Wednesday BTWW event highlights and prize winners
Westbank First Nation treated us this morning with a great Celebration Station on the westside, featuring delicious bannock, yogurt, fruit and juice. Thanks to Starbucks for providing coffee and Waste Conscious Living for the reusable mug station, which allowed participants to enjoy their morning coffee with zero waste! Sovereign Cycle was there doing bike checks, the City of West Kelowna set up their fun biking obstacle course and the BC Transit bus allowed people to try loading and unloading their bikes on the bus bike rack.
The tire toss advanced to 19 feet today, with the furthest successful throw by Adam Zelenka from Interior Health. Adam will be invited to participate in the Kettle River Brewing Tire Toss finals this Friday at Prospera Place.
Prize winners
Bike winner:
Derek Lee from KF Aerospace wins a bike from Outbound Cycle! Congratulations, Derek!
Daily prizes:
Sponsor | Prize | Winning Team | Team Leader | Organization |
3-session starter pack | Signal Cycling | Tim Connor | City of Kelowna – Windsor Rd | |
90-minute float session | Liftees | Brent Carmichael | Doppelmayr | |
$50 GC | The Geek Squad | Neal Swett | The Geek Squad | |
$50 GC | Acro Media | Justin Cornell | Acro Media Inc | |
2-week unlimited pass | YLW Wheelers | Michael Geistlinger | City of Kelowna - Airport |
All daily prizes can be picked up by your Team Leader at Parkinson Rec Centre between May 27 and June 16, 2019.
King and Queen of the Hill
Markus Heinrichs and Catherine Fitzgerald were named this year's King and Queen of the Hill.
Thanks for making the trek over the bridge and up the hill to visit us at WFN!
These lucky winners will each receive a two-week unlimited pass to The Hot Box yoga, an axle locking set from the Lions Cyclery and a bike light from Modo.
What's in store for Thursday
Join us tomorrow at Mission Creek Park near the EECO Centre, where CrAsian food truck will be serving breakfast tacos, Bean Scene will provide coffee and Cyclepath will be doing bike checks.
You can also check out these Satellite Stations:
- ChainLine Cycle, 1139 Ellis St, Kelowna, 7-9 a.m.
- Pounce & Hound Fine Pet Goods, 2720 Richter St, Kelowna, 7-9 a.m. (bike checks by MEC)
- KF Aerospace, 5655 Airport Way, Kelowna, 6:30-9 a.m. (bike checks by Sun Valley Cycle Repair).
It’s your ride…keep it that way! Register with 529 Garage today
Today, May 29 (05-29) is a great day to register your bike with Project 529 Garage. You can also look for representatives from the City’s Police Services Crime Prevention team at the Bike to Work Week events to register your bike on-the-spot.
If your bike ever gets stolen, you can use the app to provide information to the police, insurance and the community to help recover your lost bike. It only takes minutes and is easy to do. Download the 529 Garage smartphone app, or visit 529garage.ca.
Remember to log your trips
Don’t forget to log all your biking trips during the week at gobybikebc.ca. Team leaders, check your team trip log to see if your team members are logging their trips. If they're not, it is your job to log their kilometres for them, or encourage them to do so.
You can log any trips to/from work, to/from BTWW related events (even if it's out of your way) and ANY trips you make during the week that would replace a vehicle trip.
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