Pacific Coast Coal Co. administrative building between Maple Valley and Renton. King Couny landmarks
May 2008 archive
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Coal company headquarters
Old Pacific Coast Coal Co. headquarters between Renton and Maple Valley
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Stolen bike carries 56 years of memories
A 1952-vintage Schwinn bicycle that carried Donald Deer and his family all around Evansville for a half-century was stolen from outside a McDonald's recently.
While that Schwinn might be a museum piece for some, it was just a way to get around town for Deer, 64.
The local newspaper tells how Deer won the bicycle as a fourth grader by penning the winning fire safety slogan (Fire prevention week is OK, but let's make it a practice every day)…
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Donald Deer and grandson
Man's Schwinn stolen in Evansville, Indiana. “Man free-wheeling days screech to a halt…”
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Two Washington communities among 11 new Bicycle Friendly towns
Update: May 2, 2008 — Why were they chosen?
Two outstanding communities for bicycling on the Olympic Peninsula — Bainbridge Island and Port Townsend — have been named among the 11 new Bicycle Friendly communities by the League of American Bicyclists.
The others are Colorado Springs and Durango, Colorado, and Minneapolis, Minnesota (all silver level), and Arcata, California, Charlotte, North Carolina, Charlottesville, Virginia, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Oxford, Mississippi, and Sitka, Alaska (bronze).
Seattle cyclists are familiar with Bainbridge Island for hosting February's Chilly Hilly bike ride, above, when more than 4,000 bicycle riders take the ferry and jam up a 33-mile loop around the island.
Port Townsend, also a ferry stop on the Olympic Peninsula, is a destination for bike touring enthusiasts who enjoy stress-free rural roads. …
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It's May — National Bike Month
If you're a bicycle commuter, or would like to be, May is certainly your month.
Communities across the US are sponsoring bike-to-work activities in May to urge people out of their cars and onto their bikes. In many places that support evaporates quickly, but by then it's hoped that commuters have been inspired to ride their bikes regularly.
Many month-long bike commuter contests begin today. Other dates to remember are National Bike Week from May 12 – 16, and Bike to Work Day on May 16 (other dates in some locales). Check the League of American Bicyclists Bike Month Events page for local listings.
Seattle-based Cascade Bicycle Club is sponsoring events in May, featuring the month-long Group Health Commute Challenge, Vulcan Bike to Work Breakfast, May 7, and the Starbucks Bike-to-Work Day, 6-9 a.m., May 16, when 40 stations are set up around the Puget Sound to help bicyclists get to work …
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Dads bicycling for equal rights for divorced parents
Five dads are pedaling out of Lansing, Michigan, this August to begin a five-day, 758-mile bicycle tour to Washington DC.
That might not be an epic bike ride, but these guys who will be riding 150 miles a day aren't exactly ultra-athletes. And they'll be tackling some challenging terrain as they pass through Pennsylvania.
The five are undertaking the Equal Parenting Bike Trek to call attention to the need for children to have equal time with both parents, who are willing and fit, after a divorce. They maintain that parents also have the right for equal time with their children …
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2006 Equal Parenting bike trek
Cyclist poses on a pass. See more at Equal Parenting Bike Trek.
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Trail biking
- The best family bike rides in South AustraliaThe ride is a mix of roadside bike paths and rail trail, running beside ... trails here to satisfy the keen bike-riding family. Adam Bruzzone/SATC.
- Friday: Celebrate the newly-complete waterfront bikeway with a group ride - Seattle Bike BlogIt's been a years-long road to completing this important route! Cascade Bicycle Club, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, and the wider bicycling ...
- Thanks to a $6.3 million grant, this small Tennessee trail system will more than double in sizeMountain bike advocates in Hampton, TN, are hard at work expanding their local trail system, the Hampton Watershed Trails.
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