2011 marks sixth year for Salvation Army’s Buck$ 4 Bikes drive

Oklahoman business columnist Paula Burkes writes of her plans to add a donation to the Salvation Army’s Buck$ 4 Bikes drive to her holiday tradition

 
BY PAULA BURKES | Published: December 21, 2011   

What was your best Christmas gift as a kid?

For many, it was a bike. Santa brought D’Anna Pulliam a brand-new black English Racer when she was 9. And Dannie Lamb, 66, remembers — when he was 8, maybe 10 — waking to a shiny new Schwinn, and promptly adding baseball cards to its spokes.

photo - Volunteer Dannie Lamb tightens the handle bars of a donated bike. PHOTO BY PAULA BURKES, THE OKLAHOMAN
Volunteer Dannie Lamb tightens the handle bars of a donated bike. PHOTO BY PAULA BURKES, THE OKLAHOMAN

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Dec 20Salvation Army volunteer D'Anna Pulliam talks about the...

Pulliam and Lamb were among volunteers who gathered at a former Walmart in Midwest City Monday to tag and tune up bikes being distributed to needy families in the Salvation Army’s annual...
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