Please join us for Cranksgiving, a food drive on two wheels.
We've teamed with the Downtown Columbia Partnership to host our second annual Cranksgiving this Saturday. Cranksgiving is designed to provide active recreation for local residents, raise awareness about the county's bikable pathway system and generate food items for individuals and families in need.
Registered participants will bike from their homes this Saturday, November 12th picking up requested food items along the way at nearby grocery stores. Drop off will be at Azlon Plaza in the Merriweather District of Downtown Columbia from 9AM - 12Noon. Cranksgiving shirts will be available to the first 200 individuals who register for the event and all registered participants will have the opportunity to spin the wheel and win bicycle safety and bicycle commute gear. Registration is FREE, but you’ll need to purchase food to donate.
Let your two wheels provide their three squares!
For more information and updates, click here. To register, click here.
Can’t make it this Saturday but want to help? Bike HoCo (f/k/a Bicycling Advocates of Howard County) is here for you! For a contribution of $24 (the date of Thanksgiving this year) they'll give you an annual membership AND send a cyclist with a food item donation to the event. Include "Cranksgiving Surrogate" in the Special Instructions field on their donation page.
Donations benefit Grassroots, Howard County's 24-hour crisis intervention center and shelter for people who are homeless.
Grassroots is in need of canned fruit, chicken, tuna, Chef Boyardee, SpaghettiOs, chili, chunky soups, Dinty Moore beef stew, baked beans with meat, Libby's corned beef, Vienna sausages, and Spam and peanut butter and jelly.
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