A Gentle Suggestion
It’s only August, but I encourage you to start thinking about our upcoming Portland Bicycling Club banquet in early February 2025. Look around for exceptional. There are many club members who are exemplary. Make some notes to yourself. The awards committee will want a name and to know your rationale for your nomination.
Summer’s warm weather and many activities (think PIONEER, STP and PICNIC, for example) and club rides give our members an opportunity to shine. Who do you see volunteering at EVERY function? Who do you see riding farther and showing skills and strength previously unseen? Who had an accident and is on the mend and back on the bike? Who is your favorite ride leader and why? Who do you see as a friendly, welcoming ambassador for the club? ✎
Remember where you put the notes! In November and December, the awards committee (comprised of previous recipients of the Jim Mooney Member of the Year Award) will be asking for nominations for awards to be presented at the banquet. Your poor brain won’t have to reach back through an entire year to try to remember who did what. No! You, the clever cyclist that you are, shrewdly made some notes months before and now need only to refer to those notes and send in some nominations! How easy is that?
And if you just can’t make the SPD cleat fit into the SPEEDPLAY pedals, just create your own award for someone, and have a little fun!
The awards banquet thrives on awards. Nominations generate the awards. Think about it a little now. It will result in well-deserved, thoughtful, and appropriate awards going to worthy recipients.
To get a clue of what you are looking for regarding criteria, log in to our website in the upper right corner. Using the members’ only pulldown menu under your picture (if there is one), go to Awards (login required).
Thank you.
Ann Morrow, President