Bikes, Dads, and a Launch Party.

Sunday wasn't only Father's Day for us, it was also the day of Don's Campaign Launch Party! Dexter was there in his little polo to cheer on his dad (thanks to Raffaella for the super cute photo).

What a great opportunity to see old and new volunteers, and people from the community.

We were very lucky to have an extremely strong volunteer base last time. They were essentially the foundation of success, particularly since we were the campaign that had substantially less funds than others. Grassroots, all the way!

Volunteers are coming out of the woodwork again, and we're so fortunate to have such support.

Here are Wade and Phil prepping the bar before the party. They were amazing! And they took very good care slinging drinks from Alley Kat and Transcend.





I had to get there early (I was the madam of the party), but Don came a little later on his Batavus.





Extraordinary Nate Box of elm café was behind the food at the party. This guy, and his beautiful wife, Claire, is amazing. He opened his own café within a week of this party and he STILL came to help us out. He is our hero. The food was fresh. The food was great.





Great to see smiling faces and bright colours at our party.







I didn't take many of my own photos at the party because I had the wrong lens for the light, and I was busy. I stole these two photos from Mack, though.

The first one is me and Sable.





These are my new shoes!





And there were several other cyclists there too. Brittany here, with her basket of stuff.





Looking good and ready to roll.







She and her finacée, Michael Janz, say bye bye to the party.





It was a lot of work, but thanks to the help of our invaluable volunteers and the civic-minded guests, it was super fun!