Bikes For Angels; Nonprofit donates over 700 bikes to county kids

By Monica Faram | www.cleburnetimesreview.com

Christmas just got a little bit brighter for more than 700 Johnson County kids thanks to Bikes For Angels.

On Wednesday, about 16 trailers carrying over 700 bicycles and helmets pulled into the Joshua High School parking lot. Volunteers spent the day delivering the bikes to schools all over Johnson County, with plans to deliver more on Friday.

Joshua ISD administrators met with the volunteers to thank them for the donations.

“We want to thank the Curlees, all of these volunteers,” Joshua ISD Superintendent Fran Marek said. “We thank you for continuing to do this for our kiddos and having the heart and time. You guys put a lot into it. Every child should have the opportunity to wake up on Christmas morning and have that sparkle in their …

Volunteers need help replacing stolen ghost bikes in Houston

Jay R. Jordan | www.chron.com

Family members of Joel Middaugh, a Houston father and art model, watch as Steve and Melissa Sims install a ghost bike is installed in the 2800 block of West Little York Road, near the site where Middaugh died, on Dec. 12, 2021.

‘I have tons of donated bikes and a long list,’ volunteer Steve Sims said.

Installing Houston’s ghost bikes is hard work for volunteers Steve and Melissa Sims. The couple leads efforts to memorialize each and every cyclist killed on Houston streets by installing a solid-white bike on stretches of road around town, and their work is unfortunately never-ending.

But when those memorials are stolen, vandalized or destroyed, it makes their labor of love an even bigger task. The two have been installing ghost bikes in Houston since 2013 and took over the …

‘Trunk of Hope’ to offer El Paso kids bicycles for Christmas

by Amanda Guillen | kfoxtv.com

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — The season of giving is in full swing in the Borderland.

Several organizations are partnering to help give back to the children in need.

Operation Hope along with the A&A All The Way Foundation and the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office are combining forces to host this year’s Trunk of Hope. …

Two cyclists hit and killed by motorists in Houston over the weekend

Jay R. Jordan | www.chron.com

Police are looking for the driver of a car that fled the scene after striking 30-year-old Juan Rosales Villalobos, one of two cyclists hit and killed by drivers in Houston over the weekend.

Two cyclists were killed by drivers within 24 hours of one another in separate collisions across Greater Houston over the weekend. In one of the cases, investigators are searching for a hit-and-run driver who fled the scene.

The first incident occurred shortly after noon Friday when the driver of a Freightliner semi truck collided with 65-year-old Anthony Williams near the 200 block of East Little York Road off Northline Drive, according to the Houston Police Department. The truck driver was turning onto East Little York from Northline when they struck Williams, who was …

Resuscitation of an Austin Ghost Bike, Part 2

A Dude Abikes | adudeabikes.com

Part 1 is at this link if you missed it. The short version is I and a few folks are reinstalling a bicycle that’s a memorial for a woman killed while working on her bike in the bike lane in December 2019. Her name was Merry “Cookie” Daye. This is the rest of the story.

Previous posts are linked here (Austin Bicyclist Death #4…) and here (Silent Ride of Remembrance).

I finally got around to spray painting the bike for Cookie. Lauren, who worked with Houston Ghost Bike and thus is the real leader of this effort, provided a can of appliance enamel, which should last longer. I did it in two stages, and it was a bit of a smelly pain, but manageable. In future I’ll try to arrange for it to be done in a place where it can be locked inside on the ground floor. It’s not a perfect job because I ran out of paint and didn’t have a stand for it. But it looks …

Texas Biking from Twitter

Thank you to the dedicated community volunteers from Hollywood Heights and beyond who retouched the paint on the bicycle ???? mural and pulled weeds at Brookside bridge on Saturday. pic.twitter.com/zn5KlGTcDJ

— Santa Fe Trail (@FoSFT) December 13, 2021

So glad that we were able to help out. https://t.co/SChyhoKsm8

— RecycledCycles of TX (@RCOTX) December 13, 2021