That happy group, Madeline, was headed to the Healthy City Awards,
sponsored by Abbot NorthwesternEach year they give an award to the
citizen who has made the city a better placeToday it went to Murial
Simmons, the great citizen who staked her claim to a corner of Park and
27th when it was a haven for drug dealers, helped chase them from her
neighborhood and helped lay the groundwork for Wells Fargo and Allina to
come into the neighborhood. She was the one in the rickshaw in the
front. I was on roller skiis, as were a bunch of others from the City
of Lakes Loppet. The others were on various wheels in a parade from
Abbot to the Depot. Next year we are going to expand the wheel concept,
hoping to add doctors and nurses in gurney races, etc. So come up with
your own wheel concept and join us next yearthe odder the better.
(P.S. The person driving the car and keeping other drivers from killing
us was the list's own Barb Lickness.)
-Original Message-
From: md [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 8:19 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Mpls] Velomobiles on Washington Ave
Today about 5:15 pm I saw a wonderful, eccentric, happy group of people
heading
down Washington Ave So in downtown Minneapolis...with a police escort.
They turned down 3rd ave and headed toward the bicycle paths by the Mill
Ruins park...
There were rollerbladers, guys with skis on wheels, regular bicycles,
recumbent bikes,
a bicycle taxi, 3-wheeled bikes and yes even two of the delightful
flying egg Velomobiles...
Life would be splendid (at least on sunny warm days) if we could all
commute that way...
Who the heck were they and what were they up to?Wish I'd had a
camera.
Madeline Douglass
Kingfield (mpls)
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