{"id":1586,"date":"2012-12-20T00:28:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T00:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2013-01-08T00:46:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T00:46:15","slug":"volunteer-spotlight-rebecca-slivka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wabikes.org\/index.php\/2012\/12\/20\/volunteer-spotlight-rebecca-slivka\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer Spotlight:  Rebecca Slivka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/slivka.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1587\" title=\"Rebecca Slivka\" src=\"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/slivka-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wabikes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/slivka-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/wabikes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/slivka.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>After six years of volunteer service as the Bicycle Alliance\u2019s webmaster, Rebecca Slivka is taking a well earned and much deserved break.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca created the original Safe Routes to School WA site in 2005, then agreed to manage the Bicycle Alliance site in 2006.\u00a0 The content was sparse back then and she was eager to work with staff to build a site that was interesting and useful to bicyclists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst I expanded the sections on commuting, legislation and resources.\u00a0 Later, I created online forms for membership, auction donations and auction ticket purchases,\u201d Rebecca recalled.\u00a0 \u201cCreating the online forms for membership and the auction were probably the most productive changes,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca\u2019s involvement with the Bicycle Alliance goes beyond her website contribution.\u00a0 She helped gather the signatures that resulted in legislative approval for the <a title=\"License Plates\" href=\"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/support-us\/license-plates\/\">Share the Road license plate<\/a>.\u00a0 Her first Share the Road plate was BK00023, but she has since traded that plate in for a personalized one that proclaims her zeal for Scrabble:\u00a0 -TSNIEA (Fellow Scrabble lovers will recognize this as the best rack you can have in the game).<\/p>\n<p>Her other volunteer contributions include serving as a Bike Buddy mentor, participating in early Bicycle Committee meetings with Sound Transit to ensure bike access on Sounder and Link light rail trains, and helping with the auction.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s on the horizon for Rebecca?\u00a0 Besides pursuing her love of Scrabble with the Seattle club, she is contemplating revisions to her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bicyclewatchdog.org\">Bicycle Watchdog<\/a> website.\u00a0 No grass is growing under this bike adovate\u2019s feet.\u00a0 Thanks, Rebecca!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After six years of volunteer service as the Bicycle Alliance\u2019s webmaster, Rebecca Slivka is taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[38,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-volunteer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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