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Day: June 15, 2007

Bikes to Rwanda Benefit

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Event starts at 7pm
$40 family style supper + beer & wine
silent auction (including gift certificates to Loyly (scandinavian sauna),
Seaplane (local clothing store), movie rentals from Clinton
Street Video, bike gear from Seven Corners & more!)

To reserve your spot, call Subrosa at 503-233-1955.
SE 26th & Clinton Street

Bikes to Rwanda is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization whose aim is to provide
cargo bicycles to cooperative coffee farmers in Rwanda.
The goal is to improve the quality of life in these communities through a bike
workshop and maintenance program that provides transportation resources for
basic needs and enhances the production of quality coffee.

Bikes to Rwanda
Subrosa

Adams to launch transportation funding “initiative” next week

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Bicycle Master Plan open house (N/NE)

Adams at Jefferson High last night.
(He’s not sunburned, it’s just
a bad photo.)
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Portland City Commissioner Sam Adams is gearing up to launch a new transportation funding initiative. Last night at the Bicycle Master Plan open house in North Portland, he stopped by to drop a hint.

As attendees filled out comment forms and discussed the pros and cons of various bike routes, Adams came to the microphone and said,

“The City’s transportation budget has a $422 million backlog and at our current rate, we’re going deeper in the hole by $9 million each year…The work you’re doing tonight will very soon turn into plans for a new funding initiative.”

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Vulnerable Users bill gets some unlikely support

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Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Lars Larson can usually be counted on for ranting against bicyclists, but now it seems he’s taking a cue from the Oregonian and showing his support for the Vulnerable Roadway Users bill.

Case in point. I was forwarded an email from someone who claimed to have heard him speaking positively about the bill on his show this morning. A quick look at the front page of his website, and sure enough, “Do we really need more laws to protect cyclists?” is listed as a topic.

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Safe Routes to School Program, BTA

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Job Title: Safe Routes to School Program Coordinator, Bicycle Transportation Alliance

Compensation: $11-13.50/hr./DOE (Full-time 40hr per week position)

Description:
The Safe Routes to School (SR2S) Program Coordinator will work with the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) and Willamette Pedestrian Coalition (WPC) to coordinate walking and biking encouragement and education programs in 5 Portland Public Schools. The Coordinator will work with principals, school staff, parents, and community members to provide encouragement, education, engineering, and enforcement programs in each school. The programs teach and inspire school age youth to be safe and predictable bicyclists and pedestrians, and promote safe transportation to and from school. The coordinator will report to the Safe Routes to School Program Manager.

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Our ‘accidental’ car culture

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What does the word accident mean?

A mistake, but not just any mistake — not an action, but an outcome both unintended and unavoidable, something no reasonable person could have predicted or prepared for. The word is commonly used to describe bad things happening to good people from natural causes — the proverbial banana peel, a sudden strike of lightning, a verbal misunderstanding, a small child’s lack of control — and car crashes.

One of these things is not like the others.

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Pedaling toward a dream on the Historic Columbia River Highway

A tour of the Historic Columbia River Highway

One of several scenic lookouts.
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Last week I got an up-close look at one of the country’s most scenic bikeways. My guide was Jeanette Kloos, President of the Friends of the Historic Columbia River Highway, a new group that is working to restore and reconnect the highway to its previous glory.

Originially completed in 1922, the Historic Columbia River Highway is a marvel of road engineering. Referred to as a “poem in stone,” it stretches from Troutdale east to the Dalles, snaking high and low along the Columbia River Gorge. It was the first road in the U.S. to be built specifically as a scenic highway it’s now officially recognized as a National Scenic Byway and listed on the National Registry of Historic Places.

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Mini-bike Steeple Chase

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@ Zoobomb (Top of the hill)
9:00pm
Come meet at the Zoo hill for the second annual Mini-Bike Steeple Chase. Imagine going break-neck speeds, flying down dark paths, following one trail, if you get lost, you lose, first one down wins!! Trophy awarded to the winner!
Turbo, morganic007 at yahoo daht comm

Karaoke to Karaoke Ride

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@ 800 e burnside (by Jupiter Hotel)
7:30pm
What’s better than going out to sing karaoke with a bunch of bikey pals? Singing karaoke, on your bike, while riding to the next karaoke joint!
Join up with the Sexy Cyclists and sing out with our mobile karaoke studio. First-timers welcome! We all sing lousy, so why worry?
T-2-the-Mo, timolandia at gmail daht comm, www.singshot.com/

Sexy Cyclists Ride

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@ 19 SW 2nd Ave, Portland (Berbati)
6:30pm
Meet at 6:30, ride at 7:00
High Heels! a short Skirt! Hot Pants!!!… experience the feel of the wind on your thighs and show off those legs you sexy thing! You boys better come too. If you can’t (won’t) squeeze your toes into a pair of heels, who can fault you ~ but a skirt with “lift” is a must! We’ll take our stylish flamboyance over the bridge (skirts flying high!) and meet up with those Krazy Karaokeista’s for the KARAOKE 2 KARAOKE PUB CRAWL. jacqueauthier[at]earthlink.net
Jacque Authier, glam.ma.ma at gmail daht comm, www.velorution.biz/?p=1333

Bike to Microblues Festival (WA)

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@ 8th & Esther Streets (Esther Short Park)
5:00pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday
Microblues Festival is a family blues music event held in beautiful Esther Short Park located in historic downtown Vancouver Washington. There will be food vendors, souvenirs as well as beer and wine garden for the adults. Bring your family and enjoy a day of fun and music in this premium outdoor venue. 8 at the door, Children under 12 – Free
No Name, www.microblues.com/, 360-450-7087

Meticon Bike Block Party

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@ 5925 SE Foster Rd (Corner of SE Foster and SE 60th.)
4:00pm – 10:00pm
Grand Opening celebration and partnerhship for Meticon Bikes and Community Exchange Bike School!
We will have food, games, design a bike rack contest, raffles, and live music!

Tina Giggles, tinagiggles at gmail daht comm, Meticon Bikes & Community Exchange Bike School

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