Motorcyclists Ride the Reindeer Run for Toys for Tots

The annual Reindeer Run, a motorcycle poker-style run, was held Saturday with the participants streaming in to Concho’s Downtown starting at approximately noon Saturday.

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Above: It's a Polaris. (LIVE! Photo/John Basquez)

GypC Serna, event coordinator, said the run started at Family Power Sports earlier in the day. The short course was 87 miles long. After departing Family Power Sports, the participants dropped in at the Pic-N-Pac on FM 2105, then made a stop at the Stripes in Miles, and then at Eola schoolhouse.

As of around 1 p.m. Saturday, Serna said over $5,400 worth of donated toys for the U.S. Marine Corps’ Toys for Tots Christmas campaign. Marines met the bikers as they drove into Concho’s Downtown parking lot. Admission was $10 or a new, unwrapped toy. Most of the riders donated money and gave a toy.

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Above: The line of motorcycles outside Concho's Downtown Saturday for the annual Toys for Tots Reindeer Run. (LIVE! Photo/Joe Hyde)

More money was raised in a silent and live auction of gift items donated from around the region. By 4 p.m. all of the toys and money collected was delivered to the Toys for Tots central collection area at San Angelo’s H-E-B.

About 60 riders participated. “This is about the children in our community. We want to put as many smiles on their faces as we can,” Serna said.