Buckeye Career Center students organize and inventory donated bikes during last year's Share-A-Christmas collection. (Buckeye Career Center)

UHRICHSVILLE (Tusco TV) - Uhrichsville officials are taking advantage of an opportunity to clean out the city garage while making the holiday season a little brighter for local families.

Mayor Rick Dorland says council recently gave him permission to donate the city’s collection of unclaimed bicycles to Buckeye Career Center’s Share-A-Christmas bike drive. He says it’s amazing how many bikes they end up with that nobody comes to claim.  

"Over the years when I was a police officer, we got some expensive bikes that were turned in or the guys on patrol found laying along the road or whatever and brought in. I’m talking two, three, four, five-hundred-dollar bikes, and know if I had a bike worth that and it ended up missing I’d want it back but I don’t know. I can’t explain why we accumulate so many," he says.

Dorland says the bikes, about 20 in all, will be fixed up by BCC students and passed out at next month’s Share-A-Christmas toy distribution. He says it’s a great effort that has benefitted numerous families over the years.

“I’m thinking last year they gave 148, 158 bikes away and over their 20-year history was in the thousands," he says.

Buckeye Career Center’s bike drive runs through December 12th. Anyone with new or gently used bikes to contribute can bring them to the career center during school hours.

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