[Nfb-idaho] bike ride

[Ramona Walhof]

Hi, Bill.  I thought of you, too.  I knew if you could, you would ride.

I can't tell you much more than you already know.  Lunch was the same, 
hamburgers and hot dogs.  Ham radio operators and blind people worked the 
water stops together.  The socks are many colors, and I think there are 
still some left for five dollars each.  I expect to see Mary tomorrow or 
Thursday to find out for sure.  We still have a few goody bags.  We had many 
of the same sponsors and one new one, Jiffy Loob. Sponsors from last year 
should still be listed on our Web Site tvcblindidaho.org, and we should soon 
have the list updated.   And we had discounts on Jiffy Loob certain 
locations in our goody bags.

Lisa coordinated tandems again this year and does a terific job.  Mary 
Symms-Pollot was the event Director.  Earl Hoover is learning a lot and will 
take more responsibility next year.  Brenda did her usual excellent job with 
registration.  Pre-registration was through Active.com.  Dave Hirai, a Lion 
coordinated check-in after the ride.  The Boise Capital Lions, my club, 
prepared the lunch. Laine Amoureux created a Facebook page and put 
information up on a lot of Web Sites.   Mary recruited some of her friends 
as volunteers.  We never have too many.

Riverglen had another event going simultaneously with our bike ride, so the 
parking lot was very crowded, and we could have used more volunteers to 
direct traffic.  Andrew Koba played and sang, and James Brown was the D. J. 
and played recorded music.  Ken Bass started the riders on all three rides. 
You don't want me to go on all day, but there is some of it.  We had a total 
of about sixty volunteers besides the riders.  It is just the nicest crowd I 
have ever worked with.

We missed you.
 Ramona
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Morgan" <billmorgan124 at cableone.net>
To: "NFB of Idaho Discussion List" <nfb-idaho at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-idaho] bike ride


> Hi .
> Bill Morgan here.
> I wish I could have ridden, but have been very ill until just the last 
> little while.
> I would be very interested in knowing more about the bike ride.
> I know I didn't ride, but I did in my dreams.
> BillRamona
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ramona Walhof" <ramona.walhof at gmail.com>
> To: "NFB of Idaho Discussion List" <nfb-idaho at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 8:13 AM
> Subject: [Nfb-idaho] bike ride
>
>
>>I just thought those of you who were not there might like to know that we 
>>had another great Cycle for Independence again this year.  Just about the 
>>same number of riders.  We are waiting for the last check from Active.com, 
>>the company that does our electronic pre-registration, so we don't know 
>>exactly what we made, but it should be in the ball park of last year. 
>>Expenses a little higher, I think. Russel Smith probably came from the 
>>farthest, and he brought his son and stepson with him.  We had at least 
>>ten tandems with blind people on the back and several others.  Mary 
>>Symms-Pollot did a great job of managing and recruiting some new workers. 
>>But you probably don't want ALL the details.
>>
>> Ramona
>>
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