<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /></head><body><div data-html-editor-font-wrapper="true" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I would love to help with this. This is an excellent idea. I am more for making cards for drivers and pizza...not a morning person.<br><br>Kristina<br><br>February 19, 2024 8:06 PM, "Katie Wilson" <<a target="_blank" tabindex="-1" href="mailto:katie@transitriders.org?to=%22Katie%20Wilson%22%20<katie@transitriders.org>">katie@transitriders.org</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;line-break: after-white-space">Pauline doesn’t have anything planned but is excited about the idea. I wonder if we could find a place to do a group cleanup that’s near a bus base where we’d encounter operators and could share donuts or something? I can also ask Sam, TRU member and former Metro driver, to see if he has any thoughts along those lines.<div></div><div><br><br> <blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 19, 2024, at 6:27 PM, Katie Wilson <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:katie@transitriders.org">katie@transitriders.org</a>> wrote:</div> <div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;line-break: after-white-space">I think that’s a great idea! I can ask her.<div></div><div> <blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 19, 2024, at 6:22 PM, Saunatina Sanchez <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:saunatina@gmail.com">saunatina@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div> <div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family: garamond,times new roman,serif;font-size: large">Do we want to ask Pauline if she's planning something and support her?</div><div style="font-family: garamond,times new roman,serif;font-size: large"></div><div style="font-family: garamond,times new roman,serif;font-size: large">S.</div></div> <div><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 6:02 PM Dave Schuldt <<a rel="external nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" tabindex="-1" href="mailto:dave.schuldt@me.com">dave.schuldt@me.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left: 1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left: 1ex"><div>Maybe we can just put something out our social media channels. That would be the easiest.<div> <div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word"><div style="font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none;white-space: normal;word-spacing: 0px">Dave Schuldt</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none;white-space: normal;word-spacing: 0px"></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-weight: normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none;white-space: normal;word-spacing: 0px"></div></div></div><div> <blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 12, 2024, at 11:08 AM, Jo Claxton <<a target="_blank" rel="external nofollow noopener noreferrer" tabindex="-1" href="mailto:msjoclaxton@gmail.com">msjoclaxton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div> <div><div dir="ltr">Anyone have thoughts or ideas on this?<div>Let me know and we can get a plan together this week.</div><div></div></div> <div><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Feb 7, 2024 at 2:02 PM Jo Claxton <<a target="_blank" rel="external nofollow noopener noreferrer" tabindex="-1" href="mailto:msjoclaxton@gmail.com">msjoclaxton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left: 1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left: 1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi BATs,<div dir="auto"></div><div>I wanted to bring this up before our meeting later in the month to get a jump on it. (FYI - I'm going to be away for the first half of March, returning on March 13)</div><div></div><div>What would we like to do for Transit Operator Appreciation Day? It's on March 18th (a Monday) and I believe the week leading up to it is Appreciation Week.</div><div></div><div>Here are some thoughts to start, but would love to hear your ideas!</div><div></div><div>--in 2022 TRU arranged to invite some drivers and mechanics to meet outside near the central base and there was free coffee and donuts and a big hand made card with TRU members' individual messages written on the card.</div><div>-- maybe we could do the same or something similar to that but host at a coffee shop/pizza place nearby in Sodo or Georgetown? Provide some free pizza for transit operators?</div><div></div><div>-- or printing Thankyou cards from TRU (and maybe even joint effort with Seattle Greenways?) and seeing if we can get members from TRU and Greenways to give the cards to bus drivers during the week before and the day of.</div><div></div><div>Let me know your thoughts on any of these ideas or others you might have. It would be great to have something figured by next week (2/14) to begin planning.</div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Jo</div><div><a target="_blank" rel="external nofollow noopener noreferrer" tabindex="-1" href="https://nationaltoday.com/transit-driver-appreciation-day/#faqs">https://nationaltoday.com/transit-driver-appreciation-day/#faqs</a></div><div></div></div></blockquote></div>_______________________________________________<br>Transit mailing list<br><a target="_blank" rel="external nofollow noopener noreferrer" tabindex="-1" href="mailto:Transit@transitriders.org">Transit@transitriders.org</a><br><a target="_blank" rel="external nofollow noopener noreferrer" tabindex="-1" href="http://lists.transitriders.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/transit">http://lists.transitriders.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/transit</a></div></blockquote></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Transit mailing list<br><a target="_blank" rel="external nofollow noopener noreferrer" tabindex="-1" href="mailto:Transit@transitriders.org">Transit@transitriders.org</a><br><a rel="external nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" tabindex="-1" href="http://lists.transitriders.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/transit">http://lists.transitriders.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/transit</a></blockquote></div>_______________________________________________<br>Transit mailing list<br><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:Transit@transitriders.org">Transit@transitriders.org</a><br><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://lists.transitriders.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/transit">http://lists.transitriders.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/transit</a></div></blockquote></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Transit mailing list<br><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:Transit@transitriders.org">Transit@transitriders.org</a><br><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://lists.transitriders.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/transit">http://lists.transitriders.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/transit</a></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><br><br><signature></signature></div></body></html>