Bike jewelry inspires and beautifies

“I can’t tell you how many people asked me where I had gotten that pin, and when they heard it was from a patient, everyone wanted one,” Greishop said. “It occurred to me that something like that could be a really great fundraiser for this year.”

So she went to Sawchuck Jewelers in Hilliard with a proposition for owners Kevin and Heidi Sawchuck.

In no time, a new line of jewelry was born — Pelotonia-approved pins, pendants, bracelets and necklaces that are available at the Sawchucks’ store, at the Medical Center’s gift shop and at Hope’s Boutique at JamesCare in Dublin. The line made enough money in one week in early July to pay the minimum for two of the riders in Grieshop’s peloton, Rays for the Cure, and will be available year-round to raise money even in Pelotonia’s “offseason.”

“I worked really hard to raise my goal last year, and this year I wanted people to have a takeaway of some kind to give them a little more incentive to give,” Grieshop said. “Kevin and Heidi were so great to work with and were very open to allowing all the profits above the manufacturing cost to go to Pelotonia.”

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