Your Vote Can Help Toms River Girl Win Special Bike

Most of us remember how we felt when we got our first bicycle.

A Toms River family is asking for help so their 5-year-old daughter who has cerebral palsy can have that feeling -- and all you have to do is vote.

Lillie Huff, who has spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, has been entered in a contest to win an adaptive wheelchair bicycle through Friendship Circle’s Michaela Noam Kaplan Great Bike Giveaway.

The aim is to “give children with special needs the same feeling you had when that shiny new bike arrived at your house,” the Friendship Circle website says. ”At Friendship Circle we want to give adaptive bikes to as many special children as possible.”

Lillie ”has overcome so many obstacles in her short life,” her mother, Kristi, writes. “Lillie is unable to walk or talk, but she sure can smile and laugh. Lillie doesn’t let her limitations keep her down. She loves to go out and explore. She is a social butterfly. Her favorite thing is to be outside! The joy that this bike would bring to her is immeasurable. I can just picture the laughs as she gets to ride with her 2 older brothers, feeling the wind in her hair. It would be priceless. Please help make this happen.”

To vote for Lillie, visit her page at the Friendship Circle website.