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Annual Ride for Missing Children

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Over 300 people are cycling around Monroe County today in the annual Ride for Missing Children, a fund raising campaign for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Executive Director Ed Suk says the 100 mile ride ride includes stops at some 22 schools in the region.

"We've gone in ahead of time to those elementary schools and we've provided a full complement of educational services to the kids on abduction prevention, exploitation prevention and internet safety,"  he said.

Suk says all the money raised stays in Monroe County, and is used to provide safety education programs at no charge.

The goal this year is $150,000.

Credit missingkids.org

New this year is riders are asked to wear one sock, part of the Rock One Sock awareness campaign.

It's based on the notion that when one sock goes missing in the laundry, there's always hope to find it.

There's more at #RockOneSock

Suk says they are making tremendous progress in finding missing children.

He says the agency recovery rate was about 62 percent in the 1990s.

Now it's over 98 percent.