Wyoming Valley Motorcycle Club honors memory of Charlie Burke.

More than 100 motorcyclists on Sunday gathered at Riders World on Coal Street and took to the road to honor the memory of one of their fallen brother riders.

The Wyoming Valley Motorcycle Club staged its fourth annual Charlie Burke Memorial Poker Run, with subsequent stops at the Tombstone Inn in Mehoopany, the Lopez Winery, Ricketts Glen Hotel and Ragz Restaurant in Dallas.

Riders paid a $15 registration fee and picked up a playing card at each stop. The three with the best poker hands at the end of the run won cash prizes.

“We use this ride as a fundraiser for our club. But it’s a celebration of Charlie’s memory with all his club brothers and sisters,” said club secretary Wayne Miller. Online poker.

Burke died at age 40 from injuries suffered in a snowmobile crash in February 2003.

The club had a similar memorial ride in the spring for club member Mary Beth Richards, of Wilkes-Barre, who died in June 2005. Miller said he expects the club will begin an annual run next year for member George Thompson, also of Wilkes-Barre, who died three weeks ago.

“It’s a way to keep our deceased members’ memories alive. … You can see by virtue of all the motorcycles here, a lot of people loved Charlie,” Miller said.

Burke’s mother, Mary Jean Burke, 81, of Plains Township, said she was touched by the club’s memorial, and proud of her son’s involvement with the club and “other worthwhile projects.” Download poker wallpapers.

Burke’s sisters, Sue Horvath and Candy Kennedy, both of Wilkes-Barre, said bikers are often stereotyped in a bad light.

“They do a lot of good things for the community and people don’t realize it,” Horvath said.

Kennedy said her brother liked that the club promoted safety. “I don’t think he would ever go riding without a helmet or without his steel-toe boots,” she said.

For Motorcycle Awareness Month in May, the club ran public service announcements on 97.9 FM and posted a “Share the Road” message on a billboard in Wilkes-Barre, Miller said. Women poker players.

Miller said the club has a charity run for the Wyoming Valley SPCA every spring and has had runs every fall that benefited charities such as the Teddy Bear Patrol, St. Vincent de Paul Kitchen and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

Club members also attend other clubs’ charity runs, and Burke presence is missed, Miller said.

Club member Jim Desiderio described Burke as a “nice guy who liked to have fun and do a lot of different things, anything to support the club. Play online poker.

“I’m glad we can do something to help the club and his family. And it’s for a good cause. That’s what it’s all about,” he said.

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