October 2025 | Amici per la Vita Niagara Cycling Club

Amici Year End Banquet and Awards: Sun. Nov. 9 RESERVE SPOT

Posted by Beverley Wright | Thursday, October 9, 2025 - 10:07am

When: Sunday, Nov. 9. 4-7:30pm

Where: Johnny Rocco’s Italian Restaurant Stone Mill Ballroom (upstairs), 271 Merritt St. St. Catharines, ON L2T 1K1

Who: Current Amici Members and their guest

What: Food, Fun, Friends! Our Awards will be presented at this time. Socialize and share and meal with your fellow Amici. Maybe meet some new faces!

Cost: $40 members; $50 guest

Enjoy a buffet-style meal: 2 salads, penne pasta, meatballs, antipasto, coffee & tea and of course, dessert

Register before Nov. 1 with your payment by e-transfer to:

aplvncccorp@gmail.com (note there are 3 “c’s”)

Or Cash payments to: Eva Klein, 6279 Huggins Street, Niagara Falls, ON, Monday-Friday 9-4pm. Please call ahead: (905) 354-3412

Spirit of Amici: 2025 Nominations Open!

Posted by Beverley Wright | Thursday, October 9, 2025 - 9:26am

Please take a moment to read this and to nominate a fellow Amici for this prestigious award.

Nominations should be sent to Louann Singleton & Les Potapczyk (glsingle@bell.net; potapczyk@sympatico.ca)

What is the "Spirit of Amici Award?"

In Gord's own words from 2023: "Our club is about experiencing cycling together, but more importantly it's about helping and sharing with our fellow members. The Spirit of Amici Award is to honour the member that best represents this and can be accomplished by anyone in our club.It's not about the fastest, most rides attended, or most kilometers ridden.It's awarded to the person who most exemplifies the true meaning of "Friends for life", the person who is an example of the "Spirit of Amici"If you feel that someone in our club has demonstrated a friendly gesture towards another member, please forward their name as a nomination. Louann and Les will tally up the nominations and the Amici with the most will be honoured.So please take the time to nominate your friends. Each nomination must be accompanied with a brief explanation telling us what your favored person has done."

You can receive the Amici award more than once while you are a member. But you cannot receive it two years in a row AND YES! you may nominate more than one Amici.

We have a lot of great Members out there who continue to make our Club GREAT!

Past recipients have included Bev Wright, Les and Peggy Potapczyk, Bill Reimer, Allyson Grady, Marcus Klein and most recently, Rick Hesp Thanks for your support!