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 Saturday, May 22, 2010 Setting at Liberty Those Who Live with Limitations 816-803-8371 Box 442 Liberty, MO 64069 RideforMS@aol.com www.greaterliberty.org From Biscari Brothers Bicycles in Liberty. Three great routes! Fully supported. A full description of our ride will soon appear on our website. |
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Saturday, May 20, 2006 By Ed Chasteen
Steve drove to the MS Society headquarters in Shawnee Mission on Wednesday before our Saturday ride. He makes this same trip every year before our Greater Liberty Ride for MS. He picked up road signs, first aid kits, coolers, tents and other essentials for a safe and delightful ride. Then he and Greg and Michael met Friday afternoon at Price Chopper to get the hamburgers and hotdogs and chips and cookies and doughnuts and fruit the store was donating for our pre and post ride party. The three of them then went to mark the route. Twice during the night, Steve was called in to work. But they got it done. The three of them are at Biscari Brothers Bicycles early Saturday morning. Together with Dave and Alex Biscari and their helpers, they have the tents up, the tables in place and everything ready when Helen, Ron, Jean, Sharon and Seth’s dad arrive, eager to register riders. Michael has been a powerful presence in all four of our Greater Liberty Rides. He designed our first logo and taught us how to line up sponsors. His background in sport’s marketing set us on the right road early on. His love for building bicycles is contagious and his competence in all things related to biking and fund raising inspires and encourages us all. Duane is here with his SAG crew. Pickups, motorcycles and ham radios. Between each of our eight rest stops, they have us covered. McDonald’s here in Liberty has donated everything thing we need for our rest stops: bottled water, Poweraide, fresh-baked cookies and sliced apples. We also have the orange barrels with the McDonald’s logo at each rest stop and a McDonald’s banner displayed on our big tent at the starting line. The parking lot fills. The line grows long. Happy talk everywhere. Promptly at 7AM, the first wave of riders departs. Some bound for Excelsior Springs and a rest stop at the Hall of Waters. The outermost destination for many, a way stop for others bound for Richmond and the gala welcome prepared for us on the Ray County Courthouse lawn by the Chamber of Commerce. Those who return from Excelsior Springs will ride 35 miles today. To Richmond and back through Rayville doubles the mileage. Parents with young children come to the starting line at 8 AM for an eight mile round trip ride out to Stocksdale Park and back. Steve has brought his brand new, never used gas grill. Dale comes to grill the hot dogs and hamburgers and have them ready before the first riders return. He stays until near 3 o’clock, to welcome the last rider in from the road. We all stand and cheer for him and give him an award for “the rider with most time to enjoy the road.” Dale has been our cook every year. His job kept him from our planning sessions this year, but he designed and maintains our www.greaterliberty.org website. Without Dale, no one would know about us. Because of him, anybody with inter net access anywhere in the world can know the most up to the minute plans we have. Gary is here early with his camera, snapping pictures everywhere. Of everybody. He gets us on film at the starting line. And as we leave. He drives to Stocksdale Park to picture the family riders. He drives the route. He’s at home by 10. By 10:30, he’s back at Biscari’s with 25 CDs of our ride, ready for returning riders. Rich pops over for a short visit late in the morning. Rich has been our detail man in planning all four Greater Liberty Rides. He rode the first three. Today, though, he is obligated at Liberty’s Spring on the Square and getting folks to view the old steam locomotive that has come for the occasion. He can’t ride. But he has to check on us. His 89 year old father, widowed just a short time back, is signed up for the family ride. When his dad was 75, Rich and I planned a 75-mile ride with him. He made it all the way. Richard is here to ride. He has been a valuable member of our planning team from the beginning. He called me one day years ago and asked me to have lunch with him at Fuddrucker’s in Independence, not far from his office. He was captain of a team of riders for the MS-150. He had heard about our Saturday Morning Riders and thought maybe we could work together. We joined ranks that day. And all have prospered ever since. A first for us this year. Porta Potties. Two of them. One of the neighboring businesses had opened up early in the past and let us use their restrooms. But they went under. We had