That happy group, Madeline, was headed to the Healthy City Awards, sponsored by Abbot Northwestern....Each year they give an award to the citizen who has made the city a better place....Today 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 year....the 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) REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
