Zephyrhills Daybreak Rotary Club donated 75 bikes with helmets and locks during the 2023-24 school year to ensure students would have a ride to school.
The club donated the bikes to Centennial Middle, Stewart Middle and West Zephyrhills Elementary schools.
Daybreak President Cory Sommers came up with the idea.
Sommers saw firsthand the need because of his role as assistant principal at Centennial Middle. He encouraged members to help raise the money to buy the bikes and make a difference in children’s lives.
Sommers led the club in raising money through its golf and bowling fundraisers along with a matching grant from the district Rotary Club.
Rotarian Manny Funes remembered Josh Borders, principal at Stewart Middle, telling him that students could not believe the school was giving them brand new bikes.
Borders convinced them that the gift came from the Zephyrhills Daybreak Rotary Club because that’s what they do.
