{"id":294,"date":"2015-08-15T21:15:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T02:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/?p=294"},"modified":"2015-08-15T21:29:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T02:29:58","slug":"sunday-at-the-track-weekend-news-and-the-fundraising-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"Sunday at the Track, Weekend News and the Fundraising Trail."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2502_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-296\" src=\"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2502_2-300x66.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2502_2\" width=\"1077\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2502_2-300x66.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2502_2-1024x224.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1077px) 100vw, 1077px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The South Chicago Velodrome saw numerous new friends show up to help clean and repair the track today.<\/p>\n<p>As seen in the photo cropping above- we&#8217;re washing the track (new-looking surface near orange buckets) and it&#8217;s looking great. Not all of the maintenance requires being comfortable with power tools or complex procedures. \u00a0In the end- we can all sit around the grill and share a meal together.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which- tomorrow, Sunday Aug. 16th, Tim and Mike will be at the track again (87th St. a couple blocks West of the Lake Front Path). \u00a0You&#8217;re invited to stop by any time and we&#8217;ll have the gate open 10am-4pm. \u00a0If we have enough helpers commit, we&#8217;ll bring food for the grill- please notify info@chicagovelodrome.com&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Our Junior Mechanics program runs Sunday 12-3 as well, all youth 13-18 are invited to participate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, our funding needs continue. \u00a0Even though we don&#8217;t have 100% functionality to the velodrome yet, we&#8217;re working hard to realize this facility\u00a0for the greater community. \u00a0We&#8217;ve paid about 1\/3 of the track&#8217;s cost and we&#8217;re trying to raise\u00a0enough to make the fourth payment. \u00a0Please consider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/SoChgoVelodrome\">contributing a little here<\/a> toward this month&#8217;s nut today; every amount is appreciated and your gift can be credited toward track time if you\u00a0chose. \u00a0Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be having a fundraising-based meeting in a few days; please email info@chicagovelodrome.com for early details.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2502.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-295\" src=\"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2502-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2502\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2502-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2502-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2502.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-279\" src=\"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/junior-mechanics-flyer-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"junior-mechanics-flyer\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/junior-mechanics-flyer-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/junior-mechanics-flyer-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/junior-mechanics-flyer.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Chicago Velodrome saw numerous new friends show up to help clean and repair the track today. As seen in the photo cropping above- we&#8217;re washing the track (new-looking surface near orange buckets) and it&#8217;s looking great. Not all of the maintenance requires being comfortable with power tools or complex procedures. \u00a0In the end- we can all sit around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagovelodrome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}