Welcome to the monthly feature in which we round up all our events, earned media, program delivery, meetings and speaking engagements for the month. Behold, April:
Apr 1 = Open Houses for Connect Columbus
Apr 2 = Open House for Connect Columbus
Apr 2 =Infrastructure review ride of Long & Spring with 4 Yay Bikes! members
Apr 5 = Infrastructure review rideof Long & Spring with 15 Yay Bikes! members
Apr 8 = Annual Bike Expo @ Battelle
Apr 8 = Sharing "How We Roll" @ Pelotonia's Captains' night
Apr 9 = "Put a Lid on It" program training practitioners statewide about youth bike safety with the Ohio Department of Transportation and the American Academy of Pediatricians, Ohio Chapter
Apr 9 = ODOT News Release: "Ohio children to receive more than 9,000 helmets"
Apr 9 = ODOT video: "Put a Lid on It"
Apr 9 = Planning meeting for Central Ohio's 2015 Ride of Silence
Apr 10 = How We Roll ride for OSU students, faculty & staff
Apr 10 = Infrastructure review rideof Long & Spring with City of Columbus engineers
Apr 11 = Year of Yay! ride with 80 people
Apr 12 = How We Roll ride for OSU students, faculty & staff
Apr 13 = Meeting with Alex Smith of Columbus Public Health
Apr 13 = Big Give announcement
Apr 13–24 = Earn a Bike program delivery @ Great Western Academy
Apr 14 = Tabling at Cardinal Health's Pelotonia kick-off
Apr 14 = Regular meeting of United Way of Central Ohio's Home Impact Council, on which Catherine serves
Apr 15 = Inaugural meeting about curbing bike theft with Bike Snoop
Apr 15 = Board meeting of the Downtown Residents Association of Columbus, on which Catherine serves
Apr 16 = Meeting with Grange Insurance about promoting safe cycling
Apr 16 = Planning meeting for Central Ohio's 2015 Ride of Silence
Apr 16 = Speaking to Prof. Gulsah Akar’s OSU City & Regional Planning class on Nonmotorized Transportation
Apr 17–19 = GiveBackHack
Apr 18 = Pedal Instead @ OSU Spring Game
Apr 20 = Monthly Yay Bikes! board meeting
Apr 21 = Information sessions @ State Auto and Huntington National Bank about bike commuting
Apr 22 = Meeting with Liz Brown, Downtown Development Manager, City of Columbus Economic Development Division
Apr 23 = Meeting with Devin Carothers and Justine Boggs of Team Buckeye
Apr 23 = Public meeting for the COTA NexGen project
Apr 23 = Meeting with Whole Foods regarding Year of Yay! partnership
Apr 23 = Planning meeting for Central Ohio's 2015 Ride of Silence
Apr 25–26 = Training of 4 new How We Roll ride leaders
Apr 25 = Pedal Instead @ Columbus’s Earth Day celebration
Apr 25 = Keynote speech at Roots Camp Ohio on the topic of moving an advocacy agenda forward
Apr 27 = Information sessions @ Bricker & Eckler and Porter Wright about bike commuting
Apr 27 = Charrette for Connect Columbus
Apr 28 = Information sessions @ Huntington National Bank, State Auto and Bricker & Eckler about bike commuting
Apr 28 = Inaugural How We Roll Pelotonia RSI ride
Apr 28 =Yay Bikes! Member Champions night
Apr 29 = Planning meeting for Bike the Cbus
Apr 29 = Charrette for Connect Columbus
Apr 29 = Meeting with Larry Lewellen regarding How We Roll @ OSU
Apr 29 = Regular meeting of Columbus’s Bicycle Working Group, on which Catherine serves
Apr 30 = Planning meeting for Central Ohio's 2015 Ride of Silence
Apr 30 = Charrette for Connect Columbus