PORT TOWNSEND — Five Blue Heron Middle School students will have a brighter spring break after winning free bicycles through a program that promotes reading.
The Bikes 4 Books program, sponsored by the Port Townsend Masonic Lodge No. 6, awarded the bikes to students whose names were drawn from a bowl at a school assembly Friday afternoon.
Each name in the bowl was of a student who had completed a reading assignment.
One student from each of the grade levels at Blue Heron won a bicycle.
They were: Seamus Fraser, fourth grade; McKenzie Carney, fifth grade; Chloey Carney, sixth grade; Berkeley Hill, seventh grade; and eighth-grader Gunner Daost.
McKenzie Carney and Chloey Carney are sisters.
Masonic Lodge secretary Drew Coleman said the lodge intends to make the program an annual event.
He said the bicycles were purchased at the Sequim Walmart at a discounted price of $350.
Students were told that if the bike they wanted was taken, it could be exchanged for their preferred model.
None of the winners took that option and will receive the bikes they picked out at the assembly.
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Jefferson County Reporter Charlie Bermant can be reached at 360-385-2335 or charlie.bermant@peninsuladailynews.com.
