Free bike raffle, food, games for all local children
(Seguin) – It’s all about the kids this Saturday during the annual Badges, Bikes and Tykes event at Max Starcke Park. The Seguin Police Department and the Seguin Fire Department will be hosting three hours of free carnival fun plus a bike raffle from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the large pavilion.
Sarah Wallace, the community engagement officer for the Seguin PD, says after a two-year hiatus due to COVID, the first responders are looking forward to bringing back the event and reestablishing those relationships with local children.
“We are all so excited here at the PD and I know the fire department is excited as well. We both like coming together for this and we love that it is a chance for our officers and our firefighters to interact with the kids in our community and it is just such a fun event. We are all looking forward to it so much,” said Wallace.
Wallace says kids ages 16 and under are invited to come out and enjoy all that the event has to offer including the chance of winning one of the 100 bicycles up for grabs.
“We have a bike raffle which is the big thing where kids get a ticket when they first come in and we do a random raffle drawing where kiddos are able to win some bikes. We have a ton of prizes, games and fair prizes. This year, we are going to be doing Dunk the Chief, so you have a chance to chief to dunk the police chief at our dunk booth. We will be giving all the kiddos lunch and drinks as it goes. We will have face painters. We will have a ton of stuff there. We will have the canines there, the Guadalupe County SWAT, the fire and the police tug where you get to pull one of the units so there is such a bunch of games and it is just so much fun from beginning to end,” said Wallace.
All activities are free.