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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – APRIL 2022

 

Love Lifts Us Up helps fulfill the needs of underprivileged critically ill children and their families during a hospital admission. LLUU has been in existence since 2017 and has helped over 300 needy families. 

Recently, LLUU received a generous donation of 13 children’s bicycles and 1 adult bike, along with bicycle helmets and a bell installed on each bike, from Mr. Scott Doran, the owner of the Shrewsbury Bicycle shop in Shrewsbury, New Jersey.

Members of Love Lifts Us Up will be collecting the bicycles on Friday, April 1 and storing them, also through the generosity of another business, at Storage King on Rt. 33 in Neptune, courtesy Christine Weed, the property manager, until all the bikes can be distributed to children in the hospital over the next few weeks.

If you’d like to learn more about Love Lifts Us Up, please go to LLUU’s website at LLUU.org. 

The donation of 14 bicycles, helmets and bells from Shrewsbury Bike shop. Pictured are Pastor George Kaden, President of Love Lifts Us Up, Robert Martignetti (an employee of the shop), John Keating, member of LLUU, Scott Doran, owner of the Bike Shop, and Linda Dousis, Treasurer of LLUU

Storage King on Route 33 donated three months of rental space so we can store bicycles until they are distributed. Pictured are Linda Dousis, Treasurer of LLUU, Ms. Christine Weed, Property Manager of Storage King, and Pastor George Kaden, President of LLUU.