Get Involved

In addition to the SPCAs and Animal Shelters found on our Donate Locally page, we have several cycling clubs, lodging establishments and organizations that are involved. Although the list grows, here are some of the earlier groups:

Cycling Clubs:

West Chester Cycling Club – Based in West Chester, PA, this 500 member club has been a supporter of the Pedaling4Paws event since day one and each of the P4P founders are WCCC members. A large group is expected on Day 1, with some riding the entire first day.

Brandywine Bicycle Club – Based more broadly in Chester County, PA, the BBC are always invited and many WCCC members are also BBC members, so we'll certainly have participation from this club!

Berks County Bicycle Club  - Based out of the Reading, PA area, the BCBC are expected to join us for portions through Birdsboro and beyond. They are also expected at the Animal Rescue League of Berks County.

Southern Tier Bicycle Club - Based in the Binghamton to Cortland area, the STBC has had riders in the last 2 years. We hope to see many Southern Tier riders certainly from the NY/PA border up to at least Syracuse!

Finger Lake Cycling Club - Based in the Skaneateles, NY area, we're hoping to see some FLCC folks join us this year on either the end of Day 3 or the start of Day 4.

Onondaga Cycling Club – Based in and around the Syracuse area. Last year, one of their Board of Directors, Bill Goffe announced the ride on the clubs listserv, so hopefully we’ll catch up with a number of Onondaga riders this year too.If you are an OCC member, please join us!

Jefferson County Cycling Club - Based in the Watertown, NY area, we hope to see some JCCC riders. We think we spotted some last year, but they were headed in the opposite direction, so polite hello's were as far as we got.

Corporations:

Stillman Volvo  is on board with Pedaling4Paws and will be supporting the ride with vehicles at select points along the way.

Welch Allyn is hosting a breakfast on 6/25 at their headquarters.

Country Inn & Suites in Lehighton/Jim Thorpe and general manager Jennifer Lesher have been great

The Vacation Inn - in Union Dale, PA and owner Rocco Centonze were the first to come on board and helped with media in the area

Media:

The Daily Local in Chester County - In 2010, the Daily Local covered all 5 days of our trip using the blogs as a source of information and video of our departure from West Chester on their site in 2010. Articles were by reporter Dan Kristie.

6ABC - covered Pedaling4Paws in 2010 and had a brief segment in 2011.

TV 69, WFMZ covered Pedlaing4Paws in both 2010 and 2011. They sent a reporter and videographer to meet with us on Day 1 around 10:30AM at the Animal Rescue League of Berks County

The Reading Eagle Times covered Pedaling4Paws in 2010 on the Day 1 visit to the ARL of Berks County. The interview was by Jessica Bakeman.

The Times News, Carbon County's regional newspaper covered Pedaling4Paws in 2010 on Day 2 when we visited the Carbon County Friends of Animals in Jim Thorpe. Vincent Vella interviewed us.

BlueRidge 13 covered our visit to the CCFOA in both 2010 and 2011!

PennsPeak Radio and Casey Parker interview on "Afternoons with Casey Parker" at the end of Day 1 and Layne "The Doc" Roberts on "Office Party" with an on-road interview on Day 2. Interviews occured in both 2010 and 2011.

16-WNEP-TV (serving the Scranton area) had a brief piece about Pedaling4Paws in 2011.

Action News-12 WBNG will be covering us as we rolled through Binghamton, NY in both 2010 and 2011. The 2011 interview included founder Viktor Ohnjec holding a Chihuahua named Selena.

Skaneateles Journal typically covers our Day 4 visit to supporting company, Welch Allyn where we also meet with representatives from the Finger Lakes SPCA of CNY.

The Watertown Daily Times covered Pedaling4Paws in 2009 and 2010 with great articles.

Your News Now (YNN) covered the Pedaling4Paws visit to the Jefferson County SPCA on Day 5 in 2010.

The Journal from Ogdensburg, NY intereviewed Pedaling4Paws riders as we were already rolling in 2011 and published an article a day later. They also interviewed us and published a story in 2009.

Want to See Us on the Route? Here's Where we plan to be and when:

	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Breakfast	West Chester * Daily Local * ABC-6 * CCSPCA	Lehighton CCFOA Times News Channel 16 WNEP	Union Dale	Skaneateles *Finger Lakes SPCA Skaneateles Journal & Welch Allyn	Watertown *Jefferson County SPCA *Watertown Times * YNN
Break	Birdsboro * Animal Rescue League of Berks County * Reading Eagle * Channel 69	Albrightsville * PennsPeak Radio	Binghamton * Humane Society of Binghamton WBGN	Phoenix (north of Syracuse)	Hammond
Lunch	Topton The Market Cafe	Moscow The Cabin Cafe	Whitney Point Country Kitchen	Mexico Cam's Pizza	Ogdensburg * St. Lawrence Valley SPCA *The Journal
Break	Pleasant Corners	Carbondale	Marathon Cortland *Cortland SPCA	Adams	N/A
Dinner	Lehighton Roadies, Penns Peak	Union Dale Tedeschi's Restaurant (Hallstead, PA)	Skaneateles  Dinner: Daniel's Grill	Watertown The Tilted Kilt	Skaneateles Doug's Fish Fry
Lodging	Lehighton * Country Inn & Suites * PennsPeak Radio	Union Dale: * Vacation Inn	Skaneateles / Marcellus *Friend's house	Watertown * Best Western	Marcellus *Friend's house

 

 

Related resources

• Anyone can join in the ride, although we do have a schedule to keep, so if you ride faster than us, we'll meet you when you stop and if you ride slower than us, we'll say hello and ride with you for a while!
• We post our route so you can meet up with us at various point. Even if you don't ride, please say hello if you see us!
• Want to join us for lunch, look at our route and we'll be happy to chat with you as we eat!

Viktor, Mike, Gary, Ed, & Doug with the Stillman Volvo

The Stillman Volvo XC-60 with Steve P!

The Vacation Inn - Day 2 Oasis

Vacation Inn Owner Rocco supports P4P!!

Welch Allyn supports P4P!!

In Ogdensburg approaching Bridge to Canada

Rolling up a hill...