Children stand with their bicycles they won during the Kingman Masonic Lodge No. 22’s 13th annual “Books for Bikes” giveaway that was held at the new Kingman Sears store Saturday. The bikes for books was established to recognize and reward school students for reading excellence and the local schools tailored these programs to select nominees. Some students were unable to attend the actual bike giveaway ceremony, but they will receive their bikes at a later date. The students were from Black Mountain, KAOL Intermediate and Middle Schools, Cerbat Elementary, Cedar Hills, and Manzanita schools. The children read books and presented book reports on them. Each student received one entry into the drawing for each book they read and another entry if they prepared a book report. At the end of the reading competition, the names of the winners were drawn randomly from the container containing the entries. The Masonic Lodge purchased the bicycles from the Kingman Sears at a reduced price and the 14 bicycle safety helmets also given away were purchased by the Kingman Shrine Club.
-Butch Meriwether
