Closer to the Wall

White Trash Wannabes belt out a cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Fortunate Son," a classic rock staple, Saturday night at the Texarkana Fallen Bikers Memorial Wall 2021 Rally. This three-day event taking place at the Texarkana Arkansas Convention Center is part of the continued fundraising efforts to build a wall on a plot on South State Line commemorating fallen area bikers. They hope to break ground this year.
White Trash Wannabes belt out a cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Fortunate Son," a classic rock staple, Saturday night at the Texarkana Fallen Bikers Memorial Wall 2021 Rally. This three-day event taking place at the Texarkana Arkansas Convention Center is part of the continued fundraising efforts to build a wall on a plot on South State Line commemorating fallen area bikers. They hope to break ground this year.

TEXARKANA, Ark. A gathering of area bikers assembled for the Texarkana Fallen Bikers Memorial Wall 2021 Rally this weekend.

In a weekend with many with events and fundraisers, the organization managed to make money, advancing their efforts to fund the wall on the property out on South State Line Avenue commemorating area fallen bikers.

"This is our fifth of these kinds of events," said Mike Thacker, president of Texarkana Fallen Bikers Memorial Wall. "Obviously we had to skip the annual event last year, but we are going once again. This is our second at the Arkansas-side convention center. We've had others downtown as well as at the fairgrounds."

The organization exists to help raise awareness and road safety for all those sharing the road: truckers, motorists and bikers.

"We lost two more area bikers just this week," said Thacker.

They have been pushing toward this goal for some time, and this year, they hope to see some good things happen.

"Due to time lost last year, the city has given us an extension on the zoning at the site," said Thacker. "Next month, we intend to submit the blueprints for the monument and site construction to the city for approval. That's the next step. After that, we will continue awareness and fundraising efforts, getting us closer to actual construction. We would like to actually break ground before year's end."

The Texarkana Fallen Bikers Memorial Wall 2021 Rally continues Sunday at Texarkana Arkansas Convention Center-Holiday Inn, located at 5200 Convention Plaza Drive, Texarkana, Arkansas.

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