[YellowBike] news and a forwarded message

[Price Armstrong]

Hey there Yellow Bikers!  We're starting to gather the yellow bikes up for
winter storage.  if anyone's interested, they can bring yellow bike to the
courtyard outside of the yb space.  Kat promises one PBR per bike.

also, Earl sent me this message about the bike drive in the spring.  I'm all for
participating, though i don't know how much time i can personally devote to it. 
does anyone want to get in contact with this Julie Dobrow person?

lastly: this friday from 3 to 5 is a workshop at the smith bike kitchin.  i'll
be there, kat will be there, and i hope anyone else who can make it will be
there.

til next time,
Price

----- Forwarded message from Earl Alderson <ealderson at hampshire.edu> -----
    Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:07:12 -0500
    From: Earl Alderson <ealderson at hampshire.edu>
Reply-To: Earl Alderson <ealderson at hampshire.edu>
 Subject: [Fwd: FW: an amazing success]
      To: Price Armstrong <epa03 at hampshire.edu>

price
Thought you might know a hampshire person that would be into this.

Earl,

	Pass this along to Glenna as she seem interested in the
Emmanuel's gift story. My friend from Tufts, Juloie Dobrow, is
interested in doing a bike drive in Amherst in the Spring in conjunction
with the Tufts Alumni Assn and sending the bikes off to Ghana-any
interest at Hampshire?

Pete


-----Original Message-----
From: Julie Dobrow [mailto:jrdobrow at gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 5:06 AM
To: Crisci, Peter D [PVTC]
Subject: an amazing success


Dear Pete,

The full moon is shining bright,and I'm still glowing from the success
of yesterday.  Tired and very sore, but glowing.

We collected about 212 bikes in Lincoln, and about 250 bikes at L-S - a
new one day record for a Bikes not Bombs collection.  We also collected
over $2200 in donations to help defray the cost of shipping the bikes.

I feel like this was a fabulous community effort.  Kids were involved,
teachers were involved, parents were involved.  We had donations from
people who live in Lincoln and from people who found out about the drive
and came from other communities.  We had donations from all segments of
our Lincoln school community - Lincoln, Boston and Hanscom parents and
kids.  Elderly people and young people contributed bikes. Teachers came
in on a Saturday to help out.  All in all, it was just an amazing
effort.

I heard lots of wonderfully poignant stories from people about the bikes
they brought in.  I met some very cool people, including the woman who
is the head of Mass Bikes, who is a bike mechanic and came to help (and
a good thing, because we didn't have enough people to help with the
disassembling - I really could have used your help!)

The bad news about being so successful is that we're not done.  I will
be back there this morning at 9 to work on more bikes and load them onto
the truck; we will be up at the high school this afternoon to do the
same.

It turns out that Steve Bosco from Bikes not Bombs works in Holyoke
during the week, and he is VERY excited about doing a bike drive in the
Valley.  I think what we might try to do is a 2 day effort, one day in
Springfield, one somewhere in Amherst.  Time to start scouting locations
and looking at dates!

Anyway, so much more to tell you about this great event.  Hope your week
gets off to a good start -

J

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