Show up on September 12.
Your $40 entry is already part of the handoff. You have to eat dinner anyway. The catered meal is included. You would spend more at a bad restaurant.
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Ten games. One bike shop.
Playing for more than the trophy
Ten games. One bike shop.
A room full of second chances.
Every entry to Skipper Bob Euchre Classic at Missing Falls Brewery rolls straight into a real bike shop about two miles away, where fathers build bikes for their children, young adults step into confidence, and returning citizens ride to work on wheels somebody bothered to fix. You will spend Saturday night playing euchre. Somebody else will spend Monday morning getting to a job because you did.
Who you are helping · verbatim from the shop
The people already on the other side of your entry fee.
These are not fundraising slogans. They are the four things South Street Ministries actually says happens at their Bike Shop, in the exact words they use. Read them once, slowly.
- Fathers
- build bikes for their children.
- Young adults
- step into confidence.
- Returning citizens
- ride to employment.
- Families
- ride together.
None of that happens without a working shop, a working chain, a working wrench in a working hand. All of which cost money. All of which are the reason we're playing cards.
The ask · pick one, pick two, pick all four
Nobody at this brewery is going to shame you.
The dad without a bike for his kid, on the other hand.
Look — you don't have to do all of these. You have to do at least one. That is the difference between a room having a nice time and a room actually being useful. We'd like this room to be both.
Round up your tab at the bar.
Every drink you buy at Missing Falls Brewery can be rounded up. Ask the bar. Ten dollars becomes twelve. Twelve becomes fifteen. Fifteen becomes a new tube on a bike that gets somebody to their probation appointment.
Give the Bike Shop money directly.
If you cannot come, or if you can and want to do more than come — go to the shop's own donation page and send them what a night of euchre would have cost you. Or twice that. It is easier to buy a bike than to explain to a child why they don't have one.
southstreetministries.org/bike-shop ↗Bring the bike that is rusting in your garage.
You have one. You know you have one. Drop it at 798 Grant Street, Akron. Chris and the shop will take it from there. Everything they can save, they save. Everything they cannot, they part out to save the next one.
Email Chris before you drop it →Who they are · the shop, not the pitch
South Street Ministries is not a slogan on a T-shirt.
The Bike Shop runs out of 9 Plato Lane, Monday and Wednesday evenings, six to eight, summer months. It shows up at the Summit Lake Farmers Market on Tuesday afternoons. It shows up on Kenmore Boulevard on First Fridays. It takes donated bikes at 798 Grant Street year-round. The people who run it teach maintenance, repair, and rider safety to whoever walks in, and then hand them the wheels to go somewhere.
Their own words for what they do: “The restoration of oneself, community, economy, faith and relationships is invaluable.” Bikes are the excuse. The restoration is the point.
The tournament is in Akron. The shop is in Akron. The kid who does not have a bike is in Akron. You do not have to squint to see the connection.
Live · updates in the room during the tournament
Where we are versus where we said we'd be.
The number changes as entries land, as raffle tickets sell, as the bar rounds up. You can watch it move in the room on September 12. Right now it looks like this:
Charity handoff so far
$0
0% of the $3,000 target. When we hit the goal, we don't stop; we keep going.
One more thing, and then we're done bothering you
The next time you drive past a kid on a bad bike, you get to remember what you did about it.
Or what you didn't. That's the only real reason we wrote this whole page. We could have said “please donate.” Instead we told you the truth: this is Akron helping Akron, with a beer and a card table in the middle. The room will happen either way. The bike shop will run either way. The only variable is how much of your Saturday night you turn into somebody else's Monday morning.
Pick at least one thing. Preferably today.