Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club receives grant for 75 new bikes
Summer workers from Lithuania and other parts of Eastern Europe, from left, Indre, Mindaugars, Mark and Radu, receive their bikes from Rotarian Rick Elder. Courtesy of Patty Seybold
Summer workers from Lithuania and other parts of Eastern Europe, from left, Indre, Mindaugars, Mark and Radu, receive their bikes from Rotarian Rick Elder. Courtesy of Patty Seybold
The Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club celebrated the 10th anniversary of its free bike loaner program with a $28,000 grant from the Chester and Muriel Dawes Foundation to support the Rotary’s bike program. This grant enabled the purchase of 75 new all aluminum bikes from Hudson, New York-based Priority Bicycles. Now, the fleet of bikes the Club loans out to summer workers contains 112 of these rust-free, low-maintenance, sturdy bikes.
The rest of the 100+ bikes loaned out each season are cobbled together from different models of used bikes, which are costly to repair and difficult to maintain. As of June 25, 2016, the Club had already loaned out almost 70 bikes. The bikes are available for free to those on our peninsula without transportation, but require a $100 refundable deposit as well as registration.
Any summer workers who are interested in obtaining a loaner bike for the rest of the summer should contact Seth Hedgcock at 633-2069 to arrange a time for pick-up.
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