Tag: cascade bicycle club
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Want to learn how to be a bike advocate? Register for Cascade’s ‘virtual ALI’
Cascade Bicycle Club is transforming its excellent Advocacy Leadership Institute into an online training course. So if you want to learn more about how to be a bike advocate, organize a campaign or tell your personal story, this could be a great fit. I mean, you’re not going anywhere anyway, right? It’s a six-week course…
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With the fate of events uncertain, Cascade cuts half its staff and appeals for donations
Cascade Bicycle Club moved Friday to furlough half its staff in what leaders describe as an effort to save the club, which is marking its 50-year anniversary this year. “We want to make sure it’s around for another 50 years,” said Executive Director Richard Smith. “It became clear that we had to plan for the…
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Friday: Cascade Bicycle Club is hosting a ‘Solo Scavenger Hunt’
Cascade Bicycle Club organizes community biking events, so the social distancing protocols make so many of their regular activities impossible right now. The organization already postponed their annual Bike Swap has been moved to June 14, the Bike Everywhere Breakfast has been moved to June 3, the Washington Bike, Walk, Roll Summit has been moved…
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Biking during the pandemic
With the announcement that Seattle Public School will close for at least two weeks and gatherings of 250 people of more have been banned, our region has reached a new level in its social distancing efforts. Events venues have been shuttered, and many businesses are voluntarily shutting their doors. Bike Works, for example, is closed…
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Cascade: Bike safety p.e. classes expanding to Seattle middle schools
Nearly all Seattle elementary schoolers already go through the Let’s Go Bicycle and Pedstrian Safety program as part of their physical education. But now the program is expanding to include middle schools, as well. The course, offered by Cascade Bicycle Club and Outdoors For All, will reach 40,000 students per year, doubling the number of…
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Mayor Durkan: ‘Eastlake is moving forward’
Mayor Jenny Durkan removed all doubt about what she thinks about Eastlake Ave bike lanes during a mid-day press event today. “Without prejudging what would come out of an EIS or what the lawyers would say, we need that bike lane,” she said in response to a question from Heidi Groover at the Seattle Times.…
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