We Will Miss Our Castro Valley Community
To our Castro Valley community:
In two weeks, Ari Huitzilopochtli and I are moving to Guanajuato, Mexico to help Ari's parents with Casa Zuniga, the family bed and breakfast. We are looking forward to this next chapter in our lives, but we will also miss our Castro Valley community. You supported us through 10 years of Castro Valley Pride, each year getting bigger and better. CV Pride is still going strong under the capable guidance of Austin Bruckner, Derek Ko and others, please continue to help them uplift and affirm your LGBTQ friends and neighbors. You also supported Bad Business Model Bikes since its inception, helping to provide 800 bicycles to riders who otherwise would not have a bike, including 90 quality road bikes to AIDS/Lifecycle participants. The majority of those bikes came from you, the generous members of this community, with special recognition to Chris Padavana and his team at Eden Bicycles, Cyclepath on Foothill in Hayward, as well as the Trek shops in Dublin, Livermore and CV. Thank you all so much. I also need to thank Michael Singer and the folks at the Forum, as well as Roberto Souza of CV News for giving us all a voice, even when we disagree. I am a secular humanist, and I believe in the power of people helping other people. No gods or goddesses are required, we just help each other. To paraphrase Barack Obama who was paraphrasing Martin Luther King: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. But here's the thing: it does not bend on its own. It bends because each of us, in our own way, put our hands on that arc and we BEND it in the direction of justice." Be kind to each other and keep pushing on that arc.
–Billy Bradford & Ari Huitzilopochtli
Casa Zuniga, Guanajuato, MX
