Frank's Ride for Children
 Franks
Ride for Children is an annual ride that raises money
for the Make-a-Wish foundation. If you are only going on one local
ride this year, make it Frank's.
Franks Ride for Children has many
local supports and the list grows every year. Here you see a sign
posted at the 2004 Frank's Ride showing the major supporters.
Don't try and read it, there are a LOT of names/companies/organizations.
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Announcements and pictures:
About "Franks' Ride
for Children"
Many People have asked... "Who Is Frank?"
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"It's for such a good cause, I just hope
it gets bigger and better each year." ...Frank Aulino
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Well we'd like to tell you who Frank was and
why this run is named after him.
Frank Aulino, the founder of this event, was an active
member and officer of the Longmont Moose Lodge. He pulled his friends
and local community businesses together to raise money for children
who suffer from life-threatening diseases. A father and grandfather,
he was a man who cared for the welfare of children and went out of his
way to do whatever he could to help. In 1986 he originated a poker run
as a benefit for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
About the original ride.
Participants in the event started the morning off with a breakfast at
the Moose Lodge, and then they traveled along a specified course, stopping
at certain points to draw a playing card. At the end of the ride the
players turned in their 5-card hand with the hope it would be the prize-
winning highest poker hand. A large amount of money was raised on the
initial run and Frankie began making plans for the next year, which
turned out to be an even bigger event, with increasing revenues and
participants. He was just coming off the high of that run and planning
the next year's run when he died suddenly from a heart attack in July
1987.
Frankie's Moose brothers who were left picked the torch and organized
a run that was renamed in his honor. Renaming the run in his honor.
The Frank Aulino Ride for Children became
an annual event, raising funds for Muscular Dystrophy, Denver Children's
Hospital and the Make-A-Wish Foundation® of Colorado.
Buton Rudzik, who co-chaired the event for at least a decade after
Frank's passing and one of four of the last members remaining from Frankie's
original committee said, the run is a yearly memorial to Frankie and
what he believed in. "Frankie always loved kids and wanted to do
anything to make things better for them. We're carrying on the tradition."
...Buton Rudzik
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