPONSORS AND VOLUNTEERS, AS WELL AS OUR ATTENDEES WITH OUT ANY OF YOU THIS WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE. I LOOK TO SEE EVERYONE AGAIN AT THIS YEARS EVENT; WE ARE PROJECTING OVER 3000 VEHICLES THIS YEAR AND WE ARE STILL MONTHS AWAY!
THANK YOU AGAIN
SINCERELY
George Spikes LeGrice and the Spikes Ride Team

also feel free to check with Massachusetts and Connecticut with whom I am fully registered with as well as the IRS with whom I am registered as a non profit event
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Spike, This article http://www.countytimes.com/articles/2013/04/03/life/doc515c836d6e98e671420994.txt?viewmode=default

lists 3 charities that the money is donated to:

EverWonder Children’s Museum
Sandy Hook Family Healing Fund
Adopt A Sandy Hook Cop

Are the charities the same this year?

Yes sir those were our initial choices we couldn't donate to the adopt a cop program because they were not an official 501 c3 in the Children's Museumwas something we decided to donate to at a later date after speaking with the attorney general's office resident in Newtown etc and the family healing find was working under the umbrella of a nother charities 501 c3 like I said we are very thorough and where the funds go to you can contact Scotthe's in charge of the Newtown Police Union and we also donated to the Sandy Hook Rotary Club Sandy Hook school which if you check on the event page has a very thorough description and mission statement of who they cover like I said there were tons of places we wanted to donny to put everything had to be ok,d by the Attorney Generals office

bottom line is I am re register this year my show is it go if it was any shady dealings from last year I wouldn't be able to do it again this year so if i did anything by not inviting to the state and local regulations why would I be able to do it again ....exactly

I had a very good interview on NBC right before I donated checks to the two charities I also have photos of the checks also have photos of me giving to charities letters from the charities recognizing my donations so like I said I'm upfront about everything if anybody would like to see any of this just send me an email I'll be glad to get it over to you but once again it's nice to know that there are some good intention people out there that are just trying to ensure the legitimacy of a charity but I'm on the up and up ;)

Very cool Spike. I'm going to do my best to attend this event.

Looks like a good time for a good cause

Well if someone is going to make a statement like that George should atleast be given the opportunity to stand up for himself, can you blame him for being mad? Saying he's ripping everyone off for 10s of thousands of dollars is a pretty substantial accusation wouldnt you say? Especially without any kind of factual evidence. I dont think you would appreciate someone spreading rumors around like that about you, I certainly wouldn't. I'd hope you arent mad at me for something you said.

Shit don't bother me but you won't see me there. :sFun_crazydance: :sFun_crazydance:

No worries Ron! I'll put in a donation in your name. lol.

....to be honest Ron, I'm glad you posted up because I'm pretty much the same as you. I get paranoid with charity. When you hear about some folks at the top taking 95% and then 5% going to the people (or animals, or rainforest, or wherever you intended the money to go), you get paranoid.

But with Spike, I'm totally glad that he jumped in, showed how he is running things and he showed what he is dedicating to this.

I'll be there.