I volunteered at this event this morning. Extremely well-organized with lots of volunteers. Sue Schooley from the Alternative Transportation Department welcomed everyone.Organizing the yellow-shirted volunteers (my category) for a picture.The purple shirts were experienced participants who had been planning the Bikefest for the past year.Orientation at the helmet-fitting station. Helmets were free.I was supposed to work here. There were 16 stations but 18 volunteers – I had nothing to do. After standing around for about 45 minutes, I toured the rest of the activities: safety presentation, bike IDs, obstacle course,and the nearby farmer’s market. Standing around feeling useless doesn’t work so well for me, so I went home where many tasks were waiting.

at Natomas Park Elementary. I am co-teaching with Gina Silvernale, a recently graduated LCI, this is her first Project Ride Smart teaching assignment. We meet with just two classes (out of 5 total) per day for about 70 minutes each. We watch a lot of informational videos followed by discussion and review.For this lesson, while Gina and I fit helmets on each student individually – at an incredible pace of about 2 minutes/helmet fit. Meanwhile, the rest of the students were divided into groups of 3 or 4 and given the task of labeling 26 bicycle parts using address labels (which didn’t come off the bike very easily after being wound tightly around certain bike parts by certain “industrious” students) or post-it notes (far easier to remove).

of the Rio Linda branch of the Sacramento Public Library – which was relocated to this site only a few years old and, part of which is located in my old 4th grade classroom at Rio Linda Elementary School (now closed).The Good Time Players:There was a quiche throwdown with LOTS of entries.The judges: author Maryellen Burns and the manager of RLOnline John Todd.They chose three winners: a staff member at the RL Library (man in black shirt), Deb Crowe (smiling), and Charlea Moore (laughing). At the far right is Sally McGrath, the RL Library branch manager.Director of the entire Sacramento Library system, Rivkah K Sass (wearing a burgundy blouse) welcomed everyone to the event.Nicole Brogdon from the Rio Linda Elverta Historical Society shared a brief history of the library as it grew in Rio Linda. I remember as a kindergartener walking across M Street to the cutest little house which served as the library in 1953. When I taught 4th grade at Rio Linda Elementary in the early 1970s, John Todd was one of my students!