If you're a kid life isn't complete without a bike

10-year-old Vincent Massey student Cedar Maybe looks over his new bike during the ‘Earn A Bike’ program awards Thursday.

For the twelfth year in a row local Tim Hortons franchisees have teamed up with the North Bay Police Service for the ‘Earn A Bike’ program.

The program rewards deserving North Bay kids, between the ages of 9 and 12 years, who earned a new bike complete with helmet, bell and lock for their 30 hours of community service to make the community a better one for all to enjoy.

With assistance from LIPI and Hands organizations the North Bay Police Service Dare officers, who help coordinate the program and provide supervision while the children were out completing community service hours, selected the 15 deserving kids from the list of nominees.

For 10-year-old student Cedar Maybe, who is going into Grade 6 at Vincent Massey, wasn’t sure why or how he earned the bike but he is thrilled to be one of the lucky 15 chosen.

“Every now and then I would help out the janitor, pack stuff away like when it was the last day of school and help the teacher.”

Maybe says the bike means freedom to do some of the things he wants to this summer.

“I used to borrow my friends beat up bike and it wasn’t very good,” he tells BayToday.

“I get to go a lot of places … it’s going to be fun just to fun just riding this bike every place.”