Adult-sized bikes that were restored Friday as part of Notre Dame’s Make It Matter Day 2016 were picked up today by the Catholic Community Response Team out of Pontiac.
CCRT takes the bikes that are restored through its ongoing bike drive and distributes them to clients who use them for transportation to and from their jobs and/or to and from bus stops as needed.
On Make It Matter Day 2016, upper division students work on cleaning, fixing and restoring bikes for the Catholic Community Response Team’s ongoing bike drive.
According to John Smith, a social studies teacher in Notre Dame’s upper division, children’s bikes that NDP students also cleaned up and restored last Friday will be picked up next week and distributed to children who otherwise would likely never own one of their own.
Smith, along with fellow social studies teacher Brian Perry and math teacher Mark McCaskey, coordinated the NDP students work on all of the bikes during Make It Matter Day.
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The Catholic Community Response Team was founded in 2004 by the Pontiac Area Vicariate to provide direct referral and support services to those with crisis needs. They also work to build a permanent bridge between two populations who live in close proximity, but whose life experiences are worlds apart: those in crisis with urgent, unmet needs (primarily in the Pontiac area), and volunteers wanting to live out their faith through the works of charity and justice.
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About Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy
Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy is a private, Catholic, independent, coeducational day school located in Oakland County. The school's upper division enrolls students in grades nine through twelve and has been named one of the nation's best 50 Catholic high schools (Acton Institute) four times since 2005. Notre Dame's middle and lower divisions enroll students in jr. kindergarten through grade eight. All three divisions are International Baccalaureate "World Schools." NDPMA is conducted by the Marist Fathers and Brothers and is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States and the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement. For more on Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy, visit the school's home page at www.ndpma.org.