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The 36 Sears National Kids Cancer Ride cyclists riding across the country to raise money and awareness for kids cancer arrive in Toronto Saturday. The cyclists embarked on the world's longest charitable cycling event on behalf of childhood cancer on June 13th from Vancouver.

They're scheduled to complete the 7,000 km journey in Halifax June 24th.

The cyclists arrive in Toronto at approximately 3:30 p.m. with a brief ceremony outside the Sears store at Sherway Gardens. The public is invited to participate by coming to cheer on the riders, or to bring their bikes along and join part of the community ride-along with the national riders. Young cancer survivors participating in the ceremony will add their hand prints to national riders' t-shirts, a symbolic gesture of support that began in
Vancouver and continues in Toronto, Montreal and Halifax.

After the Sherway Garden event, the riders head to The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto under police escort. Canadians can track the national ride and become a fan of Ben, Sears bear mascot, who is 'along for
this coast to coast ride' and is posting daily reports on his Facebook fan page, Bens-Reports-on-Sears-National-Kids-Cancer-Ride.

The site is
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bens-Reports-on-Sears-National-Kids-Cancer-Ride/105812163828?ref=mfNo.

Last year, the Sears National Kids Cancer Ride raised $1.1 million from Canadians to fund both national and provincial pediatric haematology and oncology research programs. This year, the event hopes to increase that amount and is calling on all Canadians to participate to help achieve this goal.