Posts from — March 2009

Our final event is booked and here is our official complete tour scheduled for
Books on Wheels Spring Tour 2009!

Sunday April 5th:
Annunciation Mission
The corner of Napoleon and S Claiborne
1-4 pm
Free and Open to the Public!

Books on Prisoners Book Donation
Nowe Miasto
6 pm

Monday, April 6th:
R.U.B.A.R.B. Bicycle Donation
12 pm

Isrealite Baptist Church
2100 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd
3-6 pm
Free and Open to the Public!

Tuesday, April 7th:
Sylvanie Williams Elementary School Book Donation
1 pm

Alvar Library Branch
913 Alvar Street
3 pm
Free and Open to the Public!

Please come join us at Six Burner on Main St. on Thursday for this awesome dinner! Only 35 dollars exlcuding tax and tip and a portion of the sales goes to Books on Wheels! 

steamed mussels, surry sausage, beer cream
ommegang hennepin cooperstown, ny

bacon wrapped trout, creamed yellow corn,
beer battered okra
nectar pale ale, central coast, ca

honey glazed roasted pork shoulder, pickled spicy
cabbage, byrd mill grits
victory storm king stout, downingtown, PA

Ryan has chosen Book on Wheels as his artwork’s charity. Books on Wheels provides free books and bicycle repair to Richmond, VA and beyond. $250 dollars from the sale of this artwork will be donated to the organization.

Please visit www.tinyshowcase.com for more information about purchasing a print. Also, see more of Ryan’s work at
www.ryanmclennan.com

Thanks Ryan!

Thank you so much to Doug McDonald Welding!
http://twokingswelding.com/

Video Fan! Thank you so much for your generous donation!
http://www.myspace.com/videofanrva

403 Strawberry St
Richmond, VA 23220
(804) 353-7891

The bike raffle drawing will be held at New York Deli on
Sunday March 29th but tickets are on sale now at
Chop Suey Tuey for only one dollar.
And, if you don’t win the bike,
you still have the oppurtunity to win other
great prizes donated from local Richmond businesses!

Chop Suey Tuey
2913 W. Cary St.
Richmond, VA 23220

Here are the events as of now. One more to come soon for Sunday afternoon. Yeah!

Sunday, April 5th:
Louisiana Books to Prisoners Book Donation

Monday, April 6th:
R.U.B.A.R.B. Bicycle Donation
Sylvanie Williams Elementary School
Isrealite Baptist Church

Tuesday, April 7th:
Sylvanie Williams Elementary School
Alvar Library Branch

May is National Bike Month. Ride your bike!
May 11-15th is National Bike Week. Ride your bike!
May 15th is National Ride Your Bike to Work Day. Ride your bike!

Kick off to “Kickstand”—Charlottesville’s Newest Bike Zine!
Friday, March 20^th—the Spring Equinox/Virginia Festival of The Book
6-8 p.m. at the Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative

(209 Monticello Road—just across the Belmont Bridge)

Followed by SCAVENGER HUNT by bicycle!  (don’t forget your blinky light)

 Readings, Music by Accordian Death Squad (traditional Ratslyvanian biker band), make your own bike inner tube wallets, raffle, snacks AND…

 **Special guests:  Books On Wheels over from Richmond

And local artist and bicyclist, Purl with a fabulous puppet show!

 Community Bikes, ACCT and friends have created a little, spunky publication packed full of stories, poems, and pics that highlight the fun and amazing possibilities when we travel by bike—all in perfect time to welcome spring and encourage potential bikers everywhere to haul out that two wheeled beauty……

For more information please contact ACCT at #295-6554 or e-mail hopefull1@excite.com

Book & Bike Drive
Drop off books, bikes, and bike parts to donate to the Books on Wheels program. Books on Wheels is a charitable organization based in the Richmond Metro Area which gives away free books, bikes and bike tune-ups. Visit their Mo’Book Mo’Bike Mobile and check out our own Henrico County Public Library Bookmobile too! For more information please call 364-1400 ext. 5.

Twin Hickory Area Library
Saturday, April 11, 10:00 a.m.