Second Annual Christmas in August

The Brad Brain Charitable Foundation in partnership with The Salvation Army

Second Annual Christmas in August Motorcycle Toy Run

PRESS RELEASE
July 5, 2006

The Brad Brain Charitable Foundation is pleased to announce that its second annual motorcycle toy run will be held on Saturday, August 12, 2006. The event will begin at the North Peace Recreation Centre, registration beginning at 9:00 am. All proceeds from this event will go to the Salvation Army’s Family Programs and the Christmas Hamper Program. The Salvation Army has taken over the Christmas Hamper Program, and we hope to give them a great start to the Christmas season.

The Run will leave Fort St John at 10:00. Our first stop is Iron Cycle, 10215 13th St. Dawson Creek, where riders from the South Peace will have an opportunity to join the run. We will then ride through Chetwynd and Hudson’s Hope before returning to Fort St John. We’ll finish up with a barbeque at approximately 5:00 pm at the Fort St John Rec Centre. The cost to participate in the event is $20.00 plus a new, unwrapped toy. The entry fee includes the barbeque.

New to this year’s event will be a Bug Run. For an additional $20 donation to the Salvation Army participants will be given a “bull’s eye” to fix to their bike. Prizes will be given for closest to the bull’s eye, and for the biggest splat.

All proceeds from this event support the Salvation Army and all of the good work they do for the community.

The Brad Brain Charitable Foundation and the Salvation Army would like to express their appreciation to all the supporters of the event.

The Brad Brain Charitable Foundation is a registered society dedicated to supporting charitable causes in Fort St John. Over the past six years the foundation has raised over $50,000 for local causes including the Fort St John Hospital Foundation, The Darren Almond Memorial Travel Foundation, The Child Development Centre and the SPCA.

How You Can Help

Participate – All bikes are welcome. Join us for a day of great riding, food and camaraderie.

Donate – All community –minded people are invited to drop of their cash or toy donations at the Fort St John Rec Centre between 9:00 and 10:00 am..

Sponsor- We are in need of prize donations. No donation is too big or small, all are most gratefully appreciated.

Buy A T-Shirt – Official ride t-shirts will be available for $20 each, all proceeds going to the Salvation Army.

For more information contact:

Brad Brain or Lucie Brain

Brad Brain Charitable Foundation
(250) 785-1655
bradbrain@telus.net or ljanosek@berkshire.ca

Ride Info
Register between 9 and 10 am
Ride departs at 10 am.
Total Distance: approx 332 km.
Estimated Ride Time (including stops): 6 – 7 hours

What is the BDB Club and who belongs?

Have you logged onto the www.beltdrivebetty.com site recently?

If not, I encourage you to. We consistently have 10,000 unique visitors to our web site every month now and are growing!
We have tons of information available on the public portion of the site, but in the BDB club Members area, there is even more for you to do and access.

If you are a subscriber to the paper, on line or in print – you are a BDB Club Member automatically.
If you have never logged in to the members area, please do so and create an account and password.
Once you are set up in the system, there are all kinds of tools available to you there.

You can have your own photo album, post free on line classified ads, add event information to our calendar and have your own calendar to keep your appointments and events organized, chat with other riders, find out where the biker parties, ride nights and other motorcycle events are. Here you will also find information on ride groups and when they meet, as you use the site we encourage you to send in your feed back. We want this site to contain the information you want! Submit a story, get your riding club information listed, and tell other riders where the good food and services are!

The www.beltdrivebetty.com web site is evolving and changing daily. With over 2,000 pages of information it is becoming the resource for motorcycle enthusiasts who surf the web looking for information on the Canadian motorcycle scene! But check in often, because coding the intricate information into the pages takes time and we have pages being added daily!

Coming in the future – 2 to 4 months down the road, there will be surveys that you can take from businesses that want to know more about the goods, services and products you want. And, there will be rewards for filling out those surveys!

Another feature that is in the works and will be ready to launch soon: The dealer retailer locator service. This will be a great tool for riders as we will be able to find the goods and services we are looking for in a very easy manner.
The locator service is just one in many steps toward creating our very own Bikers Phone book which we hope to release in
18 – 24 months.

Suzie has been working her little fingers off to create a warm and inviting web site and over the coming months there will be many more services installed into the web site for you, the rider to use. So come and visit www.beltdrivebetty.com
If you have any special requests of our web mistress Suzie of Alig8r Web Design, please don’t hesitate to contact her at alig8r@shaw.ca Between her and me, we will do our best to seek out the tools you’d like to have available to you on the site.

