Katie Ride For Life
April 19

The Katie Caples Foundation will host the 4th annual donor awareness bicycling event on April 19.
Cyclists can choose from a 30km, 60km or 100km ride spanning Amelia Island and our neighbors to the south - Big Talbot, Little Talbot and Fort George islands.

Katie Caples was a student at Bishop Kenny High School
who died in a 1998 automobile accident.
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Last year, 365 riders of all ages took part in the Katie Ride For Life and raised over $102,000.
The endeavor of this event is to help underwrite an educational program to raise the awareness of the shortage of organs available for donation. The primary recipient, Life Quest Organ Recovery Service, is currently planning its fall semester of "Decision: Donation." This organ/tissue donation educational program will bring the message of the importance of making a donation decision to freshmen and sophomores in high school and their parents. Over 7,700 saw the presentation in the last year.

The Katie Caples Foundation was started in 1998 by the family of Katie Caples, a young high school student from Jacksonville who became an organ and tissue donor after not surviving the trauma of an automobile accident.

For more information on how you can become involved with the Katie Ride For Life, call 321-2720 or access their website at www.katierideforlife.org. For more information on becoming an organ/tissue donor call Life Quest at (800) 535-GIVE.