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Introducing Holly Nielsen - Let's Get Social with SVBE
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- Holly Nielsen
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- 21-May-2024
Holly Nielsen, our new social media specialist In May, the Bicycle Exchange hired Holly Nielsen as our social media specialist. She's thrilled to join us and looks forward to helping to spread the word about our incredible organization even
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Featured Volunteer: Samuel Spal
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- Andrew Y
- Featured Volunteers
- 28-September-2023
Sam Spal, our featured volunteer and chef Our featured volunteer this month is the young chef Sam Spal, who currently is in Germany but spent many hours this year in our shop.
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Featured Volunteer: Helen Hsiu
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- Roger Conley Smith
- Featured Volunteers
- 02-August-2023
Helen Hsiu, our August 2023 featured volunteer Our featured volunteer this month is Helen Hsiu. Helen has been a dedicated Wednesday volunteer all through the pandemic, and has recently taken over as the lead (along with Rose) for our Women's
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Featured Volunteer: Fernando Pacheco Cotos
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- Andrew Y
- Featured Volunteers
- 08-May-2023
Our latest featured volunteer: Fernando Pacheco Cotos It's been too long since we've featured a volunteer, but hopefully, this one is worth the wait. Read about one of our regular high school volunteers, with a unique life story.
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Featured Volunteer: Chris Jasper
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- Andrew Y
- Featured Volunteers
- 09-October-2022
Chris Jasper, BikeX's featured volunteer This month we're pleased to introduce our featured volunteer, Chris Jasper.
Chris is a local boy from the suburbs of San Jose. As a kid, He found love for a bike at a young age, as it provided fun and
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Featured Volunteer: Rob Kleinschmidt
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- Roger Conley Smith
- Featured Volunteers
- 02-June-2022
Rob Kleinschmidt in front of his Ford Transit Connect camper van. The BikeX Volunteer of the Month for June is Rob Kleinschmidt. A native of Buffalo, NY who moved to California 50 years ago, Rob is a retired software engineer, motorcycle enthusiast, and seasoned Bike
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Volunteer of the Month: Coleen DeLizza
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- Roger Conley Smith
- Featured Volunteers
- 06-February-2022
The February Volunteer of the Month is Coleen DeLizza! A California native and long-time Bay Area resident, Colleen made her way to BikeX a decade ago with a friend and has been helping out ever since.
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Featured Volunteer: Leo Minami
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- Roger Conley Smith
- Featured Volunteers
- 28-October-2021
Leo Minami, SVBE Featured Volunteer Originally from Palo Alto, Leo has been a regular volunteer for many years.
Leo first started volunteering at BikeX while he was a road racer in high school. He recently returned to volunteer again after
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Volunteers of the Month: Mark and Sue
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- Roger Conley Smith
- Featured Volunteers
- 05-October-2021
Meet the latest Volunteers of the Month, Mark and Sue. After spending many years working in the finance side of the Semiconductor and Biotech industries, Sue and Mark have been enjoying the
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Featured SVBE Team Member: Gregg Kato
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- Andrew Y
- Featured Volunteers
- 07-August-2021
Gregg Kato bleeds the hydraulic brakes on a Knolly Endorphin full suspension mountain bike. This month’s spotlight shines brightly on our Shop Manager Gregg Kato, who has been invaluable in helping with retail, donor and volunteer activities in the shop for the last year.
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Featured SVBE Volunteer: David Kamp
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- Andrew Y
- Featured Volunteers
- 02-May-2021
David Kamp turns barely-working bikes into brevet-ready machines. Regular readers of the BikeX newsletter may recall the beautiful restoration of a 1930s Rudge-Whitworth. This stunning relic of bicycle history was revitalized thanks to this month’s Volunteer of
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Featured SVBE Volunteer: John Garrish
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- Andrew Y
- Featured Volunteers
- 08-April-2021
John Garrish, our featured volunteer for April, 2021. This month's featured Volunteer is John Garrish, who has been a regular visitor during the pandemic to pick up homework bikes, help with QA and lend his cargo bike expertise. John has a long,
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Featured SVBE Volunteer: Paul Southworth
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- Andrew Y
- Featured Volunteers
- 05-March-2021
Paul Southworth, SVBE Featured Volunteer, March 2021 One of the silver linings of the pandemic is the arrival of some new faces to the Bicycle Exchange. Paul Southworth is one such example, having refurbished more than a dozen bikes from home, and
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Featured SVBE Volunteer: Michael Khaw
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- Andrew Y
- Featured Volunteers
- 02-February-2021
Michael Khaw, SVBE Featured Volunteer, February 2021 During the pandemic, SVBE has been largely dependent on tireless "homework bike" volunteers to keep our bike donations going.
