Vallery awarded top bike messenger award

The International Federation of Bike Messenger Association's Markus Cook Memorial Award (MCA) is awarded annually for services to the international messenger community. The MCA was conceived as a way for the international messenger community to thank it's most tireless workers, with the recipient of this year's MCA being Jean Andre Vallery of Sarasota, Florida.

Vallery is being honored for his work with the Bicycle Messenger Emergency Fund (BMEF) and will be awarded the MCA on October 18 at a meeting of the Sarasota Bicycle/Pedestrian/Trail Advisory Committee in the Sarasota County Administration Building.