How to go
To ride in the Hero’s Ride, visit www.herosride.com. Preregistation ends Friday, Aug. 21. Registration will be accepted until the day of the ride.
It’s been four years since Fairfield lost three of its sons in the Iraq War within 90 days.
Marine Lance Cpl. Taylor Prazynski died on May 9, 2005, Army Pfc. Timothy J. Hines died on July 14, 2005, and Marine Lance Cpl. Michael Cifuentes died on Aug. 3, 2005.
“Over the years it’s grown because of the number of soldiers we have from the local area that have been killed,” said ride coordinator Bill Meyer said.
Next weekend will be the fifth annual Hero’s Ride, which also honors two other fallen military men with Butler County ties: Marine Lance Cpl. William D. Spencer, formerly of Cincinnati, who died in Dec. 2006, and Army Pfc. James H. Miller, of Cincinnati, died in Jan. 2008.
Symmes Tavern on the Green plans to serve breakfast beginning at 9 a.m. for a nominal fee. A prayer will be said before the ride takes off from Village Green Park, said Stacy Wene, an event organizer.
“This is not just for motorcyclists,” Wene said. “We just want the public to come out.”
Proceeds of the ride, which ends with a free concert from 2005 Fairfield Idol Ashley Brandenburg and Fairfield native Brady Seals, will benefit Impact a Hero. In the ride’s first four years, almost $36,800 has been raised for the organization that offers emotional and financial support for wounded and disabled veterans and their families.
The event had previously been conducted in September. Last year, the ride was on Sept. 14, the day hurricane-force winds blew through the area. Two riders — Tom and Stephanie Bobinger — died when a tree at Hueston Woods in Oxford (the turn-around point) fell on them.
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