One of the most dedicated homework bike volunteers has been Michael
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Featured SVBE Volunteer: Shree Sandilya
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- Roger Conley Smith
- Featured Volunteers
- 15-January-2021
Shree Sandilya sorts donated bike parts at the Silicon Valley Bicycle Exchange. In the last couple of years, SVBE has expanded its social media presence to include Instagram. The regular activity on our IG page has been a great way to get the word out about some of our
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Featured SVBE Volunteer: Lucy Hsu
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- Roger Conley Smith
- Featured Volunteers
- 03-December-2020
Lucy Hsu, long-time volunteer, donation receiver and coordinator with partner charities. One of the constants at the Silicon Valley Bicycle Exchange is that there are always more bikes to repair. Our talented volunteers are always repairing bikes at a good clip, but only by moving the
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Featured SVBE Volunteer: Dave Fork
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- Featured Volunteers
- 03-November-2020
Dave Fork (left), SVBE Co-founder Most people who have been to BikeX have seen Dave Fork, in his characteristic neon-yellow vest affixing green tags with a smile on bikes that have passed the first round of our rigorous quality
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Featured SVBE Volunteer: Patrick Twohy
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- Andrew Y
- Featured Volunteers
- 02-October-2020
Patrick Twohy, Featured Volunteer A global pandemic presents interesting challenges for everyone and everything, and nonprofits are no exception. While the Silicon Valley Bicycle Exchange unfortunately can't safely hold our large
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Volunteers of the Month: Paul & Brian
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- Johny
- Featured Volunteers
- 02-March-2020
The Bike Exchange is increasingly attracting families to our program. Oftentimes, there are mothers and fathers bringing their children in to learn about bikes and how to fix them. Some of these
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Person of the Month: Katie L.
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- Jonny
- Featured Volunteers
- 06-February-2020
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Volunteer of the Month: Carolina L
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- Jonny
- Featured Volunteers
- 02-December-2019
I love my job, especially when I get to interview someone as engaging as Carolina L. She is the latest addition to our Wednesday crew.
Carolina has done some traveling. Her father is an engineer and has moved
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Person of the Month: Andrew Yee
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- Jonny
- Featured Volunteers
- 01-November-2019
SVBE welcomes its General Manager, Andrew Yee
Father, husband, engineer, businessman, certified bike nut?
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Take your pick, he is all of the above and as of now, he is the new General Manager for the -
Persons of the Month: Nikolay and Kostya
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- Jonny
- Featured Volunteers
- 30-September-2019
On September 7th the Bike Exchange had its semi Annual Bike sale. I have never seen so many people intent on buying a bike from us. We had a line 6-8 deep waiting to hand us money practically from the
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Volunteer of the Month: Nilay
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- Jonny
- Featured Volunteers
- 01-September-2019
The bike Exchange is getting to be a world-class organization, attracting folks from far and wide. In far-off India in the city of Kolkata, Nilay M was born. Little did he know at the time that his
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Volunteer of the Month: Lauren Z
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- Jonny
- Featured Volunteers
- 04-August-2019
Wednesday is becoming the new Saturday at the Bike Exchange.
Last week I arrived at 11 am and almost every station was occupied. Old friends and new faces and everybody swaying to jazz on the sound
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Volunteer of the Month: Harry C
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- Jonny
- Featured Volunteers
- 27-June-2019
Back in Blighty his father always biked to work as did so many of his generation. For... -
Volunteer of the Month: Jack G
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- Jonny
- Featured Volunteers
- 14-April-2019
The Bike Exchange has expanded a lot recently. Today I am talking to one of the folks who work here during our new Wednesday hours.
