Niskayuna, NY PRWEB June 19, 2009 — The Underground Café, a project of Utica Safe Schools Healthy Students is gearing up for the Annual Build-A-Bike Event, Saturday June 20, noon to 5 P.M. The event will be held downtown Utica across from City Hall parking lot. Registered youth will go home with a free, rebuilt bicycle. Registration begins at noon.

The personal injury law firm of Martin, Harding & Mazzotti, LLP is a Community Build-A-Bike partner and is donating 350 bike safety helmets for the event.

It’s a pleasure to partner with Utica Safe Schools Healthy Students to protect our community’s younger bike enthusiasts

We want to make sure the kids are out enjoying themselves this summer while taking every precaution to stay safe.

“It’s a pleasure to partner with Utica Safe Schools Healthy Students to protect our community’s younger bike enthusiasts,” said Paul B. Harding, Managing Partner of Martin, Harding & Mazzotti. Paul continued, “We want to make sure the kids are out enjoying themselves this summer while taking every precaution to stay safe.”

Last year the Build-A-Bike Event provided more than 150 bicycles to Utica youth, ages four to eighteen. This year the Build-A-Bike Event, in addition to giving away free bicycles, will provide workshop tips about how to fix and maintain bicycles, helmet decorating, give-a-ways, tours of The Underground Café, and a bike safety course.

UticaOD.com, News and Information for the Mohawk Valley recently ran an interesting and informative article on the Build-A-Bike event. Click here to read their article.

The public is asked to consider donating broken, used or new bicycles, bike parts, bike tools, and/or volunteering on the day of the event.

Other community partners include the Utica Police Department and Gilroy Kernan & Gilroy, Insurance.

For more information please contact Melissa Keihle, 315 368-6045, mkeihle at uticaschools dot org. The Utica Safe Schools Healthy Students Partnership, Inc.and the The Underground Café Teen Center is located at 1115 Mohawk Street, Utica, New York 13501.

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