By Ronald Sitton

MONTICELLO (Sept. 28) - The Wandering Weevil Wheels continue to gain momentum.

Of the 10 bicycles donated to the University of Arkansas at Monticello, six came from the city of Monticello and four were provided by UAM faculty and staff. Student Activities provided a room (Jeter 104) to house and work on the bicycles, and the Student Activities Board approved a $250 purchase of tools.

Gary Marshall, Buck DeFee, Shannon Stivison and I keep pushing the project forward on campus. Mars sent out a call for campus organizations and individuals to adopt a bike, which means volunteering to help fix-up and paint the bike in distinctive Weevil colors. If you or your organization wants to volunteer to help fix-up tune-up or LEARN to fix and tune bikes, e-mail Buck at DeFee@uamont.edu.

Lt. Eddy Deaton of the Monticello Police Department and Michael Ford, editor-in-chief of The Voice, helped unload the bicycles into our new digs while Orkhan Rzayev took the pictures below. I sent a picture from the unloading and the previous blog item to Beverly at the Advance-Monticellonian. I think she will have an article in next week's issue.

Janelle Martin sent in a link to edocuments.com, which notes bicycle riding can turn the lemons of high gas prices into lemonade. When Campus Police officer Mike May spoke to my journalism class, he mentioned the Wandering Weevil Wheels as an example of something good happening on campus.

Photo by Orkhan Rzayev

Unloading - Monticello Police Lt. Eddy Deaton (right) helps Ronald Sitton, UAM assistant professor of journalism, unload bicycles to be used for the Wandering Weevil Wheels program. The Monticello Police Department donated six of the 15 bicycles, with other donations from faculty and staff.

Photo by Orkhan Rzayev

Home - The Wandering Weevil Wheels now reside in Jeter 104, where students and organizations will fix up and paint the bicycles before they're released to the campus.