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• texasnews<br />
Lone Star Ride shifts gears,<br />
moves to Microsoft in Irving<br />
11th annual HIV/AIDS fundraiser<br />
rolls out Saturday from new venue;<br />
pitstops include NorthPark Center,<br />
Round-Up Saloon, Flying Saucer<br />
DAVID TAFFET | Staff Writer<br />
taffet@dallasvoice.com<br />
For its 11th year, the Lone Star Ride Fighting<br />
AIDS has a new home base, new host hotel <strong>and</strong><br />
new route. But the beneficiaries remain the same<br />
— AIDS Services of <strong>Dallas</strong>, Resource Center <strong>Dallas</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> the AIDS Outreach Center in Fort Worth.<br />
LSRFA event manager Jerry Calumn said he expects<br />
about 100 riders for the two-day event that<br />
begins Saturday, Sept. 29.<br />
“It’s a hard year to raise money,” Calumn said.<br />
“We’re in the middle of the nonprofit recession<br />
that always hits three years after the regular recession.”<br />
Despite those challenges, the event has new<br />
sponsors <strong>and</strong> Calumn expects a “buttoned-down<br />
ride.”<br />
This year’s routes begin at the Irving campus<br />
of new corporate sponsor Microsoft. From there,<br />
riders head out Saturday morning on a 100-mile<br />
route that will take them down the scenic Campion<br />
Trail in Las Colinas to Royal Lane <strong>and</strong> across<br />
into <strong>Dallas</strong>.<br />
One of the morning pitstops will be at North-<br />
Park Center. The stop is sponsored by Paul Cross<br />
<strong>and</strong> the family of his late partner, Jim McCoy.<br />
McCoy, a longtime Lone Star rider, died suddenly<br />
of pancreatic cancer earlier this year.<br />
The stop will be at the northeast corner of the<br />
NorthPark Center parking lot near Park Lane <strong>and</strong><br />
Central Expressway. People are invited to cheer<br />
on riders there.<br />
For lunch, riders will head up Cedar Springs<br />
Road <strong>and</strong> stop in front of the Round-Up Saloon.<br />
Calumn said this is another great place to cheer<br />
on riders. He suggested arriving by 11 a.m. to<br />
catch the fastest riders.<br />
The Cedar Springs Merchants Association is<br />
sponsoring the lunch stop.<br />
“We’ll have white tents with outdoor tables,”<br />
LONE STAR RIDE, Page 13<br />
•<br />
CHARTING A NEW COURSE | For the last several years the Lone Star Ride Fighting AIDS has been<br />
based at the American Airlines Training Center in Fort Worth. This year it moves to Microsoft in Irving.<br />
09.28.12 • dallasvoice 9
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