Building bikes for community
Dre Lopez of Littleton grew up BMX-ing and believes bikes are a great way for youth to enjoy the outdoors. The April 22 event was the second time Lopez has volunteered to build bikes for Can’d Aid.
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Amanda Willshire of northwest Denver discovered her love of welding through volunteer work, she said. Willshire has volunteered with Can’d Aid before, but the April 22 event was the first time she had built bikes with the organization.
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Jan Lee Bland enjoys volunteering. She lives in Johnstown but works in Denver. Though she had never built bikes before, she decided to volunteer with Can’d Aid for the April 22 event because it was for a good cause.
Eric Brodell of Arvada ran a program similar to Can’d Aid in Indiana about eight years ago, before he moved to Colorado, he said. His two passions are bikes and working with youth, he added.
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Duncan Parrish of Englewood has volunteered with Can’d Aid a few times in the past. He said he loves bikes and believes every child should have access to a bike that they can ride.
Friends and roommates of northeast Denver, Kelsey Thompson, left, and Autumn Brennan, had been looking into additional volunteer opportunities. Though they had never built bikes before, they saw Can’d Aid’s event on Facebook and thought it sounded like fun.
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Community members from across the Denver-metro area volunteered building bikes with Can’d Aid. The event took place on April 22 on Infinite Monkey Theorem’s patio in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood. Spaced out to adhere to social distancing, the volunteers built 35 bikes that were donated to the middle schoolers at Peak Expeditionary School in Wheat Ridge to be part of the youths’ physical education programming. Can’d Aid is a Colorado-based national nonprofit that helps build communities through its various programs and volunteer opportunities. The bike build was part of the Treads + Trails program. To learn more about Can’d Aid, visit https://candaid.org.
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Can’d Aid,
Treads + Trails,
Denver,
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