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IAM Guide Dog Dash
Motorcycle poker run participants Lee and Kathy Duncan react after drawing a playing card at the
last stop of the 5th annual Guide Dogs Dash Aug. 27 sponsored by Machinists Lodge 63. Thirty riders
(pictured below) participated in the 130-mile ride, which started at Pro Caliber Motorsports in
Vancouver and concluded at Love Leathers Outpost, in Ridgefield. In between was a scenic ride past
Swift Reservoir on Highway 503, through the town of Carson and along the Columbia Gorge. In the
photo above, poker run organizers John Hall (seated) and John Kleiboeker (left wearing baseball
cap), both of Machinist Lodge 63, check in the Duncans, both members of IBEW Local 48, and Dave
Tully, a business agent for Teamsters Local 223. The event raised $2,400 for Guide Dogs of America.
Guide Dogs was founded by the International Association of Machinists in 1948 in Sylmar, California
to provide guide dogs free of charge to the blind community. The organization depends solely on
voluntary donations, bequests, and fundraising events, such as the motorcycle poker run.
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