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Trail Watch cruised steadily through the winter with after-dark patrols of the Greenway and the Hiawatha LRT Trail. The summer ride hours begin April 1st. These are fun rides with great people. Email [email protected] for more information.

Thank you to our Trail Watch Volunteers (12/2010 – 3/2011) Volunteered for 1-3 Rides: Andres Altamirano Aimee Jefferson Mark Evans Laura Kling Celebrate Arbor Day Ted Fabel Kathleen Sullivan Saturday, May 7 from 9 a.m. to noon Lauren Fulner Patrick Williamson Laura Silver Brendan Abrams Satya Varghese Mac Mark Ambroe The Midtown Community Works 11th Annual Arbor Day Event Mary Alivia Bryan Benjamin Cherland will bring volunteers together to celebrate by planting trees and Paul Caspersen Hokan shrubs under the Sabo Bridge over Hiawatha, completing a multi- Gabriel Hoffman Kathy Koch Kathy Holm year planting effort in this area. Snacks, coffee, water and shovels will be provided. Don’t forget your gloves! Volunteered for 4-7 rides: Ted Duepner Scott Campbell Please ride your bike if you can! Automobile parking will be Benjamin Erickson Amy Cusick Becky Monnens Jim Holm available at Allweather Roof at 2101 East 26th Street. Chad Wilkins Rick Stafford For more information or to volunteer, please contact Trail Watch sponsors: Bikes and Pieces, Theresa Nelson, 612-879-0103, [email protected]. Bryant-Lake Bowl, Common Roots Café, Freewheel Bike, Gallactic Pizza, New Belgium Brewing, Old Chicago Pizza, Pizza Luce, Bedlam Theatre, Thanks to our 2011 Arbor Day Peacock Groove, Wells Fargo. funders and contributors: Hennepin County Regional Rail Authority, Hennepin County, MnDOT, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Add your See more Phillips Eye Institute, Allina Hospitals and Clinics, logo by our map, upcoming Target Corporation, Wells Fargo, Tree Trust, City of events , Allweather Roof and Peace Coffee. call 612 879-0105 on p.3 822 W. Lake Street

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excelsior lake calhoun abbott 3 Tour de Fat is coming back! on Saturday, July 23rd is gonna be hopping. We’ll need volunteers to help set up, check IDs, sell beer tokens, serve New Belgium beer, and tear down. But most of all we need you to dress up in your best costume (something you can bike in), bring your gussied-up two-wheeler, and join the fun! Tour de Fat is a whimsical summertime event put on by New Belgium Brewing Co. Complete with a bike-art-parade-kickoff, live entertainment and plenty of New Belgium beer, this traveling carnival honoring bicycle transportation donates all the proceeds to local bike related non-profits (Bicycle Alliance of , Minnesota Off-Road Cyclists, and your very own Midtown Greenway Coalition). They’ll also be giving away a fully loaded commuter bike to one person willing to give up their car, live car-free for one year and be the superstar of the day. Visit www.newbelgium.com/events/tour-de-fat to learn more. Sign up for the Greenway Challenge Saturday, September 24 Start time 2:00 p.m. Everyone loves the Midtown Greenway! In a few short years the Greenway has become the backbone of self-propelled transport in Minneapolis. You walk it, run it, blade it, bike it. Now, help support it! The Greenway Challenge is a bike-a-thon designed for cyclists of all abilities. Raise a minimum of $250 in pledges from friends, family, co-workers and neighbors. All funds raised go directly to keeping your Greenway safe and beautiful. Fantastic prizes await the top individual and team fundraisers, including a biking weekend in scenic Lanesboro, Minnesota (including 2 nights at a B&B or vacation home, dinner and Commonweal Theater tickets). You can ride individually or register as a team of 4. Teams will ride together as a group and get special recognition for their team logo/name on the Midtown Greenway Coalition’s website. All riders, whether riding individually or on a team, will need to register in advance and raise at least $250 in pledges to participate. REGISTER by going to midtowngreenway.org or to volunteer, contact Theresa at [email protected]. Early bird registration by August 15 is $20/rider; $25 after. Shop the Seward Co-op in May Join our Team Sponsors and “Round Up” for the Greenway growing list Allina Hospitals of event and Clinics During the month of May when you shop at the Seward Co-op, you’ll be supporters: Anodyne Coffee House asked if you want to round up and contribute to the Midtown Greenway Lead Sponsors Birchwood Cafe Coalition. For example, when paying $23.00 for a $22.50 purchase, the Quality Bicycle Products Depot Coffee House 50 cent difference will go to the Midtown Greenway Coalition. We are KFAI Freewheel Bike one of the first recipients of the co-op’s new ongoing donation program, Nice Ride Seward Co-op SEED. You can also specify an amount that cashiers will add to your Nokomis Cycle In-Kind Sponsors Penn Cycle purchase total. Thanks Seward Co-op, Barbette Sunrise Cyclery and thanks to all the Greenway lovers who will shop and round up.

