Cyndy Cole | AZ Daily Sun | January 25 2012
Donna and Jerry Creamer were volunteering at the Flagstaff Family Food Center in 2008 when they were struck by a repeated problem: Some of the unemployed couldn’t get to potential jobs offered at night and early morning.
Public buses didn’t run at all hours.
So Jerry found a couple of bikes at a local thrift store, bought them for $6 and $8, and gave them to a couple of local homeless men.
“They told a whole bunch of guys, who started asking: If they could find a bike, would Jerry fix it for them?” Donna said.
So began the Sunnyside Bike Shed, a charity operated by a retired truck mechanic and a retired pharmacy technician out of their Sunnyside apartment.