[YellowBike] Yellowbikes & local Schools?

[itw02 at hampshire.edu]

right now all the info i have I sent out with the last email. They are looking 
for volunteers on fridays from 3-5pm at the hilltown Charter school (5-8th 
grade) in haydenville (25-30min drive 10 miles past north hamton). If you are 
interested in volunteering we can email yellobikes to see how people who want 
to do it can get there (car pool, public trans) and we can email the Hilltown 
Bike Club to tell them people are interested in coming. so give it another read 
and then email me back.
thanks for your continuing interest, ian


Quoting jks04 at hampshire.edu:

> Hey Ian,
> 
> Could you send me info on where this bike stuff is going down? That would be
> 
> awesome. Thanks! Jasmine
> 
> Quoting itw02 at hampshire.edu:
> 
> > Hey Yellowbikers,
> > 
> > The Hilltown Bike Club in Haydenville (West of Noho) recently conntacted
> us
> > 
> > with the hope of connecting our two programs. The following explains their
> 
> > project and how we could become involved with it. This could be really
> > exciting 
> > for anybody whose interested in bikes, youth, and community development.
> > Email 
> > Aaron or I and we'll get you hooked up with them.
> > Tires on the town,
> > Ian
> > itw02 at hampshire.edu
> > 
> > 
> > ---------------
> > Hilltown Bike Club - Mission Statement: 
> > HBS teaches students from Hilltown Cooperative Charter School to rebuild
> and
> > 
> > repair bikes from donated used bikes and bike parts.  These bikes will in
> > turn 
> > be donated back to families in the community who could otherwise not
> afford
> > 
> > bicycles.  HBS gives participants an opportunity to participate in a
> > meaningful 
> > community service project while developing the skills to service their own
> 
> > bikes, and fosters both their independence and cooperative working
> skills.
> >  HBS 
> > helps promote the principles of a sustainable community through the reuse
> and
> > 
> > maintenance of bicycles.  It also provides a viable and practical 
> > transportation option for Pioneer Valley residents.   
> >   
> > HBS Program Logistics: 
> > Currently, the club meets on Fridays from 3-5 PM.  We typically have
> between
> > 5-
> > 10 students each club session.  Currently, we've limited the club to
> grades
> > 5-
> > 8.  At club sessions, students have the opportunity to work on their own
> > bikes 
> > or on bikes that will be donated to the community.  We ask that students
> > spend 
> > atleast half of their time working on bikes that will be donated to the 
> > community.   
> >   
> > School Logistics: 
> > Hilltown Cooperative Charter School is located in Haydenville, on Rt 9, 
> > approximately 10 minutes west of Northampton (~25-30 minutes from
> Hampshire
> > 
> > College).  It is located in the former Brassworks Factory.  We have access
> to
> > a 
> > screened in pavillion to store bicycles and tools, and have permission to
> > hold 
> > club sessions in the school's "all-school" space.   
> >   
> > Hampshire Yellow Bike's potential role: 
> > The two coordinators (Noah and Jacob) of HBC are leaving in mid-March.
>  We
> > are 
> > looking for volunteers to take our place by supervising afterschool work 
> > sessions.  This is an opportunity to expand the Hampshire Yellow Bike
> > program, 
> > and to give Hampshire students solid experience teaching and with youth 
> > development.  Anyone interested in helping with this program is strongly 
> > encouraged to visit the school during one of the remaining work sessions,
> > (Feb 
> > 27th, March 5th, and March 12th).   
> >   
> >   
> > 
> > 
> > Newspaper article on the Hilltown Bike Club:
> > 
> > 
> > Youth recycle thoise old bikes 
> > By NANCY H. GONTER 
> > >From The Hampshire/Franklin County Republican  Monday, January 26, 2004 
> >   
> > HAYDENVILLE - Thirteen-year-old Liam N. Richardson rides a bicycle all
> the
> > time 
> > in good weather, but has never known how to fix it.  Now, Liam and 10
> other
> > 
> > students at the Hilltown Cooperative Charter School are getting the chance
> to
> > 
> > learn how to fix their own bikes and at the same time helping to restore
> old
> > 
> > bicylces that will be given to needy children.  
> >   
> > "We're going to be building bikes for people who can't afford them.  I
> think
> > 
> > bikes are a fun thing, and it would be nice to give bikes to people who
> want
> > 
> > them and can't have them," said Liam, a Northampton resident and an
> eigth-
> > grader at the school.  
> >   
> > Two members of the Hawley based Student Conservation Association, Jacob A.
> 
> > DeMott and Noah D. Pollock, who teach environmental education at the
> charter
> > 
> > school, are working with pupils after school in the Hilltown Bike Club.
> >  
> > This gives students an opportunity to participate in a meaningful
> community
> > 
> > service project while developing the skills to service their own bikes,
> and
> > 
> > fosters both their independent and cooperative working skills," DeMott
> said.
> >   
> >   
> > Pupils involved in the program said they love having the opportunity to
> learn
> > 
> > about bicycles.   
> >   
> > Kirin S. Bourgeois, 12, a sixth-grader from Goshen, said he has a few
> bikes
> > at 
> > home and they all need work.  Two were donated to the program.   
> > 
> > "I think I could have fun fixing up my bikes and maybe I could make a
> living
> > 
> > out of it and donate them to people who can't buy bikes," Kirin said.   
> >   
> > Harpo Marchand Jaeger, 12, a seventh-grader from Northampton, said he
> already
> > 
> > knew a little about fixing bikes because his dad taught him.   
> >   
> > "I'm finding I know a lot less about bikes that I thought I did and that
> this
> > 
> > is very fun to do.  I think it's really cool to be able to build your own
> 
> > bike," he said.
> > 
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