THE Lifecycle Regional Ride – a fundraising and awareness initiative to support people with leukaemia and other blood diseases – will arrive in Bombala on Monday, October 13.
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Riders will embark on the ride on October 7 in Canberra and will finish in Queanbeyan on October 15.
The ride will take them through towns including Braidwood, Batemans Bay, Bega and Cooma.
Once in Bombala, the riders will join with locals for a sausage sizzle in the Ginger Leigh Memorial Park before overnighting in the town.
The regional ride is a precursor for Lifecycle's Community Cycling Festival around Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra on November 8-9.
Lifecycle representatives met with Bombala Shire Council and Southern Area Health Service personnel, paramedics and police in Bombala last week to promote the event.
On the agenda for discussion were the regional and Canberra events, as well as the latest on a project which will see a purpose-built respite centre for people with blood diseases such as leukaemia built in Canberra.
Work on the respite centre, to be built on land in the Canberra suburb of Garran, is scheduled to begin early next year.
The respite centre, which will comprise self-contained accommodation, is currently undergoing DA approval.
While the capital cost of the centre will be met by the John James Foundation, money is needed for the operation of the much-needed facility.
The facility will be operated by the ACT Branch of the Leukaemia Foundation.
The centre will mean that people with serious blood diseases who live on the Monaro will have somewhere to stay when they visit Canberra for treatment.
