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Weekly Announcements 1/20/11

1. MLK Day of Service recap: Deepest THANK YOU and congratulations to
wonderful volunteers
2. Help make Athens an official Bike Friendly Community- take a quick
survey! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MMB25FY
3. BRP takes a short break

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Deepest thanks and congratulations to wonderful MLK Day of Service volunteers

The BRP wants to extend a big thank you to all who participated in the MLK
Day of Service with BIkeAthens. We had 22! people volunteer their time and
we managed to completely clean our workspace (a huge task after the
Holiday Bikes for Kids push), recycle and scrap about 20 bicycles, and get
a great start on building a new set of wall shelves to hold our parts and
supplies. We couldnât have done it without you! Thank you! and hope to see
you again soon.

Photos from the event!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=263658&l=236013fdfd&id=126325948567

To learn more about honoring MLK Day with volunteering in our community,
check out the following article that also features BikeAthens:

http://oconee.patch.com/articles/monday-holiday-becomes-day-for-volunteering

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Help make Athens an official Bike Friendly Community- take a quick survey!

As you have been hearing in previous weekly emails, we are in the process
of trying to get Athens designated an official Bike Friendly Community
through the League of American Bicyclists. Just in case you forgot, this
has all sorts of great benefits including promotion of our community on a
national level,  benchmarking and technical assistance for the local
government, and feedback on what we can do to enhance the cycling
environment (for more details you can go to this website:
http://www.bikeleague.org/programs/bicyclefriendlyamerica/communities/index.php

Weâve already got an awesome group of volunteers working on counting all
the bike racks in Athens (thanks folks!! and if this piques anyone elseâs
interest or volunteer spirit shoot us an email at admin [at] bikeathens.com),
and now we are hoping to get some feedback from a larger pool in order to
fill out the rest of the application. Part of this is describing both why
Athens is a great place to bike and where we could use improvement. And
what better way to get an accurate answer than to listen to you folks,
some of the most active (and proactive!) cyclists in the community. The
survey is just two open ended questions long so it can be as short or as
long as you would like. We need responses by January 27 in order to
include them, so donât procrastinate!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MMB25FY
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BRP takes a short break

The Bicycle Recycling Program is taking a short break after working
overtime on the Holiday Bikes for Kids. The BRP shop will probably be
closed until March. Hopefully when we reopen weâll be getting ready to
move into our new space at the Chase Street Warehouses!
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Keep in touch at our blog http://bikeathens.blogspot.com/ and facebook
page http://www.facebook.com/pages/BikeAthens/126325948567

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BikeAthens appreciates your continued support towards its mission of
improving transportation options in Athens-Clarke County. Get more info,
join, renew your membership, or volunteer at at www.bikeathens.com
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- BikeAthens appreciates your continued support towards its mission of 
improving transportation options in Athens-Clarke County. Get more info,join, 
renew your membership, or volunteer at at www.bikeathens.com

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