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This month marks the start of a crucial year for the Yellow Bike Project. We have learned we have only 1 year remaining in our current space and the city will not be able to relocate us. To ensure we have a space that fits our needs a year from now, we have begun a CAPITOL CAMPAIGN. This is a one-time push to raise funds for the purchase of a workshop space and not the start of an annual donation drive. Our goal is to obtain a permanent home, one that can serve our organization and the community for years to come.

Over the next year we will continue to utilize our city-donated space to its fullest potential. We are constantly expanding our volunteer base, resulting in more shop hours, projects, and members of the community served. If you love what we do and are interested in giving back, now is the time to get involved. Over the next year we look forward to making the Yellow Bike Community as strong as possible to deal with the challenges ahead.

So, once again, enjoy reading our monthly newsletter and staying up to date with the latest news from the project. Thanks for the continued support.

-The Yellow Bike Project

CAPITOL CAMPAIGN FOR NEW SPACE - The Yellow Bike Project is looking for a secure, permanent, warehouse space so that we can continue the great work that we've been doing for nearly 10 years. For over 8 years, our space has been generously donated by the City of Austin; however, it is in an old airport building that is destined for demolition in the ongoing Mueller Airport Redevelopment.

Over the last few months we have been in active discussion with the City about the fate of our main shop on 51st street.   We were hoping that the city might be able to relocate us but have recently discovered there is no city space currently available. While we remain open to working with the city, we have decided to start raising funds to purchase a space of our own.

Our Main Shop is the heart of our organization and makes possible many of the things we do. We have until late 2007 to find a new home for Yellow Bike. Our ALL-VOLUNTEER organization is composed of people that are committed to a vision of a bike friendlier Austin and a better world because of it. Other than the workshop facility, we have few financial needs to carry on our work.

We are announcing a Capitol Campaign in which we hope to raise $300,000 to facilitate the purchase of a new space. While this sum might not be able to replace our current facility in size, we feel that it would secure for us a home that allows us to continue our current operations with room to grow.

Yellow Bike volunteers give a good deal of personal time to provide a service that we feel greatly benefits Austin as a whole and gives many people the resources they need to depend on their bicycles for transportation. We are committed to providing this service and hope that the Yellow Bike community can come together to help secure a home for the organization for years to come.

We feel lucky to have a year to make this goal a reality. We encourage anyone who is interested in helping to get involved.   It is the strength of our volunteer base that will allow us to continue offering our shop services, volunteer opportunities and raise the required funds to meet our goal.

Donations can be made in person during any of our shop hours, by mail, or through our website. More information can be found on our web site's donate page . Several alternate ways donate to Yellow Bike are detailed in sections below and more will be available over the next year.

GIVE THE HOLIDAY GIFT OF A DONATION TO YELLOW BIKE - Through our shop and several other stores and bike shops around Austin we will have available donation "gift certificates" for the Holidays. This is for someone you know who would love to benefit a local cause rather than receive a gift for themselves. A listing of shops offering these gift donations will be available on our website.

IGIVE ONLINE HOLIDAY SHOPPING TO BENEFIT YELLOW BIKE -   As a project, we heavily emphasize the re-use and recycling of resources. However, as individuals, we're all likely to do some holiday shopping in the near future. Why not send a percentage of your purchases back to organizations like Yellow Bike? iGive.com arranges deals with many large online merchants (dell, apple, expedia, target, home depot... click to view list) to give somewhere between 1% and 4%. So if you find your self doing online shopping over the next month and beyond, check to see if the merchant has an arrangement at iGive.

PEACOCK LOUNGE TO DONATE 10% SATURDAYS - Every Saturday night the Peacock Lounge will be donating 10% of its bar sales to Yellow Bike while DJ John King spins the dance tunes. We kicked off the first of the Saturdays, October 28th with a successful Yellow Bike release at the Peacock. Thanks to the Peacock and DJ John King for the continued support!

NEW HOURS: OUR FIRST EVER SATURDAY MORNING SHOP - We have an exciting addition to our weekly 51st street shop schedule.   There will be a Saturday morning shop from 10am - 2pm. We realize 6 - 10pm at night is not very kid or long day of work friendly so we are excited about offering this weekend daytime shop. This month we will have 5 Open Shops and 1 Volunteer Shop.   So if your personal bike is in need of repair this is your month. Please check the website for holiday closures.

