JULY 2, 2009 ISSUE
AmeriCorps Bike Drive a Success
Representatives from WYN picked up their Bike Drive Prize last week. Pictured from left to right are Anna Chilton, HCC AmeriCorps Project Conserve, Nicol Hiegl, WYN Project Venture Coordinator, and Anna Baker, WYN AmeriCorps Project Promise.
Organizers are calling the AmeriCorps Project Conserve and AmeriCorps Promise Bike Drive, held from May 11 to 22, a complete success.
The benefactors, Western Youth Network (WYN) and Mountain Alliance, will receive four bikes each thanks to the generous donations of a few members of the Boone community. Last month, statewide, AmeriCorps held a Drive for Service, collecting a range of items to benefit the communities that members are working in.
The other bike drive sites were Asheville and Hendersonville where the bikes will be used to form a bike library through the towns’ boys and girls clubs. Through the program, people of any age can check a bike out for a period of time to enjoy their towns car-free.
AmeriCorps Project Conserve was formed to assist in the preservation and appreciation of the outdoors in Western North Carolina. The bikes will provide the youth of Boone with a way to experience and embrace the unique environment of the High Country. AmeriCorps Promise places their volunteers in organizations where they can arrange community activities on behalf of children and youth.
WYN hopes to have kids clean, tune-up and earn the right to keep the donated cycles. Mountain Alliance will use the donated bikes to help teens get active and enjoy the outdoors.
Anna Chilton from Project Conserve and Anna Baker from Project Promise would like to extend a warm thanks those who donated: Tom Andrews, Meredith Church, Rich Culatta, as well a few other folks whose names were not given.
For more information on Mountain Alliance and WYN click to www.mountainalliance.org and www.westernyouthnetwork.org.
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