The original Nun Run got started in Houston six years ago.
This will be our seventh run in September and I work at a clinic for the underserved
and I came home one day talking to one of our other sisters saying, I need to get some
money for our children's projects, I need a fundraiser.
Her brother is a Harley biker and she was talking to him on the phone at the time and
he heard the conversation and said, talk to the bikers, they're generous people, they'll
help you.
So we took the idea and we thought about it and we thought, I don't know.
So we knew a couple of bikers that worked at St. Joseph's Hospital in Houston.
So we took the idea to them and they took it to their biker groups and as they say,
the rest is history.
We've been riding for, this will be our seventh year, the very first ride was the year of
Katrina and Rita.
We had 50 bikers and made $10,000 and thought the world was great.
And since then we've expanded, the idea has gone to other of our sister groups in different
cities.
We've got, this is the fourth place here in Lake Charles now that is using the Nun Run
as a fundraiser.
So we're very happy that our idea is successful and that we can share it with everybody.
And we're also here to support the group and ride and have a good time.
Start your engines.
All right, have a good time.
More than 200 bikers rolled into the Chanel International Airport for the Lake Charles
and not a real run with the Nuns on Saturday.
Each biker received blessings from Bishop, John Gleam, Burlose and started their ride
here in Roxane, Virginia.
Organized by Christus St. Patrick Foundation, the fundraising event included live bands,
vendors, a rice and gravy cook-off, and a motorcycle and car show.
The money that we're raising is going to help us to build a Center for Healthy Living and it's a
center that we will have close to the hospital for everybody in Southwest Louisiana to be able
to go and be able to look at their health and prevention, from treatment, from detection,
and even from lifestyle wellness. It's going to be a facility where there'll be all kinds of
programs for education about health, for kids to get involved in learning about, healthy choices,
healthy eating, healthy eating. We will have diabetes management, we will have a Heart Star
Heart Center, and lots of information about cancer and just how to stay healthy and be healthy,
and if we're not how to get healthy.
