CAMDEN — At 10 a.m. Friday, April 8 in the Camden-Rockport Middle School cafeteria, Masons from the Rockport Masonic Center will pull the names of eighteen Camden-Rockport Middle School fifth graders who will be awarded new bikes for reading in the annual Bikes for Books program. Each participating student will also be given a bike helmet.

Money to fund the bikes and helmets was raised by Amity Lodge #6 and St. Paul's Lodge #82 and matched with a grant from the Maine Masonic Grand Lodge Charitable Foundation for Youth Activities. Local Masons also assembled the bicycles. Principal Jaime Stone will award students with signed certificates of participation. Kathy Foss, librarian at CRMS said in a news release, "It means a lot to have the local Masons encouraging kids to read and then rewarding students with new bikes, too. Our kids are so excited!" This year, thirty-two CRMS fifth graders read a total of three-hundred-forty-one books.