Coming Up: 12th Annual Lamar Hunton Memorial Motorcycle Ride

Paulding County Sheriff Gary Gulledge hosts the 12th Annual Lamar Hunton Memorial Motorcycle Ride Sept. 19, benefiting Georgia Sheriffs’ Youth Homes.

Cost is $35 per bike and $15 per passenger. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. at the Paulding County Senior/Community Center (54 Industrial Way North Dallas, GA 30132). The ride will leave at 10 a.m. and end back at the Paulding County Senior/Community Center.

There will be a full escort by a deputy, lunch, door prizes, drawing for a Glock pistol, and a 50/50 cash drawing. There are T-shirts for all pre-registered riders.

This ride is in memory and honors the life of Major Lamar Hunton, who founded the ride in 2004. Hunton, the jail administrator for the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office, passed away on Oct. 21, 2004, only days before the first ride took place.

The ride benefits Georgia Sheriffs’ Youth Homes, which aims to provide the best possible full-time residential care for dependent, neglected, abandoned and abused children of Georgia.

The homes are not reform schools or correctional institutions. They are warm, caring and secure places for a child to live. The Youth Homes provide a secure future for Georgia’s needy and worthy children, to give them love, guidance, discipline and all the advantages that is every American child’s birthright. The five campuses urgently need funding.

Georgia Sheriffs’ Youth Homes, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt child care agency.

Send your donation to:

Paulding County Sheriff’s Office

Lamar Hunton Memorial Ride

247 Industrial Way North

Dallas, GA 30132

Check should be made payable to GA Sheriffs’ Youth Homes. More info: Melanie Thompson at 770-505-5533, Tracy Parker at 770-443-3016, or Tom Murphy at 770-443-3015.

See more on the ride below

12th Annual Lamar Hunton Ride 2015