Shop	Phone	Mon	Tues**	Weds	Thurs	Fri	Sat	Sun
Main Shop: 2013 E. 51st Street	(512) 457-9880	6-10 pm	6-10 pm*	6-10 pm	6-10 pm	6-10 pm	10am-2pm
Wheatsville Shop: 3101 Guadalupe	Call Main Shop		5-8 pm	5-8 pm				5-8 pm

* Red Hours indicate Volunteer Only Shop:

Learn to fix bikes while giving back to YBP, earn a bike of your very own, or just help out. Personal projects during Open Shops shown in black on the schedule.

CONCLUSION OF THE BEDICHECK SCHOOL PROGRAM - The Citizen Schools program is going great and both the 6th and 7th grade students and YBP volunteers are loving the class. On Saturday December the 9th the class will conclude with a Bike Rodeo at Bedichek Elementary. All children in the school have been invited to come to the event and bring their bikes. The students who participated in the after-school program will get to show off their new found skills and fix up the bike of their class mates. There will be a bike safety demonstration by the Austin Cycling Association to teach the kids the Do(s) and Don't(s) of safe bike riding.

BIKES TO SCHOOLS DONATION - This school year's first Bikes to Schools donation is at Austin Discovery School on Manor Rd. December 15th. Thirty students will receive bikes along with helmets, locks and light sets, thanks, in part, to a generous grant from REI. The students will also enjoy a bicycle safety rodeo, thanks to ACA. If you're interested in working on bikes for the donation, show up to any volunteer or open shop night shop at 51st St. We recommend volunteer nights because the shop will be less crowded. If you'd like to donate a used bike (we need all sizes), we take donations at both locations, during open hours.

DECEMBER FAMILY OPEN HOUSE AND BIKE DRIVE - On Saturday, December 16th from 1-5 pm we will host a family open house and bike drive at our 51st street shop. We will be offering shop tours and spotlighting the youth oriented programs Yellow Bike helps to facilitate. Yellow Bike is involved in several endeavors to promote cycling among youth in a holistic way which emphasizes safety awareness, mechanics skills and cycling as transportation. Representatives from the Tools for Life, Citizen Schools and Bikes to Schools programs will be on hand to discuss their recent accomplishments and their exciting plans for the coming year. The event will also serve as a bike drive. We need used bikes of all sizes to serve as the raw material for our upcoming kids programs.

NEW SATELLITE SHOP LOCATION - Due to renovation, our satellite shop will soon be moving from the Wheatsville Co-op on Guadalupe St. to Treasure City Thrift located near 12th and Chicon ( map). We'd like to thank Wheatsville for their many years of support and congratulate them on their store expansion. We'd also like to thank Treasure City for stepping in and giving our shop a new home next to their new thrift store. We're still running shops behind Wheatsville and the Treasure city space is still in the planning and construction stages, so stay tuned for more information about the upcoming shop transition.

YBP VOLUNTEER TO SIT ON THE CITY'S BIKE SAFETY COUNCIL - The city is assembling a bike safety council to advise the city council on bike safety in Austin. They have asked a Yellow Bike representative to sit on the council. Tom Pekowski has agreed to be our voice on the council. We applaud the establishment of the City's Bike Safety Council as a positive step forward in involving the cycling community in bike safety discussions and ultimately improving bike safety conditions here in Austin.

WORK PARTIES FOR NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER - November's work party was last Saturday, the 18th. We organized the bike yard and started work on the Treasure City satellite shop. The date for the December work party is Sunday the 10th. For December's work party, we will tidy the shop for the Family Open House and Bike Drive happening the following weekend. Work parties are great because you get to make Yellow Bike a little better while hanging out with some friendly folks. We'd love to see you out there!

FrankenBike organizers will produce and sell $10 FrankenBike T-shirts and donate $1 to either Austin Yellow Bike Project or Bikes Across Borders for each FrankenBike T-shirt sold during FrankenBike Swap Meets. All funds raised will be donated directly at the end of each FrankenBike Swap Meet if either group will step up and ask for it if they want it.

Both Austin Yellow Bike Project and Bikes Across Borders are encouraged to attend FrankenBike Swap Meets or provide literature for event goers in an effort to promote their unique contributions to the bicycle community.