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Year: 2008

Pinot Pedal

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URBAN WINEWORKS AND BISHOP CREEK CELLARS PRESENT THE 2ND ANNUAL PINOT
PEDAL BIKE RIDE

PORTLAND, OR – Bishop Creek and Urban Wineworks are kicking off the official fundraiser for projects like the NW Flanders Bridge Project. The event will start with a leisurely 16 or 27 mile bicycle ride organized by Shift and Umbrella which will spin through North Portland. The ride will journey along low-traffic roads in order to promote bicycling as a sustainable mode of transportation. After the ride is complete, riders and non-riders alike will convene at Urban Wineworks, to celebrate in style with wine, food and music.

Registration proceeds and a percentage of Bishop Creek Cellars’ sales will benefit bicycle and pedestrian-friendly projects in the Portland area.

What is the Bridge Project? There has been a proposal in the works for the past two years to recycle the old Sauvie Island bridge, and move it to NW Portland where it would span the I-405 beltway at NW Flanders Street to create a bicycle and pedestrian only byway. This will create a pedestrian and bicycle thoroughfare all the way from Tom McCall Waterfront Park to NW 23rd Ave. and beyond.

Pertinent Details:
Sunday, April 27, 2008
10:00AM-6:00 PM
Urban Wineworks
407 NW 16th Ave.
Portland, OR 97209

This event is fiscally sponsored by Umbrella, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
dedicated to supporting community-based street culture.

For more information:
http://www.urbanwineworks.com/buzz_bike.html
or contact Aaron Tarfman (aaron@yourbodypower.org) or Jeremy Saville
(Jeremy@urbanwineworks.com; 503.226.9797).

Bike Lunch (weekly)

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Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave, Portland Take Trimet (I usually bring a bike helmet with a 3 leafed clover on it to help newcomers find the right table)
12:15pm – 1:15pm, Every Friday

Make friends with bikey people on your lunch break. 12:15PM Friday’s

If it’s cold, or raining at Backspace coffee shop (they sell a mostly vegan menu, and Stumptown coffee).

If it’s warm, and dry at the battleship Oregon on the waterfront (between pine, and oak).
Daniel Patrick Johnson (teknotus), teknotus at gmail daht comm, 503-409-1735

Bike Back the Night

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BIKE BACK THE NIGHT

Col. Summers Park, SE 20th and Belmont Take Trimet (In the covered area)

4:30pm – 6:30pm, Rider check in starts at 4:30, Ride begins 6pm sharp, ends at PSU
In honor of this year’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the Portland Women’s Crisis Line has organized a community bike ride called Back Back the Night. The ride is in partnership with the Portland State Campus’ annual Take Back the Night rally.

The ride is free, short and begins at 6 pm sharp from Colonel Summer’s park in SE Portland (20th and Belmont). Rider check in starts at 4:30. Come early for some sweet treats, and activities. For more information email Ledena at events[at]pwcl.org or call 503-232-9751.

Ledena Mattox , events at pwcl daht oh are gee, www.pwcl.org/, 503-232-9751

Update on North Portland hit-and-run

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Jessica Osborne, the woman who was hit by a man driving a car and left for dead near the intersection of Albina and Rosa Parks Way in North Portland on April 3rd, has re-entered the hospital and the car of the suspect might have been found.

According to her friend Amy Wolf, Osborne was admitted to Emanuel Legacy hospital on Tuesday to have her spleen removed. She remains hospitalized and is recovering from the surgery.

Also, according to Wolf and other sources, the police might have found the car that was involved in the collision.

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Obama, Adams supporters to canvass by bike in Portland

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Obama, during his speech in
Portland back in March.
(Photo by Ethan Jewett/Stickeen)

Local organizers for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and for Commissioner Sam Adams’ mayoral campaign will take to the streets by bike tomorrow.

According to Tyler Wardwell, one of Obama’s field organizers in Multnomah County, Obama supporters will meet up at their campaign headquarters in Southeast Portland and set out into the neighborhood for “some green grassroots organizing — biking door-to-door, registering voters and sharing our stories of why we support Barack.”

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Kids of b.i.k.e. plan big Earth Day bash

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Not surprisingly, there are a lot of rides and events happening this Earth Day weekend. Most of the action happens on Saturday, but there’s an event on Sunday that you might not have heard of yet — a ride and rally to benefit b.i.k.e..

b.i.k.e. stands for Bicycles and Ideas for Kids Empowerment, a local non-profit group that works to get at-risk youths off the streets and onto bikes. With their fearless leader (and jazz aficionado) John Benanate at the helm, the group is making exciting in-roads and reaching kids that most bike groups just pedal right by.

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