We just finished our World Film Festival membership drive on a high note, the bike shops are busy with spring tune-ups, and bicycle riders are in the news…
Let’s get together and start working on making Kelowna a greater bike friendly city, City Hall, cyclists and non-cyclists alike.
March 22nd, 2012 5:30 pm at Lauren’s house on Birch.
Questions? Please email info@kelownacycling.org.
See you there.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/epa-gallery/all/1
For the Documerica Project (1971-1977), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hired freelance photographers to capture images relating to environmental problems, EPA activities, and everyday life in the 1970s.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/collections/72157620729903309/
This weekend we are at Okanagan College offering half off our membership!
Here is a photo of Fae and Hans. Stop in and say HI.
Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I have hope for the human race.
~ H.G. Wells
We had a great Sunday afternoon at Summerhill winery. During the Organic Okanagan Festival KACC volunteers helped welcome guests and park their bicycles. Really couldn’t be a better day. Thanks to Lauren and Fae for their work.
Thanks to the City of Kelowna for supplying the racks. We have been asked to do this all over again Sunday the 25th at Car Free Day.
See you there.
September 21st 7 PM Rotary Centre for the Arts (Boardroom)
Jim Couper of Bicycles for Humanity will speak on this organization’s great program of providing transportation for those in need. In rural Ghana bicycles are used for getting to work, by doctors and nurses and are easy to maintain.
Jim Couper is the founder of Pedal, Canada’s national cycling magazine, and a long-time cycling enthusiast.As a travel writer and travel addict he has wandered through more than 80 countries. In March he visited Ghana, in West Africa, on behalf of Bicycles for Humanity, to better understand the need for two-wheel transport in that country. Bicycles for Humanity, founded in Kelowna, has sent more than 2000 bicycles to various African countries. There are now eight chapters of BFH in four countries.
Following the main presentation local bike shop Fresh Air Experience will give advice on fall cycling and show off some gear.
The Kelowna Area Cycling Coalition (a chapter of the BC Cycling Coalition) will be the event host. KACC has been advocating for safe and convenient facilities for all level of cyclists throughout the Kelowna area since the early 1990s. Our wonderful weather and relatively level layout together with greater budgetary and council support and planning can attract greater numbers to bicycle and make this city cleaner and healthier.
June 26 Group Ride.
I had an epiphany the other morning. Well, maybe not an epiphany exactly but a light bulb moment mixed with a touch of deja vu at least. I was running a few errands around town and it came to me (again ?), I didn’t have to look for a parking spot or even dig in my pocket for change for a parking meter. I can remember times that it took many trips around several blocks to find a parking spot and when I found one it would be a block or more from my destination. I will concede that riding a bike in the down town core has a challenge or two, but with a bit of planning and Google maps it can be done. More and more businesses are providing bike racks so I have found that with a set of panniers the world is my oyster! If the thought of riding in traffic is a bit overwhelming then I invite you to join us for some group rides, there is a lot of experience in the Coalition to be taken advantage of.
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