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MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP: ‘Brotherhood Ride’ participants to make overnight stop at Princeton Elks Lodge #2129

By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer
Nearly three dozen bicyclists and their 18 support members that make up the Brotherhood Ride will stop overnight Sept. 12 at the Princeton Elks Lodge #2129 on Route 518 in Montgomery Township, on their way from Maryland to Massachusetts.
The Brotherhood Ride consists of police officers, firefighters and emergency medical technicians who band together every year to ride their bicycles to honor emergency first responders who have died in the line of duty. This year, the group is honoring 27 police officers and firefighters that died in 2014.
The bicyclists expect to ride 70 to 90 miles per day, and will meet with local fire departments and law enforcement agencies to show the spirit of “brotherhood.”
The team is leaving Sept. 11 from the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Park in Emmitsburg, Md., and will stop in Coatesville, Pa., later in the day. They will spend the night at a firehouse there.
On Sept. 12, they will leave the firehouse at Coatesville and stop at the Princeton Elks Lodge #2129, arriving at approximately 4 p.m. They will spend the night at the Elks Lodge and then leave for their next stop at another Elks Lodge in Marmaroneck, N.Y. They will stop in Westbrook, Ct. and Smithfield, R.I.
The riders are expected to arrive in Boston — their final stop — on Sept. 16.
Over the past seven years, the riders have honored the memory of 468 emergency first responders. The team has traveled more than 5,700 miles through 16 states, and has been hosted by more than 40 Elks Lodges nationwide.
Past Brotherhood Rides have taken team members to Charleston, S.C.; Florida; Houston, Texas; New York City; and Tennessee. The Brotherhood Ride is a public charity organization, and all donations — except for the cost of conducting the ride — go to the beneficiaries designated. 