Cops for Kids rolling into East Kootenay region

An annual fundraising campaign involving local police is getting underway.

The Cops for Kids Ride leaves Kelowna Friday, September 8 and will spend ten days cycling through the South Okanagan and through the Kootenays to Cranbrook.

An event will be held at the Tamarack Centre locally September 13 to celebrate the fundraising effort.

They’ll then return back through Kamloops and Vernon to Kelowna by Sunday, September 17.

Cops for Kids has been organized since 2001, with a couple of years of the event affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The annual ride has raised over $6.1 million to support local children in medical, physical and traumatic crisis.