How is this for "tween" for you?

I have been reading about the The Emmaus Cycle for Shelter on line for a few days now. Because it's a Cycling event, I never associated it specifically with the homeless shelter that we have here in town. In fact, we have MANY (no, not "some" or "a few": MANY) homeless shelters here in town. This is NOT a cycling kind of town. It's a "twwen" space. Its "tween" a place where people cycle for transportation, like a "real" city and a place where people cycle for recreation, like a real suburb. I just assumed that Emmaus was an organization much larger than the one facility that we have here in town. I was wrong. 


So, this is a charity ride to support, solely, a homeless shelter in Haverhill MA. The Irony of this, of course, is that NONE of the loops are actually IN Haverhill, much less go anywhere NEAR the shelter, or it's environs. Yes, it does start in Haverhill, (in one of the nicest sections of town) but it make a beeline out of town for some of the "nicer" communities surrounding Haverhill.


I would like to urge all of you to NOT ride this ride or contribute in any way to this, or any other Charity based out of Haverhill or for the benefit of any individual reside in IN Haverhill. It is only by your staunch and unwavering inaction that we can make Haverhill an inhospitable place for the lowest classes of people and make it into the kind of community that charity bike rides DO go through!