Local cycling advocates, the Invermere District Hospital Environmental Sustainability Committee, Cycling Without Age, the East Kootenay Foundation for Health (EKFH), the Rotary Club of Invermere, and representatives from several local cycling stores mark a donation from the Rotary Club to the EKFH to help fund bike racks at the Invermere hospital last week, on June 1, which was also the fourth day of GoByBike Week. (Photo by Steve Hubrecht) By Steve Hubrecht
steve@columbiavalleypioneer.com
A crew of a few dozen residents gathered outside the Invermere hospital last week to celebrate a successful local version of the province-wide GoByBike Week (which was then still in progress) and to mark a donation that is helping build new bike racks at the hospital.
On Thursday, June 1 local cycling advocates, the Invermere District Hospital Environmental Sustainability Committee, Cycling Without Age, the East Kootenay Foundation for Health (EKFH), the Rotary Club of Invermere, and representatives from several local cycling stores were on hand (and on wheels) during the fourth day of GoByBike Week, talking passionately about the benefits of carbon free commuting and witnessing a $2,270 donation from the Rotary Club to the EKFH for the racks.
EKFH executive director Brenna Baker had come up from Cranbrook for the occasion, a signal of the growing importance of promoting healthy lifestyles as a part of medicine. Baker was perhaps the only person of the several dozen on site not to have commuted at least partly by bike (in her defence she faced a round trip commute […]
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