Yay Bikes!

View Original

September 2015 activity report

Welcome to the monthly feature in which we round up all our events, earned media, program delivery, meetings and speaking engagements for the month. Representation and outreach like this is what you fund with your membership dollars and major gifts, folks! Behold, September:

September 2

Bread Breaking grand opening event at Whole Foods Easton, at which we were announced as the Q4 wooden nickel donation recipients

Launch event for OSU's Bike Share program

September 4

Registration and packet pick-up Bike the Cbus and Bike the Cbus+

Columbus Dispatch: "Columbus hopeful for state funds to rebuild 3rd Avenue railroad bridge" 

September 5

WBNS 10-TV: "Best Bets: Things To Do Around Central Ohio This Weekend"

Bike the Cbus and Bike the Cbus+

Pedal Instead @ Bike the Cbus and Bike the Cbus+

September 7

Pedal Instead @ Upper Arlington Labor Day Arts Festival

September 9

Bikeway Design Planning: State of the Practice, sponsored by ODOT

Board meeting of the Downtown Residents Association of Columbus, on which Catherine serves

Route vetting ride for September Year of Yay!

September 12

Year of Yay!with "Architectouring" theme featuring stops at Columbus Architectural Salvage,MAPFREStadium and Ohio Firefighters Union Hall

Pedal Instead @ OSU v Hawaii

September 15

Introductory meeting with local leadership of Black Girls Do Bike

Ride Buddy ride with Owens & Minor employee

September 16

General (public) meeting of the Downtown Residents Association of Columbus, on which Catherine serves

September 17

Regular meeting of the COTANextGen Project Advisory Group, on which Catherine serves

September 18

Regular meeting of the CoGo Planning Team

Business First: "People to Know: Catherine Girves"

September 19

Pedal Instead @ OSU v Northern Illinois

September 21

Ride Buddy with Ohio Attorney General Office employee

Regular monthly Board Meeting of Yay Bikes!

September 26

Pedal Instead @ OSU v Western Michigan

September 28

Introductory meeting with the State of New Jersey DOT's Bike–Ped Coordinator

Regular meeting of MORPC’s Community Advisory Council, on which Catherine serves

September 29

Safe Routes to School Ohio Network: "Workplace Commute" webinar

September 30

Regular meeting of Columbus’s Bicycle Working Group, on which Catherine serves