Roanoke Times front page story on Chris Howell and her car less life
by writer Beth Macy.
‘excellent, excellent story!
Car Less Brit gets exclusive interview with Governor Kaine
with a FlipCamera in one hand and a handle-bar grip in the other, Car Less Brit talks with the Governor about the Governor’s favorite Virginia bike trails, stimulus money for alternative transportation, and … spandex.
Gov. Kaine riding the Roanoke Greenways Thurs. morning
thanks
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Car Less Brit Museum; Request List:
‘as we’re getting close to the Wonder-Filled Grand Opening of this new museum on wednesday july 1, there’s a few items we are in urgent need of, listed below:
Please contact me asap if you can provide any of the items, whether just for the opening event or for the 6 months duration of the museum (well 5 months now!)
—2 tvs/monitors
—1 set of portable speakers (to connect to tvs/monitors)
—3 kids bikes (suitable for ages 2-5)
—multiple bike puncture repair kits —old school style: patch and glue method
thanks,
river
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Car Less Brit Museum Opening Hours; Volunteers Needed!
We’re hoping the Car Less Brit Museum can be open to the public immediately following the Wonder-Filled Grand Opening of Wed July 1.
Tentative opening hours:
11:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Mon thru Saturday
(with additional opening hours at non regular times for evening events, etc.)
I have a full time day job so Saturdays are the only day I can be there to meet and greet the hoards that will be stampeding the doors down!
Volunteers are needed!
A lot of them!
And folks who can do regular museum hosting hours will be ideal.
For example, one volunteer may host from 11:30 - 2 every (or most!) Tuesdays, another may do a whole days shift each Friday, another may do 4:30 - 5:30 Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Please, please see if you can help out as a volunteer hosting the museum, even if it’s no more than one hour a week.
It would be horrible to have such a nice addition to Roanoke bike culture and to the tourism opportunities in Roanoke, and to every aspect of downtown living really (!) and then have it shut up most of the time.
Email me at carlessbrit@gmail.com, or phone 540-314-6731, with what you can do to help.
It’s a nice volunteer position and you can have fun and try such and such to engage patrons and aide them leaving the museum with their head in the clouds!
thanks for considering this opportunity to assist,
river
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“This is my journey, but it is not just mine, but yours too. In January 2009, after yet another family member was diagnosed with cancer, I decided it is time to make a positive out of a negative. So I decided to raise money and fight back against cancer and to do a 45 mile Livestrong Challenge Ride. This is our journey…”
— Rhonda Chattin, roanoke resident.
the introduction to Rhonda’s blog, More Than A Ride.
With my own mother currently being ravaged by cancer (prayers for her would be appreciated, I travel to see her again this coming weekend, perhaps for the last time) I am especially appreciative of Rhonda’s efforts to help raise funds and awareness for the battle against cancer.
Please check out her blog and also contribute some cash to her 45 mile Livestrong Challenge Ride on August 23. You can give online, it’s really easy.
Thanks, Rhonda.
p.s. the terrific photo of Rhonda is stolen from the fetching local magazine, Bella. There’s a great article about Rhonda and what she’s doing in the July edition on page 71.
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Wonder-Filled Grand Openings Wed July 1, 6 - 8 pm
Car Less Brit Museum and Virginia Museum of Transportation announce wonder-filled grand openings of 3 new bike culture events at the very same time! Wednesday July 1, 6 - 8 p.m.
**The Wonder-Filled Grand Opening of the Car Less Brit Museum
* bike culture art
* a virtual roanoke bike gang ride
* interactive bike activities for all types/ages
* bike lane for kiddies to ride on
* pedal-powered blender smoothies —u gotta pedal for it
* flat tire repair competition —old school style
* bike culture exhibits —tonnes of stuff touched on. ‘except 4 lycra shorts, no, they’re mentioned too just not shown, hehe!
* more fun stuff than this!
**2 wonder-filled new exhibits at the Virginia Museum of Transportation
** A Bicycle Obsession: David Saville’s bike collection
* chronicling a century of cycling
* Tour de France memorabilia
* unique items signed by cycling celebrities
* & more!
**Remembering Artie Levin
* bike and artifacts belonging to Roanoke’s own “Mr.
Fitness” & founder of Blue Ridge Bicycle Club (BRBC)
* visit the automobiles & historic locomotives at the
Virginia Museum of Transportation while here
* & more!
**FREE ADMISSION to Virginia Museum Tranportation Museum during these opening events, usually about $8, but it’s not after them!
**ADMISSION IS ALSO FREE AT the Car Less Brit Museum wonder-filled grand opening, but for this museum it will be free afterwards as well —he’s got far more money than he knows what to lose it on —the tough thing will be finding a time after the grand opening when the museum’s actually open for viewing!
*u can bike between locations,
or enjoy free vintage transit ride provided by the Commonwealth Coach & Trolley Museum
and for food…
*custom-made British cuisine at Car Less Brit Museum
* Maggie Moo’s ice cream at VA Museum of Transportation.
* food kindly bought, picked up, cooked by RIDE Solutions —who’re becoming close to obsessive, even creepy, with their endless cash handouts!
and everything’s free
His academic performance is the poorest of any student I have encountered in my years with the counseling program…
—
H. Thomas Mullis, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Counseling Psychology Program, Radford University (RU)
‘excerpt of short letter written by Mullis to RU admin staff & graduate school department directors, to deny an appeal and secure my permanent removal from the RU Graduate Psychology Department and all other graduate school programs at RU. I guess he was about aged 53 then & had had many years of RU students to compare me with.
But it wasn’t long before I saw that I was part of rather an exclusive group —the select few who have been kicked out of RU graduate school and forbidden to ever return! I’ve never met another member of this group actually
I am sure Mullis remains the utter dimwit (academically) he was back in those days. It’s shocking that a director of a graduate school department can be such an oaf. And to write such utter silliness about my academic performance and get away with it scott free!
I hear Mullins finally handed in his towell and retired from RU this year. RU is a much finer institution for it.
There are many fine professors at RU; stimulating, experts in their fields, teachers energized by their specialties and eager to educate their students responsibly. And RU is a university of broad and deep knowledge. How can such as Mullis rise through the ranks and hold on for such a long time with no one brave enough to stand up and fire their incompetent asses?!
It’s with pleasure that I was approached by The Magazine of Radford University to be featured in this issue on sustainability. Ah, and I don’t deny it, the thought of Mullis turning the pages and coming across my face does warm me!
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Car Less Brit experiment featured in current edition of The Magazine of Radford University (RU)
link goes to the online magazine —‘Car Less Brit article is page 27!
‘the magazine is primarily for RU alumni and it’s an impressive piece of work. It’s focus this edition is sustainability, and it’s very encouraging to read of all that RU is doing to be responsible environmentally . ‘a fine publication and i’m very happy to be featured in it.
