DILLONVALE — The first Sandy Lodi Memorial Benefit and Poker Run will be held Aug. 26 at the Homestead Event Center.

Registration will start at 11 a.m., and participants will leave at noon, weather permitting. Each rider will pay $20 to participate or $25 for a rider with a passenger.

The first stop will be at Flanagan’s Bar and Grill in Bellaire. Riders will then stop at Riverside Restaurant and Bar in Powhatan Point. The next stop will be at Route 40 Lumber Jaxe sports bar in Belmont, and the last stop will be at the Barton Trap in Barton.

After the last stop, riders will return to the Homestead Event Center for the benefit.

The poker run will be led by the Bellaire Warthogs Motorcycle Club. The Warthogs is a national nonprofit organization made up of active and retired law enforcement officers and first responders. The Bellaire Warthogs Motorcycle Club raises money for fallen police and firefighters and cancer and heart treatments.

Payouts will be given to those with the best and worst poker hands.

The benefit will take place immediately after the poker run regardless of weather. Attendees who did not pay to participate in the poker run must make a $10 donation at the door.

The benefit will feature an auction, raffles, music, a cash bar and food.

Local DJ Steve Clegg will be providing music from 6-10 p.m. Raffles will be drawn at 8 p.m. One of the raffles will be for a Blackstone griddle. Tickets can be bought in advance by contacting Joanna Violet, event organizer and daughter of Lodi.

Violet also plans to hold a bake sale at the event because her mother loved to bake. T-shirts will also be available for sale.

All proceeds will support people like Lodi with rare diseases and cancers.

The Homestead Event Center is located at 52325 Buena Vista Drive in Dillonvale.

Violet and her sister, Melissa Freeman Starkey, plan to host the event every year in memory of their mother.

Sandy Lodi, 76, of Barton died on March 30 at Ohio State Medical Center in Columbus.

For more information about the event or to make donations, call Violet at 740-232-8840 or Starkey at 740-391-9491.