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Donate your “retired” bicycle

Time for Spring Cleaning!

Donate your old bicycle to Boston Square Community Bikes.

Saturday, April 18, 2015

Two Locations:
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Grand Rapids Christian Middle School
1650 Griggs SE, 49506

1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Oakdale Neighbors
1260 Kalamazoo SE, 49507

–Mobile bike shop with free tune-ups
–Snacks and give-aways
–Clean out your garage
–Donate your bike to support our work:
•    DIY community bike workspace
•    [L]Earn-a-Bike classes
•    Work-Trade for low income individuals
•    Community bicycle events

wpid-cam00335.jpgBoston Square Community Bikes is a program of Oakdale Neighbors that is promoting sustainable transportation by helping you learn about bicycles and bike repair, providing space and tools for you to work on your bike, and refurbishing donated bicycles for sale.

More Information
Call:    Tom Bulten at Oakdale Neighbors: 616.248.2848
Email:    info@oakdaleneighbors.org
Web:    www.bostonsquare.org
Facebook:    www.facebook.com/BostonSquareCommunityBikes

Tom Bulten – Activist of the Year

Drum roll please./……//./././. I am pleased to announce this year’s Award for Activist of the Year from the Greater Grand Rapids Bicycle Coalition is none other then our very own TOM BULTEN!!!!!!

We are SO proud of all the hard work, the hours he has put in with nothing asked in return. He is an amazing person and I am so proud to be working side by side with him.

Tom you absolutely deserved it. Congratulations from everyone at Boston Square.

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Take Back The Bike… Past Tense

To men, the bicycle in the beginning was merely a new toy, another machine added to the long list of devices they knew in their work and play. To women, it was a steed upon which they rode into a new world.” ~ Munsey’s Magazine, 1896

Thought I’d share how IMPORTANT i/WE feel ” women / trans / bikes ” is for us at Boston Square. Come out. Join. It’s important. YOU MATTER!

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