新人教版八年级英语下册Unit 2 Recycle Works Bike Re-Use Event

Recycle Works: Bike Re-Use Event
Residents dropped off their old bikes at nine locations
throughout the County, while SamTrans, the Police Activities
League, and several city police stations contributed large
numbers of used bicycles. On Saturday, October 19, the
bicycles were shuttled to two locations where they were fixed
up by volunteer mechanics.
In San Mateo, sixty volunteers including mechanics
from Pacific Bicycles, Bikestation Palo Alto, Chain Reaction, REI and The Bike Hut spent the day fixing up 160 bicycles. The volunteers shared tools they brought from home, and scavenged parts from bicycles destined for metal recycling to use for repairing higher-quality bikes. Among the volunteers were thirteen men from Project Ninety, a drug and alcohol rehab center, who each took home a bicycle at the end of the day. The other restored bikes are headed for the Samaritan House and the Children's Fund in time for the holidays.
In East Palo Alto, Major Taylor Cycling Club members and other assorted volunteers worked alongside children from the Human Services Agency and Clara-Mateo Alliance to fix up 60 bicycles. Each child participated in the Sheriff-sponsored bike rodeo（竞技）and went home at the end of the day with a recycled bicycle and brand new helmet.
Overall, the Bicycle Re-Use Event resulted in 280 bicycles being repaired and many frames and parts recycled for metal. The remaining unfinished bikes will be funneled（使……汇集）to Major Taylor Cycling Club, the Mt. View Community Service Agency Bike Exchange and the Bike Hut for further repair.
Event Photos Michael Ayala, Pacific Bicycles Regional Bicycle repair in progress. Manager, does quality control on a kid's bike.
Children learn biking basics at the
Sheriff-sponsored bike rodeo.
Poems from the Event
Poems by youths who participated in the Major Taylor Cycling Club event:
Bikes are fun
To ride in the sun
It can be even funner
In the rain puddles.
-Rawena
Bikes are good to ride
& it gives me such a good vibe
give me one please &
you might see me outside.
- Quinton Temon Gipson
Bikes are tight
& when I'm down
they make me
feel alright
if you give me one it
will give me something more positive to do than fight. -anonymous。