Bayview Masons award 12 bikes to Edgecomb Eddy students
Edgecomb Eddy student Takoda Dionne was the top reader in the school’s Bikes for Books contest this year by reading 77 books. He was rewarded for his hard work on June 8 with a brand new Huffy bike.
Dionne and 11 other Edgecomb Eddy students received new bikes from the Bayview Masonic Lodge in Boothbay. Other students who earned new bikes were Myles Whitfield, Dean Tegerero, Bella Morton, Arabella Hodgdon, Catherine Clifford, Emily Gosselin, Jackson Zehm, Henry Boudin, Anna Gosselin, Alli Guild, and Hunter Brewer.
Twelve students participated in the contest so each received a new Huffy bicycle, according to Principal Lisa Clarke.
This is the second year the Edgecomb school has participated in the program. In 2014, the Bayview Masonic Lodge began sponsoring a Bikes for Books contest at Boothbay Region Elementary School. The program expanded to the Edgecomb Eddy and Southport Elementary schools in 2015.
The Bayview Masonic Lodge will award 29 bikes to BRES students later this month, according to Lodge Master Stuart Smith. The Seaside Masonic Lodge began the local Bikes for Books program in 2013 as part of the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library’s summer reading program.
Maine Masons contribute an estimated 1,600 bicycles statewide each year to the Bikes for Books program, according to the organization’s website.
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