[DVBC] ACS Ride Logistics

[Valerie Shinbaum]

Re:  the ACS ride, I recruited Bob and several other DVBC members to join the team I ride with for that ride every year.  It's the Penn Abramson Cancer Center team, and Bob was a patient in the center at least once.  It was such a treat for the team and our captain, Pat Remeis (who works at the Center), to have Bob go from patient to survivor/team rider.  Rather than dilute the effort, how about bringing more DVBC members to that already well-established team, which has several DVBC members already on it?  Pat is a great team captain and she's always up for ways to bring more people to the team.  Since Bob was already a team member, how about contacting her and asking her about establishing some kind of fundraising initiative especially in Bob's name?  
   
  Valerie 
  

Ann Martha <amartha at phila.k12.pa.us> wrote:
  Here's a neat way to organize a bike's club participation in the ACS ride.    

I used to do the ride with the Northeast Roadrunners Chain Gang.   The running club chartered a tour bus and left at 5:30 AM from Northeast Philly.   When the group reorganized and started the ride at 5:30 from Bucks County, I dropped out because Bucks County was too far away for so early in the morning.    

If DVBC plans the event, we could all depart from a common place, such as behind the Staples in Springfield.  We'd meet there at 5 AM and load the bikes into a chartered tour bus.  We then ride the bus to the Ben Franklin Bridge arriving at 6:30 A.M.   The ride starts at 7.   The bus goes to Mays Landing, and picks us up at 3:30 PM for the return ride to Springfield, PA.   The tour bus could hold 30 participants, and the charter would cost each participant approximately $35, given the inflated price of fuel during the summer months.  The club then turns over any cash remaining from the bus charter to the ACS.


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That's a great idea, Len.  I told Dom last night that I think it would be wonderful if we got a bunch of DVBCers to ride the ACS ride next July in Bob's honor.  We could all wear our club jerseys.
Debbie
 

    
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   From: dvbc-list-bounces at list.dvbc.org [ mailto:dvbc-list-bounces at list.dvbc.org] On Behalf Of Len Zanetich
  
   Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 8:53 PM
  
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   Subject: RE: [DVBC] Bob Leon

  
   

   
   There’s not a ride that goes by where he is not in my thoughts. I was so excited riding with him again after his comeback from the first bout with this deadly disease.  He gave a lot to DVBC and the charity rides he participated in. I think we should have a yearly memorial ride on the last week of September and collect donations for the American Cancer Society in honor of him.  He will truly be missed.    Len

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