$1,030.00

This is my eighteenth year riding in the Friends For Life Bike Rally. I started simply as a rider in 2005 as a means to do some volunteer work that matched my interests - in this case cycling. I soon learned about Toronto PWA, it’s work and the need. Making it easy to continue year after year is that the remarkably caring and open culture of this group is in the DNA of the bike-rally. In the past several years, in addition to riding the 600 km to Montreal, I have been contributing as a co-team leader and this year have added my involvement in the Training and Safety Committee, which includes leading winter training Spin sessions on Zoom. So for me it’s not a casual enterprise but it is a lot of fun.

The main aim, of course is to get donations for Toronto PWA to support its work and its clients. So I’m hoping my commitment encourages donors to support me in this campaign. And, as I’ve said for the last five years, I won’t cheaply leverage the fact that I’m cycling as a septuagenarian to get more donations.

If you have really deep pockets, want to donate a lot and live within easy range of me, for donations over $250 I’ll bake you a pie; over $100 a baker’s dozen of cookies.