Share your story, your rant, information about your community, riding club and its events! And remember to use your Bikers Discount Buying Club Card often, it saves you money and proves to our advertisers that you read the Knuckle.
Oh, and don’t forget to visit the Cougar Cave and enter your most original sticker saying – You could win a Caribbean Cruise for 2 on Hogs on the High Seas Rally in 2007 or $3,000 cash!

The Bikers Discount Buying Club - saves you money! Belt Drive Betty & The Busted Knuckle Chronicles, working hard to keep you informed and connected.

Belt Drive Betty
The Busted Knuckle Chronicles
www.beltdrivebetty.com
10908-102 S.
Grande Prairie, AB T8V 2X3
780-402-8892 – phone/fax
bdbetty@telus.net

Freecycle

This was submitted by Classy Rider - a few of us have checked it out and it seems pretty cool!

Here's what she sent:

We have newly discovered a GREAT internet website that enables you to get things for free and get rid of the clutter in your home. This site is called FREECYCLE! (www.freecycle.ca) When you go to the site, you simply click on your country, and find the group closest to you! All you need is a yahooID (which is free to get) and then you are in! I set up my account to not send me any email as I check the site when I have time and this way my junk mail box doesn't get filled up with all the notices. In the last week, we have gotten a swing for on the deck of our new home, TONS of kids toys, found out about free stuff at garage sales, a high chair and coupons! People are giving away almost anything you can think of.The purpose of the site is to eliminate people throwing things in the garbage that could be reused....you are not allowed to ask for money for your items and no one asks you for money. 

Most of the communication is done by email. Most times, people leave the items on their porch and you just go and get it!

Classy Rider

It's all coming together!

The show is shaping up beautifully.
I have a new office administrator, hopefully no one offers her more money and I can keep her a while!
Glad to see that WyzWmn is back on line! I don't know about the rest of you but I sure enjoy her wit!

No one has donated any airmiles to us, but we are bringing the kids from the Bike Club to Wembley and taking them on a tour of the NAIT Fairview M/C training facilities.
It's been rough but the kids raised enough money to get 5 of them here and I had enough aeroplan miles to get 2 of them here. Mr. Mazzy's ticket was purchased by Toys for Big Boys in Moncton so - they are coming!

Peter Jonsson of MCM and Kopteri Magazines in Sweden & Finland is confirmed as is TBear of American Iron and The Horse Magazines!

Our Canadian press is set to come so Builders - we are providing you with your opportunity to wow the cameras!

Peace River Toy Run

Here's an update on our Toy Run

11:00am to 1:30 pm show & shine

2:00pm to 5:00 (apprx) poker rally

We will be ending the poker rally at our local spca where they will have some grub & refreshments available, so we will be contributing to two charities.

We will be set up on mainstreet in the block that houses Subway and Movie Gallery. Access should be available thru alleys on north and south sides of mainstreet

Looking forward to seeing you there, thanks

Jill - Peace River

Any questions give me a call at 624-1713

7 incredible kids coming to the Bike Show we hope!

Air Miles Anyone?
Not enough air miles collected to go on that dream vacation? Wondering what to do with them? Consider donating them to help a teen go on their dream vacation. 

WHAT / WHEN:
NAIT Fairview Campus is working with Renee Charbonneau, Coordinator of the Canadian Championship of Bike Building event, Wembley, Alberta this Labour Day weekend, September 2, 3 and 4, 2006. 

WHO:
Seven students from the Bernice McHaughton High School Industrial Arts program in Moncton, New Brunswick re-connected with the excitement of learning through “The Bike Club” where they learn how to build “chopper” bicycles. While working hard on their project, they have been dreaming of attending the Bike show; meeting some of their heroes(like Tom Langton of Rumble Customs, Chica of Chica Customs and Heather Ireland of Biker TV) and of becoming motorcycle technicians at Canada’s #1 Motorcycle Technical Training Centre. 

HOW:
By donating your air miles, you could help these teens achieve their dream. To find out more about the project, go to www.beltdrivebetty.com and click on the “Pedals to Pegs” link on the left hand side.

For information on how to donate, contact Renee Charbonneau (A.K.A. Belt Drive Betty) at
Address: 10908-102 St. Grande Prairie

Grande Prairie
Alberta
Canada
T8V 2X3

Toll-free: 877-402-8892
Email: bdbetty@telus.net

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