Ride promotes safety, remembrance

Parents, children and members of the community gathered at Pepin Park Saturday to take part in the sixth annual Kellen Lund Memorial Bike Ride to promote driver awareness and bicycle safety.

The event is named after Kellen Lund, a local 9-year-old boy who died in July 2009 when he was struck by a tractor-trailer while walking his bicycle across the viaduct on 1st Street and 7th Avenue. Each year Kellen's mother, Jeri Zorn-Erickson, organizes it.

"It gets bigger and bigger every year," said Zorn-Erickson of the ride that started out as a celebration of Kellen's life for family and friends.

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