WKU Bike Riders to Benefit Alzheimer's Research

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Updated: 7:49 PM Jan 25, 2010 WKU Bike Riders to Benefit Alzheimer's Research A group of Western Kentucky University students will be cycling their way across the country in the name of Alzheimer's research this spring. Posted: 7:42 PM Jan 25, 2010

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The fundraiser is in memory of Barrett Cummings, the grandfather of ride founder and WKU student, Tyler Jury of Elizabethtown.

The group hopes to raise $75,000 to benefit the Greater Kentucky/Southern Indiana chapter of the Alzheimer's Association, and to increase local, state, and national awareness of the disease.

In late May, the students will ride about 3,200 miles from Oceanside, California to Yorktown, Virginia.

In addition to Jury, local riders include Mitchell White of Bowling Green.

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