Darell C. Provencher
Greetings Track Racers,
I got a call back today from Drew Carney at KGW 8 re: coverage of the third
annual Eric Kautzky Memorial Track Race. As part of KGW's morning news
show, he hosts the Out and About feature between 5-7 am every weekday
morning. I do get to see his early am reports when I'm getting ready for
work. Always entertaining! Drew would like to do several live spots from
Alpenrose Velodrome this coming Thurs, May 1, betwen 5 am and 7 am. We did
the same thing with Drew 2 yrs ago and it was a lot of fun. Plus Drew, with
a little coaching from other brother Drew Nelson, was actually able to ride
a lap on the track!
If you are able to come out early Thursday morning to ride the track for
this KGW coverage, that would be awesome. Last time we had about 20 riders
come out and play.
So if you can, please reply back asap, and let me know when you could come
out and ride. KGW is planning to be at Alpenrose by 4:30 am to set up. We
could definitely use riders on the track at 5am. If you can come out and
ride for at least 1/2 hour that would work, as long as we can get people
riding the track more or less continuously for about 2 hours (with off-air
gaps of course).
Weather outlook for this Thurs is still a bit iffy, but Drew is willing to
give it a try if the forecast continues to improve. He will get back to me
with a go/no go in the next day or two.
So let me know asap if you can do it!
Thanks!
Darell Provencher
Team Rose City
503-984-2837 (cell)
River City Bicycles and Team Rose City are proud to be hosting the third
annual Eric Kautzky Memorial Track Race on May 3, 2008. Team Rose City will
honor Eric at the giving our net proceeds to the Eric Kautzky Memorial
Scholarship Fund at Tigard High School. Eric was a science teacher and a
well-known athletic trainer at Tigard High School for 24 years. He was also
a Team Rose City team mate that lost his life tragically on Saturday, June
18, 2005, while out on an early morning training ride on Tualatin-Sherwood
Road. The accused 19-yr old motorist was found guilty and sentenced to 17
months in prison for negligent homicide. Eric was 56.
KGW Channel 8 also produced a special report on Eric's untimely death,
which can be seen at the link below.
http://www.kgw.com/news/specialreports/stories//kgw
_110306_specials_dead_tired.1010c5c.html
For the event flyer and other links, please see
http://www.obra.org/track/flyers/2008/eric_kautzky_track_race.html
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