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LISTEN BACK TO THE STORIES OF TWO YOUNGSTERS, DEXTER AND DARCEY WHO RAISED MONEY FOR THEIR CHOSEN CAUSE BY RIDING A BIKE. · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Okay, so moving on now now, I want to tell
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  Speaker 1: you I've got two short stories here about local youngsters
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  Speaker 1: raising money for a good cause. Back in April, twelve
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  Speaker 1: year old Dexter Dre decided he wanted to do something
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  Speaker 1: for others as his brother Riley has suddenly passed away.
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  Speaker 1: The family placed a bench in Riley's memory on the
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  Speaker 1: Dover Marina Curve. And if you've never been there, when
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  Speaker 1: you look at the seafront, if you look extremely to
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  Speaker 1: the right, there's a peer that runs out there. But
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  Speaker 1: if you just go on the other side of that,
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  Speaker 1: there's what they call the curve and it's a lovely
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  Speaker 1: kind of open venue and it's buzzing in the summer.
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  Speaker 1: They have music events there and stuff like that. So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Dexter thought to himself, how can I help other families
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  Speaker 1: who might be unable to afford a similar memorial to
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  Speaker 1: love ones that have passed away. Now, he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: cycle from London to Brighton, as he knew his granddad
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  Speaker 1: and friend of mine, mel Kemp, had done it a
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  Speaker 1: couple of times, but he found out that he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: old enough. So it was decided with the help of Meal,
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  Speaker 1: to cycle the same distance fifty four miles up and
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  Speaker 1: down the length of the Dover Seafront, which Dexter successfully
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  Speaker 1: completed and raised four thousand pounds. Dexter has recently been
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  Speaker 1: recognized by the k M Group and the Kent Community
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  Speaker 1: Foundation and been given the Young Volunteer of the Year
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  Speaker 1: Fundraiser Award. And during the week I was chatting with
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  Speaker 1: Dexter's dad, Tim, who they both came into the studio
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  Speaker 1: back in April and we had a brilliant morning with
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  Speaker 1: Dexter telling us his story and we had pictures taken.
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  Speaker 1: Dexter was pretending to be a DJ, a bit like
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  Speaker 1: I do on a Saturday morning sometime. Anyway, Tim told
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  Speaker 1: me that they've purchased and given away trees and bushes
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  Speaker 1: along with memorial plaques the people can plant in their
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  Speaker 1: garden to remember their loved ones. Numerous people have benefited
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  Speaker 1: and they still have some money left over in the
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  Speaker 1: pot which will be added to the fund to pay
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  Speaker 1: for another bench as Dexter plans another challenge. Don't quite
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  Speaker 1: know what it's going to be yet, but we will
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  Speaker 1: keep you informed as soon as I do. So just
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  Speaker 1: got to say it's a magnificent achievement to Dexter and
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  Speaker 1: all his family. And it was Dexter's idea to a
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  Speaker 1: unique idea on his own coming up this a twelve
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  Speaker 1: year old. How good is that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's you know, that's fantastic. He's lost his brother
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  Speaker 2: and he wanted to do something. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the other story about a child who raised money
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  Speaker 1: by a bike ride and concerns Darcy Rowe, who was
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  Speaker 1: a ten year old pupil from Cheriton Primary School in
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  Speaker 1: Church Road and her mum, Adrianne, is a former guest
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  Speaker 1: at the sports show when she came in and told
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  Speaker 1: us about her under fourteen boys Optimist hockey team who
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  Speaker 1: went on to win a national title. Now, back in August,
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  Speaker 1: there was an arson attack in the school and the
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  Speaker 1: forest style teaching area was destroyed. The forest school, as
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  Speaker 1: they call it, consisted of outdoor wooden pagoda style hearts
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  Speaker 1: and benches and they had like a little fireplace they
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  Speaker 1: could use in the middle. They held it for classes
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  Speaker 1: and meetings when the children escaped the confines of the
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  Speaker 1: classroom and took lessons about wildlife, geography, animals and similar
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  Speaker 1: sort of stuff. It was all burnt down in this
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  Speaker 1: art and attack. A huge loss to the school and
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  Speaker 1: to the pupils. Now Darcy felt that she needed to
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  Speaker 1: do something to help, so she decided to do her
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  Speaker 1: own twenty five k that's fifteen and a half mile
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  Speaker 1: bike ride to raise some money to add to the
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  Speaker 1: GoFundMe page, which was started by former pupil Tommy Waman,
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  Speaker 1: which now stands. The last time I checked it was
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  Speaker 1: around three thousand, five hundred pound of the ten thousand
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  Speaker 1: pound target. Now Darcy completed her ride with her dad
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  Speaker 1: Stephen and added a three hundred and sixty five pound
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  Speaker 1: to the pot. So massive, Well done, said Darcy, and
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  Speaker 1: a mum Adrianne, told me that they helped. They hoped
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  Speaker 1: to start work on the forest school next Saturday. So
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  Speaker 1: there you go, Adie. That's two examples of children. It's
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  Speaker 1: not just adults you know that have seen something that's
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  Speaker 1: really upset them and decided to do something on their own.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how good is that? What fine example? Do
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  Speaker 1: sit to one?
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  Speaker 2: I mean ten years of h I mean yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's no mean fate. But for a ten year old either, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: very fair play to both of them. Well done, yeah, and.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck to you Adrian on your take it you're
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  Speaker 1: playing today your first game of hockey back in the season.
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  Speaker 1: So okay, Adrian
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  Speaker 2: Okay I said earlier at the start of this