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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ANNUAL TOY RUN FOR THE THREE KINGS WINTER FESTIVAL AND PARADE HOSTED
BY THE LATIN AMERICAN MOTORCYCLE ASSOCIATION, THE DIVISION STREET
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION, THE PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER,
TOYS FOR TOTS, AND THE CHICAGO PARK DISTRICT.

Chicago, Illinois - November 24, 2009- The Latin American Motorcycle Association (L.A.M.A.) a Moto-Touring club, will host its Eighth Annual Toy Run – Toys For Tots in Humboldt Park on Sunday, November 29th from 12:00pm to 2:00pm.

The toy run will begin at the L.A.M.A. headquarters at 3519 W. Fullerton Avenue where a caravan of motorcycles will carry toys to the Humboldt Park Field House located at 1440 N. Sacramento Avenue. The run will travel from Fullerton Avenue to Western Avenue heading south to Armitage Avenue then west to Pulaski, south toward North Avenue east to Western Avenue south to Division Street and then west again to The Humboldt Park Field House.

The Toys will be donated to the Annual Paseo Boricua Three Kings Day Winter Festival & Parade that will take place on January 6th, 2010. Those interested in joining the caravan or motorcycles and cars are asked to bring toy donations to the L.A.M.A headquarters by noon prior to the ride on Sunday. The organization strongly suggests no stuffed animals, only new unwrapped gifts.

Those interested in donating a toy for the Three Kings Parade are asked to bring brand new, unwrapped toys to several drop off Boxes at the following locations: The Humboldt Park Field House at 1440 N. Sacramento Ave, Monday – Friday 9:00am – 8:00pm, Saturday 9:00am-6:00pm, The Puerto Rican Cultural Center at 2739-2741 W. Division Monday –Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm and The Division Street Business Development Association at 2459 W. Division St. Monday - Friday 10:00am to 5:00pm.

 

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About The Division Street Business Development Association

DSBDA works to facilitate the organization of individuals in the field of business and commerce who are seeking to enhance their participation in the economic structure and the City of Chicago. As an association we work with microenterprise ventures to flourish and establish their business, as well as the continual development of Paseo Boricua, which is the heart of the Puerto Rican community.

About L.A.M.A

The Latin American Motorcycle Association (L.A.M.A) was founded in 1977 in Chicago’s notorious Humboldt Park neighborhood. From its inception L.A.M.A. was intended as a Moto-Touring club with truly Democratic ideas. LAMA is a club without borders. We have evolved into an “International Humanist Association”. A lone chapter until the first chapter was started in Miami in 1995; LAMA became a National Association in 1996 and an in International Association in 1999 with chapters in U.S.A., Puerto Rico, Mexico, Cuba, Uruguay, Venezuela, Argentina, Spain & Australia.