MOTORBIKES will be heard all down Commercial Street this weekend with the annual Limestone Coast Toy Run underway.
This year the Toy Run has partnered with local charity Four Reasons Why to distribute donations to families by providing Christmas Kindness Family Voucher Packs.
The packs will contain four vouchers to the value of $150 per pack including a $50 Coles voucher, $50 Kmart voucher, $30 Foodbank voucher and a Wulanda Family Day pass.
The vouchers will support families to shop for their own Christmas gifts for their children, purchase food and enable family activities over the holiday period.
Four Reasons Why aims to produce 200 packs and distribute them through Sunset Kitchen, ac.care, Centacare, Mulga Street Primary School, North Gambier Primary School, Melaleuca Primary School, Pangula Mannamurna Aboriginal Health Organisation, MacDonald Park Primary School and Kalangadoo Primary School.
Millicent North Primary School and Newbery Park Primary School will also receive packs to hand out.
Times and routes for this year’s Toy Run is as follows:
7am Mount Gambier/Berrin to Millicent to Naracoorte will meet at Endeavour in Mount Gambier/Berrin
8am Mount Gambier/Berrin to Naracoorte to meet at Endeavour in Mount Gambier/Berrin
8am Millicent to Naracoorte to meet at Skate Park on Ridge Terrace
9.45am Naracoorte to Penola to meet at Sheep’s Back Museum
10am Millicent to Penola to meet at Skate Park on Ridge Terrace
10am Mount Gambier/Berrin to Penola to meet at Endeavour in Mount Gambier/Berrin
11.15am Penola to Mount Gambier/Berrin to gather to leave together from side of road near hospital
Route from Penola will be turn right into Pinehall Avenue, turn left onto O’Leary Road, turn right onto Jubilee Hwy West, turn right into Endeavour Mount Gambier/Berrin
MAIN RUN:
12pm meet at Endeavour in Mount Gambier/Berrin to group bikes and cars separately
12.30 pm the main run will depart
The Main Run route will be from Endeavour in Mount Gambier/Berrin along Graham Road turning left onto Commercial Street, turning right at the Main Corner traffic lights onto Bay Road, turning right onto Railway Terrace and turning left into the Railway Lands.
