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Read about the trip to retrieve bikes collected in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The story (hyperlink here) was reported by the Cedar Rapids Gazette and includes a short video.

Francis Parker School YouTube Bike Drive video ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF_ply0M9N8

Francis Parker School YouTube Night Soccer video ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBK1f_Obi-o

We were on Chicago Tonight, here is the YouTube URL ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58y0qUM_ p6U

Does everyone knows that cycling lawyer who's been a part of the Critical Mass, West Town and Chicago street racing community?

He's written an article about Working Bikes in his blog ...

http://lawyerjim.blogspot.com/2007/10/working-bikes-invaluable-chicago.html

http://www.kenoshanews.com/article_comments/view_comments.php?articleNum=1572030

Working Bikes up and rolling
8/19/07
Volunteer program repairs bicycles for charitable use
GARY J. KUNICH

Some were rusted shells of their former glory - a bent rim here, chipped paint and flat tire there - and others looked like they came from a different era before Game Boys, when kids put baseball cards in the spokes and sped through town.

Friends,

Check out young William Toepher at the Working Bikes
booth at the Earth Day Celebration in Daley Plaza.

http://video.nbc5.com/player/?id=93236

Of course this is only a small segment of William's
interview with NBC.

There's a short commercial before the segment begins. Look for the spinning globe.

MP3 of Nick's recent interview on NPR's Worldview, running time just under 13 minutes.

WBC's warehouse and storefront general manager was interviewed on Chicago Public Radio's World View program today. Check it out:
http://chicagopublicradio.org/Program_WV_Segment.aspx?segmentID=10194

Check out Dave Macaulay's website for more details ...
http://www.helpholycross.org
WBC contributed to the shipping costs.