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Join Blue Bikes This Thursday

At Buffalo Blue Bicycle recycling bicycles is a zen experience – a simplistic yet sometimes daunting machine is broken down to its barest components and reworked, re-oiled and put back together as a whole. The sum of all these parts is the most efficient human transport machine created. When you are out riding a bicycle that you have given new life that provides a smooth, comfortable ride; you experience a satisfying feeling of accomplishment. Riding a bicycle is an experience that brings back childhood memories for many of us. Unfortunately that was the last time many rode. The bicycle, as the forefront to all our motorized transportation, is to some no more then a childhood recreational device. At Buffalo Blue Bicycle we want to re-think bicycles and are out to dispel that myth!

Doesn’t this look like a good job?

Buffalo Blue Bicycle is hiring an instructor for its after school
program Recycle-A-Bicycle. The goal of Recycle-A-Bicycle (RAB) is to
provide instruction and training in bicycle rebuilding, safety, health
and environmental issues to students.

Our instructors need to have a general knowledge of bicycles, their
maintenance and repair. Experience working with youth is also a plus.

In addition the RAB instructor will be:

• responsible for developing tool and supply inventory
• transporting necessary supplies to the on-site workshop
• delivery of program by supervising and instructing student
  participants
• meets with program staff on regular basis to discuss program
  needs and ideas for improvement
• provides program management with necessary assistance and
  direction to insure successful operation of each activity
• maintains activities within budget limitations and maintains
  accurate records on program participants as mandated by funding sources
• keeps detailed descriptions of each program activity
• maintains activity attendance sheets, participant surveys, time
  sheets and any other forms related to program activity
• issues information releases to parents and guardians regarding
  available programs and activities

If you are interested, please send a letter and resume to the address
below. Any questions feel free to call.

Thank you,
Justin S. Booth MS
The Wellness Institute of Greater Buffalo
65 Niagara Square Rm. 607
Buffalo, NY 14202
(716)851-4052
Fax:(716)851-4309

I know Justin (doesn’t everyone who bikes in Buffalo?), and I get email messages from him about all kinds of bicycle issues. There are a couple workshops held every week where you can go and work on bikes, and for the past couple years I’ve been trying to find time to go to one. The problem for me is that, in addition to my day job, I also ride my bike taxi, so my time is very limited AND the Buffalo Blue Bikes building is on the other side of town from where I live, making it hard to ride my bike home after a long day. But one of these days, I’m going to go and help work on bikes for the Blue Bicycles program, and I encourage you to check it out, too.