STP Volunteer News
Richard Rosenberg has volunteered to be the STP Finish Line Coordinator for the Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic the weekend of JULY 12-13. The Seattle to Portland (STP) is the Pacific Northwest’s largest multi-day bicycling event and our club manages the Finish Line at Holladay Park, providing a significant source of revenue for our club. Portland Bicycling Club will once again join with Cascade Bicycle Club of Seattle to manage the Finish Line in Portland for an anticipated 5,000 cyclists. Richard will bring energy and organizational talents to our leadership team. Thank you, Richard!
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VOLUNTEERING
Route-marking volunteers install and remove all course signage from the Longview Bridge to the Finish Line. We restrict traffic around Holladay Park and place all the required signs alerting the public of these closures.
Where do the signs come from? PBC’s storage unit. A team leader and a couple of volunteers are needed for storage unit and supplies to drive a rental truck, go to the storage unit, pick up supplies on Friday and return them on Monday.
Safety is where the action is! If you want to see all the riders coming in, sign up for safety. You will stand either on NE Multnomah Street & NE 11th Avenue, providing secondary signaling to participants and spectators to keep everyone out of harm’s way, or along the finish line chute. We make sure riders cross the finish line safely and enjoy the finish-line festivities.
PBC volunteers welcome all finishers to Portland with our emcees cheering their arrival. We unload and organize riders’ baggage by number, and help riders find and retrieve their belongings. We set up and staff the secure bike corral.
Transportation is another service the club provides. How do riders get from Portland to Seattle? We help board riders onto buses and load bicycles, safely blanketed, onto trucks. All spots have been filled already this year for truck drivers and copilots volunteering for Portland riders who go up on Friday to ride the STP; however, there is still one vacancy for a passenger/bike assistant. Or volunteer for return transportation for Seattle riders going home after the ride on Saturday, Sunday, or Monday.
We answer all sorts of questions at the information booth for riders, spectators, local residents, and – new this year because the volunteer booth is being combined with the information booth – volunteers. This is where all our volunteers will check in before their shift, get a T-shirt (if they haven’t already), a nametag, a meal voucher, and final instructions.
If there is something to be done, you can bet a PBC volunteer will be doing it – and your club thanks you!
PERKS
All volunteers for STP will receive a colorful T-shirt to identify them as volunteers as well as a food voucher to redeem at one of the many food vendors in the park.
There will be a traditional pizza party on Monday, July 7, for volunteers to meet their team leaders and pick up their T-shirts.
SIGNING UP
SignUpGenius is up and running! Be sure to sign up early to get your favorite volunteer spot and time! Signing up online is available at SignUpGenius. It is organized by columns, starting on the left. Everything that occurs on Friday is listed first. Then, it’s sorted by location, in alphabetical order. Once you find the day you want, then look for the time slot, the third column, as you scroll down in search of the ideal position. There are still two vacant leadership positions (look for ALL CAPS).
Let me know if you have questions about navigating SignUpGenius. I can also sign you up, if you prefer. For more information, contact me at [email protected].
Lynn Blanchard, STP Volunteer Coordinator