October is Disability Awareness Month

Read all about it:

http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=resources.media.press.view&news_id=1380

Oct 24th, Environmental Traveling Companion (ETC) Regatta

October 18th, ACT Games 2008

October 13th-16th, Eastern Connecticut State University

Davis Enterprise article

Oct 4th, BORP Revolution 2008

The Bay area Outreach and Recreation Program is a Berkeley-based organization that focuses on outdoor activities for individuals with disabilities. Each year BORP holds a fundraising bike ride in the wine growing region of Sonoma, near to California's Napa Valley. You can read more about this great event at BORP's website, http://www.borp.org/revolution/index.htm

I've had lots of fun with BORP riding hand-cycles in the past, but this year I was invited to help cheer the riders along, a role I accepted with great pleasure. Riders both with and without disabilities took part in the event, which included entries for everything from a 100k ride down to a 10k ride. 2008 Paralympic silver-medal hand-cycle champion Alejandro Albor and several other hand cyclists took-on the century along with many friends and supporters who helped make this fund-raising event a great success.

I helped many of the 10k hand-cyclists get ready for their ride at a beautiful spot in Graton, CA - this site was also about the half-way point for the 100k riders who came through after the 10k riders had set out. I've captured part of the adventure below:

Getting Ready for the 10k Ride:

These kids rock!

Here are some of the 100k Riders stopping in:

There were many beautiful sites along the way, and other amazing people to meet at the finish:

Come participate in this great and fun event next year on the last Saturday of September.

Sep 20th, U.C. Berkeley's Division for Equity and Inclusion in Education, Open House

Gibor Basri, UC Berkeley vice chancellor for equity and inclusion (center) and Berkeley student.

U.C. Berkeley faculty and students.