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Sustainable NCW’s Bike CoOp expands under Ecology grant

Sustainable NCW’s Bike CoOp expands under Ecology grant

Ollie Crain and Loren Honaas stand in front of the Bike Corral. Sustainable NCW’s Bike CoOp offered free bike parking at the Wenatchee Valley Farmers…

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Ollie Crain and Loren Honaas stand in front of the Bike Corral. Sustainable NCW’s Bike CoOp offered free bike parking at the Wenatchee Valley Farmers Market over the summer as part of its community outreach. COURTESY OF SUSTAINABLE NCW

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Posted Sunday, January 12, 2025 7:44 pm

Ward Media Staff Reporter

WENATCHEE – Sustainable NCW’s Bike CoOp will be launching its mobile bike repair, CoOp on the Go, after receiving grant funding from the Washington State Department of Ecology through the Air Quality for Overburdened Communities grant program.

Ecology’s new grant program funds local projects that improve air quality in communities it has determined are “historically overburdened with health, social, and environmental inequities and are highly impacted by air pollution,” which includes Wenatchee and East Wenatchee.

The mobile bike repair will allow the Bike CoOp to reach more communities, providing education and tools to empower both youth and adults to ride their bikes further and more often.“If you are empowered to bike, then you are helping the environment, because you’re not creating greenhouse gas emissions by driving, [and] you are helping yourself because it’s a healthy way to move…And biking is community building because it’s a little slower and we’re not disconnected from each other in our car bubbles,” said NCW Executive Director Marlene Farrell.The Bike CoOp started in spring of last year after Sustainable NCW met with interested community members to discuss creating a bike cooperative for the Wenatchee Valley. Of those members was Van Brinkerhoff, who has spent the […]

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