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The Bike Again! Community Initiative has had a successful first year. Over 150 bicycles have been repaired and distributed to people who did not have access to their own bike. The project started at the Brunswick Street United Church as the Yellow Bike Program and last year TIC (the Transportation Issues Committee), an EAC sub-committee, took hold of the reigns and the Bike Again! Community Initiative was born. A group of Bike Again! volunteers set up a workshop space in the Bloomfield Community Centre and began organizing the donated bicycle parts. Since then we have managed to fix 150 old bikes and have gotten more people pedalling on the road. Approximately sixty percent of the recycled bikes have been given to new Canadians through MISA, twenty-five percent to students, ten percent to the general public and five percent to organizations. The bike recipients have been asked to sign a waiver form and use the bicycle as long as they need it. "I haven't used a bicycle since I was about fourteen living with my family in Afghanistan. Now I ride my bike everywhere. It is good to get me to English school and to get food at the store. Thank you for the bike and the new freedom." (Abdul Hadi) All of this good work has been done by the efforts of a handful of dedicated volunteers and a few small donations. The Bike Again! volunteers are motivated to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote bicycling. If you wish to get involved in the Bike Again! Community Initiative, contact Susanna Drake Fuller at 453-9228 sdfuller@is2.dal.ca or Melissa Taylor at melissa@misa.ns.ca. We are looking for a few things to help us to continure this amazing project. Some items on our wish list include: salvagable bicycles, financial donations, bicycle mechanics, and a new workshop space. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- END OF MESSAGE -- CBC ENVIRO NEWS BRIEF FOLLOWS: -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- CHILDREN STAY HOME AFTER E.COLI IN SAINT JOHN DAY CARE Some parents in Saint John, New Brunswick, are keeping their children at home after an E.coli scare at a day-care centre in the city. FULL STORY: http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/12/11/ecoli_nb011211 ____________________________________________________________ Copyright© Canadian Broadcasting Corporation -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- The preceding message was posted on Sustainable Maritimes (sust-mar) -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- TELL A FRIEND! The more people who join sust-mar, the more interesting and diverse views we'll see ... and more people to read *your* messages. So ... pssssst! Pass it on ... To join sust-mar just send email to <majordomo@chebucto.ns.ca> As the text of your message type "subscribe sust-mar" (without the quotes)
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