TheRapidian featured Boston Square Community Bikes and several other bike organizations in a recent article about improving bicycle accessibility for transportation.
http://therapidian.org/placematters-community-organizations-work-bicycle-accessibility
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
Boston 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
Boston Square Community Bikes has graduated 34 students from (L)Earn-a-Bike class. Three attended the Reunion Party yesterday and helped other neighborhood kids work on their bikes.
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.
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!
What a great time at [L]Earn-a-Bike class. It went really well. I hope everyone enjoyed it as much as we did. We look forward to staying connected and to build a stronger community together.
P.S. pictures coming soon..