Jack is one of that rarest of breeds, a native San Fransiscan. Jack
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Volunteer of the Month: Ahmed
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 11-April-2019
Ahmed has been volunteering at the Bicycle Exchange for about three months. He likes to fix road bikes (like what he rides) and kids bikes. His goal is to become proficient in fixing his kids'
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Volunteer of the Month: Kevin
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- Jonny
- Featured Volunteers
- 01-March-2019
Lately I have had a number of conversations with our volunteers from the Veteran’s Administration. They are all great folks and worth getting to know. Today I sat down with Kevin.
He grew up in San
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Volunteer of the Month: Dennis
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 17-February-2019
Dennis commuted by bike for decades here in Silicon Valley and maintained his classic road bike. Now that he is retired, he puts his bike-fixing skills to work at the Bicycle Exchange. He is part of
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Volunteer of the Month: Jeff A
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 01-February-2019
Jeff has volunteered with the Bicycle Exchange for about four years after finding us via our website. He is our newsletter editor and used to work on bikes when he lived closer. Now he lives near Mt
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Volunteers of the Month: The Move Crew
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- Jonny
- Featured Volunteers
- 03-January-2019
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Volunteer of the Month: Kim Y
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- Johnny
- Featured Volunteers
- 03-December-2018
One of the ongoing partnerships we have at the Bike Exchange is with the Veterans Administration Hospital in Palo Alto. We regularly donate bikes to the vets and often have some of them visit us on
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Volunteer of the Month: Jerry
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- Johnny
- Featured Volunteers
- 30-September-2018
Jerry, 29, hails from St. Louis originally and like so manyof this country’s best and brightest, he found his waya year ago to our beautiful state, and more specifically, here in Silicon Valley.
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Volunteer of the Month: Eduardo
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- Johnny
- Featured Volunteers
- 31-July-2018
Today I want you to meet Eduardo. He is one of the veterans we serve who heard of the good work we do from Rebecca, the Veterans Administration Coordinator, and decided to come out and volunteer.
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Volunteer of the Month: Maggie
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- Johnny
- Featured Volunteers
- 31-May-2018
May 5th was our semiannual bike sale and it was a smashing success. People lined up at the gate when we opened and a steady stream of buyers scored fantastic deals. One of them, Maggie M, was a
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Volunteer of the Month: Tobi
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 05-May-2018
Tobi has been volunteering at the Bicycle Exchange for about a year. He found out about the organization through the Google website, as an employee. When he chooses a bike to repair, he often picks one
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Volunteer of the Month: Chris
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 05-May-2018
Chris is originally from Wales but moved to the US, first Colorado then California, 14 years ago. He commutes daily to work via bicycle, taking the direct route to work, then the nice Bay Trail and
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Volunteer of the Month: Rebecca
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 04-May-2018
Rebecca has been volunteering at the bicycle exchange for about 3 years - you will usually see her at the registration table helping volunteers, donors, and people who want to purchase bikes.
She
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Volunteer of the Month: Adam
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 04-May-2018
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Volunteer of the Month: Gordon
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 02-February-2018
Gordon and I have known each other since I first started volunteering at the Bike Exchange about 5 years ago. I have known him as a quiet, somewhat reserved individual who is always there when
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Volunteer of the Month: Lucy
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 29-January-2018
Lucy has been volunteering with the Bike Exchange for 3-4 years and is the person to go to if you need help with adjusting brakes or truing wheels. Her favorite ride is a Trek road bike which she
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Volunteer of the Month: Greg
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 29-January-2018
Greg has been volunteering with the Bicycle Exchange for about a year and provides a lot of guidance to new volunteers (especially since recovering from an ice hockey injury). He loves to work on
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Volunteers of the Month - Taiwanese American Professionals
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 29-November-2017
What a great bunch of volunteers! Jessica Ken and her horde of 20 volunteers from the Taiwanese American Professionals group descended on our humble facility once again to help us fix bikes. They
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Volunteer of the Month: Doug
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 29-November-2017
Doug has been volunteering for the Bicycle Exchange for over 15 years. He often works behind the scenes checking our inventory of bike parts and purchasing parts from different suppliers to keep
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Volunteer of the Month: Rao
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 05-November-2017
Looking around for my next person to interview I couldn’t help noticing Rao hard at work on a bike. He has been volunteering since April this year at the Bike Exchange.
