Velo Ball

So much fun! SABA’s annual fundraising event. This year at Sierra 2 Center.

I purchased a table and invited all the League Cycling Instructors who, in the past year, made my job as Education Manager so easy and they represented SABA in the most professional way: Joel, Winona, Kathy, Barbara, Deanna, Wes, Charlie, Matt, and Becky. The projects they worked on included: City of Elk Grove bike rodeos, Trails in Bloom community bike ride, Learn 2 Ride classes once/month, City of Rancho Cordova CEIF grant events, W Sacramento bike safety classes, Sacramento County Safe Routes to School San Juan USD, and more.

Joel, Anya/Jibe and husband Richard, Kathy:

Deanna, Mellissa/Jibe, Barbara:

SABA’s new Executive Director Rebecca Garrow. Also a friend for many years. I mentored her when she first started teaching Project Ride Smart. She was a natural, and quickly competent to take any role. I was thrilled when she took the ED position at SABA.

Bonus: I donated the Yuba Mundo cargo bike I’ve had in my garage for way too long. I bought it in 2016 and used it a bit with Sophia (age 7) and Avery (age 5). Thais and Lenin had it for a while. Tonight at the conclusion of the silent auction, the Yuba Mundo found a new home with a young family with a 2-year old.

Volleyball

The season is almost over. Tonight was the last home game and Senior Night.

And then .. surprise .. Sophia and a teammate sang the national anthem.

Sophia is one of the team captains and student body president.

Earn a bike

Jibe needed a last-minute substitute for an LCI (League Cycling Instructor) for the final night of Earn a Bike, a Jibe program that rewards participants, after they complete eight hours of bicycle driver education, with a sizable monetary reward to be used toward a new bike or bicycle-related supplies. We met at the bike tech classroom at Inderkum HS at 5:00.

Kathy was the lead. I rode mid-group. Becky rode sweep.

Great program in the N Natomas community. Fun to be able to help out at the last minute.

Learn 2 Ride

at Miller Park with Kathy and Joel. This is such a fun class to teach. One person started pedaling right away, she just needed to remember. I pulled her from the group and we went for a longer ride. As we rode all of Miller Park and around the block on Ramp Way, Front St and Broadway, I taught her lane positioning, hand signals, shifting, proper turns. Totally fun Level 2 lesson.

Walnuts

I love driving out to Justin’s to complete whatever the next task is. Justin gathered the rest of the walnuts from last weekend, watered, and weed-eated. I started with this

and finished with this.

And the first two brown grocery bags of this year’s harvest were taken home.