[E-updates] City accepting used bikes

[Lisa Patterson]

NEWS RELEASE City of Lawrence, Kansas

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



December 18, 2003



CONTACT: Tom Orzulak, street division manger, (785) 832-3021

Stacy Robarge, member Rivercity Lions Club, (785) 760-4094

Kyle Deere, Lansing Correctional Facility, (913) 727-3235 xt. 7210



City accepting used bikes



(LAWRENCE, KS) - The Street Division of the Public Works Department is accepting 

used bikes at its building, 1120 Haskell Ave.  The new service is being offered 

so that bikes in all states of disrepair can be collected and refurbished rather 

than sent to a landfill.  The community can take bikes to the Street Maintenance 

Building weekdays from 7:30a.m. until 4:00p.m.



Collected bikes will be picked up by staff from the Lansing Correctional Facility 

and delivered to the facility's refurbishing program.  The donations will 

complete a circle each May when the Rivercity Lions Club distributes refurbished 

bikes at the Lawrence Helmet Fair conducted by the Lawrence-Douglas County Fire 

and Medical Department.



In May 2003, the Lions provided bikes from the refurbishing program to thirty 

Lawrence youth.  City staff recognized the need to continue supplying used and 

unwanted bikes to the program, so the Public Works Department identified a 

collection and storage site and began accepting bikes.



"We are thrilled to support a program that recycles bikes.  While the collecting 

and storing might not be something normally listed as street maintenance duties, 

we are happy to be the designated drop off site in the community," explains Tom 

Orzulak, street division manger.  The collection site could be busy after the 

holiday season as children receive new bikes and need to dispose of old bikes.



Bikes in any condition and all states of disrepair can be dropped off at the 

Street Maintenance Division building, during regular business hours.  Street 

Division staff will securely store the bikes until approximately 12 bikes are 

collected then staff will contact Lansing Correctional Facility and request a 

pick up.



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_____________________________

Lisa K. Patterson

Communications Coordinator

City of Lawrence

PO Box 708

Lawrence, KS 66044

(785) 832-3406

fax (785) 832-3405

lpatterson at ci.lawrence.ks.us

http://www.lawrenceks.org