Excellent video captured by Bill Gibbons of PA FACE. 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek cyclists recognized at the DC Festival 2008. For updates on the Equal Parenting Bike Trek please visit Cycling4Children.com. Congrats to all four cyclists!
Video coming soon compliments of Bill Gibbons - Thank you.
Congrats again to all four cyclists! For more Equal Parenting Bike Trek videos please visit the Cycling4Children.com Video Page.
We received an update from Bill Knoellner today:
Yesterday Bill Knoellner was told that he had second degree burns and was treated for this. He is still in pain but refuses to quit.
Brian Downs, a Michigan Judicial Candidate, had his bicycle wheel (rim) destroyed. He is ok and they are in the process of looking for a replacement wheel.
Bill stated on the phone message that spirits are high and they are refusing to quit, but that the hills in Pennsylvania are "kicking their butt".
Congrats to all of the cyclists for their determination to make it to the DC Festival 2008. All should attend this event JUST to welcome these equal parenting heroes
Congrats to both Bill Foster and Scott Hudson. Scott Hudson, who supports Michigan House Bill 4564, is running for State Representative. Please make donations for candidates who support equal parenting such as Scott Hudson and Brian Downs!
Please be sure to attend the DC Festival 2008.
Visit Cycling4Children.com for more updates on the Equal Parenting Bike Trek.
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Bill Knoellner, one of the Equal Parenting Bike Trek cyclists makes the Bucks County Courier Times out of Pennsylvania! I had the pleasure of helping Bill Knoeller before the bike trek started by picking him up the evening before at the Greyhound Bus station, eating dinner with my family and dropping him off for the start of this event. Excellent job by Bill Knoellner and we hope that he felt at home during his stay with our family. Robert Pedersen
Read article below.
Please be sure to attend the DC Festival 2008.
Visit Cycling4Children.com for more updates on the Equal Parenting Bike Trek.
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Bill Knoeller pictured with 2007 EPBT Cyclist Robert Pedersen.
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Press Release
August 6th 2008
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Minister Ronald Smith
616-301-2325
or
Robert Pedersen
269-420-4688
Grand Rapids, Michigan August 6, 2008 - Brian Downs, a Kent County attorney and candidate for Judge in the Kent County 17th Circuit Court in the November election is riding his bicycle 758 miles from the Capitol in Lansing to the nation's Capitol in Washington DC. Downs along with 3 other riders are signaling a message that Family Courts throughout the nation are not family friendly. The Equal Parenting Bike Trek has been organized to bring attention to what he believes should be reform in the nations court system.
Brian Downs, who has been a family advocate for the past 7 years, believes that it is the duty of our nation to protect the parent child relationship and repair this relationship when necessary so that children maintain a loving relationship with their entire biological family. Downs believes that the nation's family court system does more splitting up of families than protecting and maintaining this most important and primary relationship.
Minister Ronald Smith, CEO of Children Need Both Parents, Inc, a non-profit group located in both Chicago and Grand Rapids stated, "Our family court judges pay little attention to the damage being done to our children removing one or both biological parents from a child's life without making a concerted effort that no stone is left unturned to repair and maintain this God Given relationship."
Downs is scheduled to leave Lansing at 2:00pm EST August 7th and scheduled to arrive at the Family Preservation Festival in DC on August 15-16.
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For Interviews Contact:
Minister Ronald Smith
Tel: 616-301-2325
Cell: 616-874-8662
Email: childrenneedbothparents@msn.com
or
Robert Pedersen
Tel: 269-420-4688
Please join us tonight at 8PM EST on the popular talkshow "Get Off The Bench". What is this talkshow about? Listen to this:
Call in or listen on your computer tonight as host Lary Holland interviews Equal Parenting Bike Trek Cyclist Robert Pedersen.
Call into the talkshow today at 8PM : 724-444-7444 TALKCAST ID: 43507
Or listen on your computer by getting a talkshoe account.
Be sure to also check out Lary Holland's Family Court Reports.
View the always updating list of media and new media coverage of the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek.
Beyond Incredible! Equal Parenting Cyclist, Co-founder of A Child's Right, DaddyBlogger and Detroit News featured fatherhood blogger Robert Pedersen made the FRONT PAGE of the Detroit News. This front page story with color photo was done by reporter Kim Kozlowski of the Detroit News. This is Michigan's largest newspaper in the state of Michigan with overlapping coverage in Indiana and Ohio. Circulation total is well over 300,000!
The article online also reached such popular demand that Detroit News placed in on their homepage and added additional online resources to the story. They also linked to Robert Pedersen's blog with the Detroit News - he is one of their featured fatherhood bloggers.
The article by reporter Kim Kozlowski is still, after 24 hours in their most popular section on the homepage of the Detroit News. With this success of this article Detroit News also conducted an online survey which is overwhelmingly in favor of shared parenting.
Be sure to comment on the article and vote in their online poll. Also be sure to visit Robert Pedersen's blog with the Detroit News and comment on his four articles with many more to come.
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Today Robert Pedersen was also on the Mitch Albom Show which is nationally syndicated and has a massive audience in the state of Michigan. Not only does Mitch have a popular radio show, but he is also author of many books such as Tuesdays with Morrie and is a frequent guest on shows like Oprah and more.
Prior to the Mitch Albom show Robert interviewed on the Dave Jaconette Show out of Kalamazoo. Robert seemed very impressed with Jaconette's interviewing style. We are hoping to get recordings of the interviews.
A very interesting process. An Associated Press (AP) Photographer took a couple hundred pictures of Robert Pedersen training for the 758 mile Equal Parenting Bike Trek from Lansing MI to Washington D.C. This happened very early in the morning today. We were told that other newspapers and media organizations can buy these photos from AP to utilize in their stories. We did confirm that some of these pictures will be used by THE largest newspaper in the state of Michigan - their total circulation is over 300,000!!! We will let you know when this will be published. Stay tuned!
Please visit Robert Pedersen's articles on the Detroit News. He is now a featured fatherhood blogger. Please be sure to visit often as new articles will appear frequently.
Bio and article index on Detroit News.
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