Nick was amongst friends and fellow riders, and help was close, but not everybody is that lucky. So I think a rider ID program, maybe administered through SWIMBA, another organiztion, or just by the riding/mtbr community, in Nick's honor, is fitting. Tied in with the ID card, SWIMBA might assist in donations to the Raganit family by adding having their webmaster add in a field in their online and printed sign up/renewal forms where new/renewing members can have the opton to contribute an extra amount to Nick's memorial fund if they choose. (SWIMBA would transfer any contributions to the existing US Bank memorial fund or directly to Nick's family).
Can someone from SWIMBA please step up and either approve this now, if possible, get this on the agenda for board vote at the next meeting, or let us know if it cannot be done through that organization? Maybe I can come up with free printing and lamination for these. I've gotten free stuff before for Blue Cross of Idaho's Blue Cruise - Wheels for Wellness. I'll probably ask Brett, our resident graphics professional if he has the time to take my crappy Photoshop attempt and produce a cool design for printing and lamination. Brett, with due respect to your time man.
Harley or someone on board, can you rock this please? Please let me know. I'll be back on the board a week from next Tuesday. You can email me at my Yahoo account. I'll do any footwork required to help make it happen. Also, the other organization I am a member of, SHARE (www.sharemtb.com), has a similar card, in memory of a biker, and I've emailed them to see if they can provide assistance, etc to SWIMBA or any of us that can organize and make this happen. I'm thinking we might be able to piggyback on their stuff.
My awesome Photoshop skills, rough idea for the front and back of a card:
Front - ID & Medical Information.
Back - memorial text, SWIMBA's URL (needs to be centered), would go on if they sponsor this. Design: Some cool blend of green and browns, maybe or better yet, Yeti orange! SWIMBA logo might go on there - maybe as a background watermark or printed vertically on one end? I'm sure that Brett can rock this into something awesome looking!
If the place exists, Nick is there for sure, grinning wide on flowing singletrack.
Can someone from SWIMBA please step up and either approve this now, if possible, get this on the agenda for board vote at the next meeting, or let us know if it cannot be done through that organization? Maybe I can come up with free printing and lamination for these. I've gotten free stuff before for Blue Cross of Idaho's Blue Cruise - Wheels for Wellness. I'll probably ask Brett, our resident graphics professional if he has the time to take my crappy Photoshop attempt and produce a cool design for printing and lamination. Brett, with due respect to your time man.
Harley or someone on board, can you rock this please? Please let me know. I'll be back on the board a week from next Tuesday. You can email me at my Yahoo account. I'll do any footwork required to help make it happen. Also, the other organization I am a member of, SHARE (www.sharemtb.com), has a similar card, in memory of a biker, and I've emailed them to see if they can provide assistance, etc to SWIMBA or any of us that can organize and make this happen. I'm thinking we might be able to piggyback on their stuff.
My awesome Photoshop skills, rough idea for the front and back of a card:
Front - ID & Medical Information.
Back - memorial text, SWIMBA's URL (needs to be centered), would go on if they sponsor this. Design: Some cool blend of green and browns, maybe or better yet, Yeti orange! SWIMBA logo might go on there - maybe as a background watermark or printed vertically on one end? I'm sure that Brett can rock this into something awesome looking!
If the place exists, Nick is there for sure, grinning wide on flowing singletrack.