Assembling bicycles at the Jerusalem Township Fire Department on the Sunday after Thanksgiving has become an annual tradition for Josh Swanson and his family.

“The Friends of Lucas County Children's Services was looking for people to assemble bikes,” he said. “We picked it up and have been doing it ever since — even during COVID.”

Today, Mr. Swanson, an operating engineer with the fire department, is in charge of the event, which buys and assembles bikes that are given to children in the care of LCCS for Christmas. He said building bikes for those children is a way for him and his family to give back to the organization that enabled him and his wife, Ashley, to adopt two of their five children, Isaiah and Izabella — both of whom were among about 20 people who were at the build-a-bike eve

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