Chairman's View
By Harry Havnoonian

It has been said by some wise person (no-not me!) that it takes five years to become an overnight success. Bike 4 Sight seems to be ahead of schedule. The 4th annual 2006 event was bigger and better than ever and exceeded my wildest fund raising goals. I owe a debt of gratitude to everyone who helped. Thanks go to Anne McFadden from Sovereign Bank our title sponsor, Comcast our media sponsor, Winterthur Museum and Country Estate for providing miles of the most beautiful scenery of any ride in the country, Trader Joe’s for supplying healthy foods for all the rest stops, all the wonderful volunteers who had something else to do but gave up their Sunday to help, the Media Business Authority for streamlining the process of putting on an event in Media, the Fabulous 49ers for live music, and to all the sponsors who believe in the cause. The biggest thank you goes out to you, the rider/fund raiser. Individual fund raising hit an all time high. Why is this so important? The mission of the Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired is to rehabilitate and teach blind and visually impaired individuals to live productively and independently within their communities. This takes money. Bike 4 Sight raised over $28,000.00 this year with proceeds going directly to services for the blind and visually impaired. I invite you to go to www.cbvi.net and check out the programs you help support. The 5th annual Bike 4 Sight ride will be held on June 3, 2007, preceded by our pre-ride kick off party on May 3rd. Please save the dates. For those of you who were not part of the 200+ crowd at the 2006 pre-ride party, you missed an exciting event. Apart from excellent food and beverages, we had live music and a bicycle clothing fashion show/auction where we literally auctioned the clothes off the models’ backs!

Once again I would like to thank you and I’ll see you at Bike 4 Sight 2007.

Thanks again—-you make me proud

Bike 4 Sight Chairperson, Harry Havnoonian, played master - of ceremonies at the after-ride.