to make other plans. Alex had a friend. Viola! Two Porta Potties sit side by side in the parking lot this morning. Helen has been our registrar for our Greater Liberty Ride since its inception. Her dependability is exceeded only by her competence. She keeps accurate and comprehensive records. Each year she assembles a different crew to help her, while managing to stay on top of things and turn in a stellar performance. Greg has been to all of our Monday evening planning sessions at K Street Bistro. His ideas and good spirit have made our work downright fun. He’s a powerful rider and a powerful presence among us. In his work he regularly visits in widely scattered communities across our metro. He took our Greater Liberty flyers with him and gave us exposure we could not have gotten without him. Sharon is married to Steve. Each of them separately brings many skills and resources to our planning. Sharon knows all about printing layout and design. She works in the field. Steve works at a company where he can make signs. Steve is a strong rider. (After being up most of the night marking the route and being called in to work and coming early to set up for the Saturday ride, Steve makes the 70 mile ride to Richmond and is back to work hours before helping to break everything down and get it back where it belongs) Sharon has MS. She sometimes rides with Steve on their tandem when we do our Saturday rides. Brian and Cindy played major parts in planning our second and third Greater Liberty Rides for MS. They both are here to ride today. But when Brian took a job back in Arizona, from whence they had moved here, they had to turn their attention toward that near time when Cindy will pack up the girls and join him. Brian flies home most weekends. They both ride with us when they can. But week day planning sessions were not possible. Petra and Alex ride with us on Saturdays. Petra, nearly all the time. Alex, when work permits. Both are dependable and imaginative members of our planning team. Both have different skills that aid our work and keep us focused. Seth is a longtime member of our planning team. He rides like the wind. His computer and map skills have served us well. A new baby has required his presence elsewhere on Monday evenings, but he has been a valuable member of our planning team, even without being physically present. Seth set it up so that riders could register and pay online. Many did so. Don has driven his van behind the last rider for the last few miles. Steve compliments Don on his patience. Don says, “When you’ve been in a wheelchair for 20 years, you learn to be patient.” Every year Don comes in his van and motorized wheelchair and bring his short wave radio and many ham operators. I am humbled and awed to be in the company of these folks. I’m old and slow and without much talent for biking. I love to ride. I love being on the road. I love meeting folks and hearing their stories. I love getting people together. As best I know how to describe it, I lead from last place. Sounds crazy. Leaders are supposed to be out front. But I’m always last on any ride. But when the ride is over, I love just as much sitting at my computer and with two fingers pecking out my story of what has just happened on the road. Today’s Fourth Annual Greater Liberty Ride for MS was a work of art. All went off without a hitch. Already I am dreaming of our Fifth Annual Greater Liberty Ride for MS on May 19, 2007. I will play only a small part. All of these I mentioned will make it happen. Nothing goes on forever. Next year may not happen. How long will these good folks, and others who step up from time to time, allow it to be? We’ll see. But again this year we raised thousands of dollars for MS. We will know exactly how much in a few days when all the numbers are in. But our ride today was only the kickoff for the Greater Liberty Ride that goes on all year. From this glorious beginning, I will be riding most every day. Every Saturday, a bunch of us will ride. Then on the weekend after Labor Day in September, we all will join Richard’s team to ride the MS-150. I will be asking for donations to MS everywhere I go somewhere on my bike. I will send email and snail mail far and wide to people I know asking them to give. And all of this will be counted as money raised by our Greater Liberty Ride for MS. I am putting together a little book about our four Greater Liberty Rides. I will send one to every contributor. Join us any Saturday all year for our weekly Greater Liberty Ride. Make plans to join us on May 19, 2007 when we kickoff our next awareness and fundraising year for MS. Our goal is to free folks from the physical, mental and spiritual limitations imposed on them by this cruel disease. Join us and we will win |
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