City of Lights First Annual Awards Dinner a Success!

August 17, 2010 at 6:38 pm | Posted in LACBC Events | 2 Comments
Tags: city of lights

First off, a warm and hearty thank you to all of the bicycle, immigrant rights, and social justice communities and volunteers that turned out for our dinner last Thursday! We honored Councilman Ed Reyes, Raul Añorve, IDEPSCA Executive Director, and two day laborer center coordinators, Jose Veliz and Ernesto Vázquez for their hard work and contributions to keeping City of Lights vibrant and equitable. What a great turnout-we had roughly 80 in attendance, lovely food, courtesy of Advantage Catering, large Silent and Live Auctions and raised quite a bit of money! This is truly important in order to keep City of Lights sustainable, as well as retaining the ability to keep focused on our work on the ground in the community, based off of their needs.

LACBC Staff with Councilman Reyes and Staffer Jill Sourial

The Dinner benefited City of Lights, our unique program that outreaches to Latino cyclists. Our programs include Spanish language safety education and repair classes at two day laborer centers in Central LA: CARECEN and IDEPSCA. We are a grassroots, primarily volunteer driven collective that is passionate about bridging the large immigrant cyclist community with the mainstream cyclist community. For more info, check the City of Lights blog: www.la-bike.org/cityoflights

Jose, a City of lights Volunteer and Day Laborer is Presented a Check

A second round of thanks to our sponsors and donors:

Road Bike Sponsor:
GEK Law
Lester and Kim Mannos

Fixed Gear Sponsor:
Councilman Reyes’ Office
LA Dodgers-Howard Sunkins
Arnie Berghoff

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tandem Sponsor:
Florentine Gardens
Efren Moreno
El Maestro Bike Shop
Morrie Goldman
Councilwoman Perry’s Office

Cruiser Sponsor:
Lourdes Lopez

 

City of Lights 2010 Fundraising Crew

To all of our In-kind Donors:
REI, BudgetPro Bicycles, Orange20 Bicycles, Laemmle Theatres, Flying Pigeon Bicycles, Ernesto Vazquez, LA Cafe, Bill Orozco, Raquel Trinidad, Mark Tran, Brian Rayner, Golden Rose Florist, Gil Garcetti, USC, Whole Foods, Hembert Guardado, Louise Marler, Lakers-Don Ward, Clifbar, Brooke Harker, InCycle Bicycles, Open Road Bicycles, Lieutenant Mustardseed, Alexis Lantz, Vicki Karlan, Ashira Siegel, Two Rabbit Gallery, LADOT, Metro, Super Print Shop, and MBE Digital

For more Pictures, check our Facebook page

-allison@la-bike.org

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