Riding the Top Gun Runway
Full Throttle Magazine
June 2009 Edition
Story By Randy Snyder

The Center for Children & Young Adults serves as the host organization and primary beneficiary for the event. Also receiving funds from the ride is the Georgia National Guard Family Support Foundation (GNGFSF). The Center operates long-term care programs for abused, neglected and abandoned children and youth. Boys and girls who have no one that can or will care for them have all of their needs met while at The Center. The agency provides: food, clothing, shelter, medical attention, educational assistance, recreational activities and coordination of therapeutic services with licensed clinicians for each child. The Center receives a per diem from the state of $101 while the actual cost of care per day per child is over $200. Funds generated from the Top Gun Ride for Children are essential in filling in this gap.

The GNGFSF provides assistance to the families of Georgia's guardsmen, our State's reservists and qualifying active duty service members that live here in Georgia. Each day they are reaching out to men and women who are returning home to no job and mounting family bills. The Foundation also seek to provided much needed aid to families left behind while their loved one is deployed.

Participation in the Top Gun Ride for Children is $30 per person. Children 12 and under are $10. Pre-registration is available and encouraged. All riders must be registered prior to departing Hooters. Valid driver’s license, proof of insurance and bike registration are required.

Last update on April 16, 2009 by Sherri Roberson

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