Saturday afternoon at Hiram Johnson High School. A big school- and community-wide event.
I was so grateful Elaine and Terri volunteered to help out. It was quite busy at times. We took in about 30 bikes for repair and handed out free raffle tickets.
Our second week and not many bikes came in for repair, so our shift ended early. Diana came with me. She is the communications manager for SABA.
At Bike Dog Brewery:
L-R: Mellissa/Jibe (standing), Robert/Program Manager for SABA’s Ride Ready Bike Repair, Deb/Executive Director, SABA (standing):
Yesterday morning, I went to the SABA staff meeting and learned a receptionist was needed today for a bike repair clinic at Mather Veteran’s Village.
Mather Veteran’s Village provides critically needed veteran housing with supportive services located on the former Mather Air Force base in Rancho Cordova. It provides 50 permanent supportive homes for formerly homeless and disabled veterans plus transitional housing for many more. SABA brought 15 rehabilitated bicycles to give away.
My station:
Many happy customers.
Becky, Pierson and I met at Chevy’s on the River for lunch and chatted about potential bike education programs that SABA could offer to the public, non-profits, businesses.
This morning, I worked as the receptionist at Bike Doc at the North Natomas Farmer’s Market. We took in 51 bikes which were serviced by about 8 mechanics FREE of charge.
I was chosen for the League of American Bicyclists League Cycling Instructor spotlight for their March 21 e-newsletter. Thank you so much, Deb Banks, for nominating me! Working with SABA and Jibe for the past 8 years has been so personally rewarding and just plain fun. Great organizations and great people to work with.
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A rainy Sunday afternoon at Urban Roots.
Deb, Robert and Jeremiah:
Jibe contracts with SABA to provide mechanics for the many Bike Doc events in N Natomas. This afternoon, we met at Bike Dog Brewing to celebrate a very successful season.
Excellent pizza from Selland’s. Fun event.
Saturday morning, Cheryl, Cindy, and I rode to W Sacramento, 4th & G Sts, to meet a group of people who will soon be living at Washington Commons Co-housing. They broke ground this month, today’s ride was a celebration of their achievement.
Thank you Anne Geraghty for requesting and organizing this ride.
An unexpected surprise: we were invited to peek inside a not-quite-open-yet street art museum on C St – a space in between.
Isabella gave us a great impromptu tour:
Anne took this picture of the whole group:
Huge thanks to Cindy and Cheryl for coming along on this ride. Their help was invaluable and made all of us safer.
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