Letter: Many hands make bikes work

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Letter: Many hands make bikes work

Wed, 05/09/2018 - 12:48pm

By:

Frank Lupton, Don Schwartz, Constance Anderson, Patty Svien, Greg Schreck, Skip Jobe and Jim Schreck

To the editor:

Over the past 7 years an effort has been on-going to establish a viable community bikes program in Lake City.

It started with a few individuals who had seen bikes available to be used by anyone within city limits in local area towns and wondered “Why not in Lake City?”

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