Event Article

Parade!

by Chandler Otis

The Gainesville Cycling Club will have a unit in the Homecoming parade on Friday, October 14. 

One of GCC's Service Groups is Bikes for Vets, which fixes up donated bikes to give to veterans at the Veterans Administration (VA's) Honor Center for medical rehabilitation or for basic transportation.   Veterans at the Honor Center will join us in our unit where we will feature historic American Flags including:

13 star flag -- the Betsy Ross

15 star and 15 stripe flag -- The Star Spangled Banner

26 star flag -- 1830-1845

33 star flag -- Fort Sumter flag-American Civil War

34 star flag --  American Civil War

48 star flag -- 1912-1959 The flag when many of us were born

50 star flag -- Today's flag

The flags are 3' x 5' and we will have them on 10 foot long PVC pipes as flagpoles.

If you would like to march with one of the flags, ride a bicycle with a flagpole attached to the rear rack of your bike, or just ride your bike in the parade, please let me know at chanbike@aol.com or call (352) 215-4247.

If you are good at making signs or posters, let me know, we need signs telling the above details about the flags.

Anyone wishing to make a small contribution to the event, we need to purchase 20 to 30 PVC pipes (they are about $2 to $3 each).