SACG Raffles Sweet Schwinn Bike

At the beginning of the month, the Stoddart Avenue Community Garden won a bicycle.  Not just any bike: A sweet looking, brand new, flat black with red accents and cup holder, Schwinn Signature Series Obit MX bicycle.    It was donated to the Greater Columbus Growing Coalition by Strader’s Garden Centers (which also has sold bicycles for a long time at its Riverside Drive location).    And now, we are giving YOU the opportunity to buy a $1 raffle ticket for a chance to win this sweet ride.

The raffle will be held at noon on Saturday, April 14, 2018 at the SACG.  Not so coincidentally, this is also when the SACG will be holding its annual Earth Day work celebration.  So, you can come and help us that morning plant vegetables in our food pantry plots and neighbor beds, maybe plant some fruit trees and to pick up litter in our neighborhood and leave with an Earth Day friendly mode of transportation.  Or not.  You need not be present to win, but you must take the bike by April 30 if you win or it will be given to the next ticket drawn.

Did I mention that the bike is brand new?  You will be getting it as we received it (although we will pump up the tires for you). 

This would be a perfect gift for the young-ones in your life – or the young at heart.  If you already have all of the bikes you need, we will not stop you from donating it to the bicycle library of Urban Connections, our good faith-based neighbor which keeps a supply of bicycles on hand for the neighborhood kids to borrow.  Or, if you prefer, we could give it to a deserving neighborhood or gardening child who writes a convincing essay about why he or she should receive the bike.   

Proceeds from the raffle will benefit the Stoddart Avenue Community Garden, which is a 501(c)(3) public charity located on the near east side of Columbus, just a half-mile west of Bexley.  We provide inexpensive garden plots where anyone in Central Ohio may grow their own fruits, herbs and vegetables.  To date, we have donated over 4300 pounds of fresh produce to area food pantries and Faith Mission’s Homeless Shelter. We also grow strawberries, raspberries, cherries and peaches that our gardeners and anyone in our urban neighborhood may help themselves to for free. We also keep a Free Little Library stocked.   We are always looking for volunteers to help maintain the SACG, so you should feel free to stop by any Saturday morning when the mood hits you.  Many hands make light work!

Contact the Garden Manager or any member of the SACG Board if you would like to buy some tickets.