A resident of Palo Alto, he
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Volunteer of the Month: Cap'n Jonny
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- Cap'n Jonny
- Featured Volunteers
- 31-August-2017
Your ace reporter fell off his bike (in front of his house standing still) and broke his hip earlier this August and has been mostly house bound so has not been able to interview anyone for
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Volunteer of the month: Rachel
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 14-August-2017
Rachel started volunteering at the Bicycle Exchange in May and is excited to earn her work apron on her fifth volunteer day soon. She enjoys working on the adult bikes because she learns repair
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Volunteer of the month: Calvin
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 01-August-2017
Calvin started working at the bicycle exchange in 2014 and was promoted to QA about 6 months ago, so you'll see him wearing the yellow/green vest making sure that bikes are fixed to the
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Volunteers of the Month: Kim & Jeff
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 01-July-2017
Today we meet up with Kim and his son Jeff. Kim introduced his other son Alex to the Bike Exchange some time ago and figured that his son Jeff could also benefit from the experience, so today they are
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Volunteer of the Month: Patrick S
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 03-May-2017
Patrick is a true coastie, born in beautiful San Luis Obispo, California. His family moved to Livermore in 1953, where he grew up in what then was a beautiful rural part of California with miles of
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Volunteer of the Month: Mark A
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 28-March-2017
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Volunteer of the Month: Dave Z
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 28-March-2017
Dave Z has been working at the Bicycle Exchange for 2 years fixing bikes. You may see him riding around on his Rivendell road bike - he's logged 100,000 miles on it. He used to go on bike tours
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Volunteer of the Month: Jonny T
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 02-March-2017
Jonny grew up in the North beach neighborhood in San Francisco, and remembers the "Summer of Love" and his Black Panther neighbors among many "only in San Francisco" people and places in the City by the
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Volunteer of the Month: Judy
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 23-February-2017
Judy has been fixing bikes at the Bicycle Exchange for 3 years, has more recently joined the Steering Committee, and writes all of our thank you letters to donors. She enjoys fixing the adult bikes
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Volunteer of the Month: Falguni
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 04-December-2016
Falguni is one of the people behind the scenes at the Bicycle Exchange that helps keep things running smoothly. She volunteered at a workday after her colleague, Doreen, told her about it. She moved
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Volunteer of the Month: Alison
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 30-October-2016
Thursday, Oct. 6 was a special work day where we hosted a group from Adobe Systems at the bike Exchange.
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Alison organized the event from the Adobe side (Jack Miller, as always, set things up on our -
Volunteer of the Month: Grant
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 30-October-2016
A native to the bay area, Grant has been volunteering at the Bicycle Exchange for seven years. Many new folks get their orientation from him. He likes to make the orientation engaging and informal -
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Volunteers of the Month: Bahar & Romtin
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 02-October-2016
This month we visit with Bahar R and her son Romtin. They live in Los Altos and their whole family loves riding.
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They belong to the Young Men's Service League, Rancho chapter - Mountain view / Los -
Volunteer of the Month: Bob M
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 30-July-2016
Bob M grew up in Tonawanda, a suburb of Buffalo, New York. He started riding bikes as a child and his first two wheeler was a Huffy; complete with a spring shock absorber, light and a horn in the
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Volunteer of the Month: Colleen
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 03-July-2016
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Colleen joined the bicycle exchange to learn how to fix bikes and has been volunteering for 2 1/2 years. You'll often see her managing the front table, receiving donations and greeting volunteers. She -
Volunteer of the Month: Doreen
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 06-June-2016
Doreen Y. grew up in Berkeley in the 60's. Her parents didn't own a car so she biked everywhere from the age of six. She didn't buy her first car until she was a college senior. While attending El
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Volunteer of the Month: Mary
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 04-May-2016
If you've enjoyed some fresh-brewed coffee at the Bike Exchange, most likely Mary brought it. She's been volunteering for about 1 1/2 years and has regularly been bringing coffee to wake up the
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Volunteer of the Month: Carol M.
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 24-April-2016
There are some really amazing people who volunteer at the Silicon Valley Bicycle Exchange. This month, meet Carol M. Carol has been volunteering at the exchange for 9 years, and was originally
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Volunteer of the Month: Leo M.
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- Lauren Z.
- Featured Volunteers
- 02-March-2016
A student at Palo Alto High School, Leo M has been volunteering at the Bike Exchange for two years since a friend recommended he try it. When he looks at the pile of bikes needing repairs, he
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