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lake st. 4 La coalición Greenway hace planes para el futuro da, contrataremos a un nuevo Director Ejecutivo en los próximos de acceso en las avenidas Pillsbury y Bloomington, y la creación dos meses. Hagan planes ya para asistir a la Reunión anual a de “rayos verdes” que conectarán a los parques de los vecindarios realizarse el 26 de mayo a las 6:00 de la tarde en Balance Fitness con el Greenway. Invitamos a todos a ayudarnos a continuar el Studios (2902 Garfield Avenue) en la cual podremos agradecer a plan para lograr un mejor Greenway. Tim Springer por su 18 años de excelente trabajo, y dar la bien- venida al nuevo director. ¡Gracias a todos los que están ayudando A medida que nos orientamos en esta dirección nueva y expandi- a crear un excelente Greenway! Mission Misión We empower communities to develop, improve, protect, and enjoy the Nosotros habilitamos a las comunidades a desarrollar, mejorar, proteger y Midtown Greenway as a green urban pathway to improve people’s lives. disfrutar del sendero urbano Midtown Greenway para mejorar la vida de la gente.

Thank you to our Donors and Volunteers! (Please call if we have missed you!) Grants and Bob Beverage Edith L. Johnson Carol Peterson Volunteers biota - A Landscape Design Contracts Michael & Susan Blehert Eric Johnson Laurie Pohlman Mary Arneson and Build Firm (Begun or continuing Amy Brugh Phyllis Kahn Emmett Pokorny Holly Buchanan Birchwood Café 12/2/10 - 3/15/11) Derek Burrows Reise Matt Karl Pat & Greg Pratt John DeWitt Bryant Lake Bowl McKnight Foundation Jamie Buss Robert Kasak George Puzak Amanda Dlouhy CARAG The Minneapolis Otto Byhre Robert Kean Nic Puzak Seth Doorn Carbon Creative Foundation Dave Carlson Shirley Keating Mark & Karen Rabinovitch Hans Gasterland Childrens Hospital and Surdna Foundation Nina Clark Scott Kindrick Jennifer Randolph Reise Luke Gliddon Clinics Wells Fargo Foundation Burt Coffin Jan Kleinman Martin & Dorothy Dale Hammerschmidt Children’s of Minnesota Kim Couch Henry Kohring Richmond Eric Hart Dero Bike Rack Business & Alicia Cozine Lindsey Kopp Mark Ritchie Gabriel Hoffman First Unitarian Society Organization Joe & Jean Crocker Thomas Kottke Evan Roberts Food 4 Thought Members/donors Margaret Kirkpatrick Paula De Cosse George & Sonja Kung Elliott Royce Lake Country School (12/1/10 - 3/15/11) Angelina Matias Priscilla Cushman Tom Lais Roger Rusack Midwest Lock and Safe Advance Consulting, LLC. Margaret McGlynn John DeWitt Craig Lassig Todd Sample Miller Hanson Partners Bituminous Roadways, Inc. Leslie Modrack Genie & Joe Dixon Cynthia Launer Richard Sandeen Mrs. Meyers Clean Day Bromelkamp Company LLC Eric Mueller Sheri Doughman Lawrence Levine Richard & Jean Sanford North Prairie Tileworks Freewheel Bike Jo Ann Musumeci Chuck Eddleston Lisa Legge Fadil Santosa Northstar Rollergirls Lomarado Group Michael Nelson Ann & John Elward Scott Likely Paul Satre Old Arizona MOCA/MORC, QBP Paul Nelson Peter & Karen Erickson Ellen Lipschultz Gary Schiff Peace Coffee New Belgium Brewing Julie O’Baoighill Alena Finsky Ken Logsdon Chris & Carol Schoonover Penn Cycle and Fitness North Star Mini Storage George Puzak Peter Fleck Mary Elise Donation made in memory Phillips Garden Process Type Foundry Todd Sample Gerald Flom Lowe & Jane Austin of Caroline Schultz Rotary Clubs of Quality Bicycle Products Karl Stoerzinger Gail Freedman Randi Lyders Carolyn Shrewsbury Minneapolis and Redesign, Inc. Michael T’Kach Michael Fuhrman Mari Lyman Lowe Markus & Tricia Silpala Uptown Smith Foundry Kelly Wilder Lisa & Colin Gardner- Chrissie Mahaffy Robert Simonds Salem and Lyndale SRF Consulting Group Inc. Margaret Wunderlich Churches Springer Kent & Nanette Dale & Judith Simonson The Cornerstone Group Seward Co-op Grocery Richard Garon Malcomson Betsy Sohn In-Kind Donors Transit for Livable & Deli Nancy Gaschott Karen Margolis Sarah Springer Communities Acentos, Inc Sheraton Midtown Hotel Cathy Gasiorowicz Howard & Lynne Markus Ruby Steigerwald Uptown Aurora Properties Augsburg College Smiley’s Clinic Hans Gasterland George Mathews Mary Jane Steinhagen Freewheel Bike Smith Foundry Karma & Brian Geiger Stephen McHenry Harriet & Stephen Swartz individual Members/ Fulton Beer Spirit of the Lakes Shop the Seward Co-op in May Hughes Leslie Modrack Karl Stoerzinger Donors Harriet Brewing St Mary’s University Ray & Marcia Giske Emily Moore Sonny Taylor (12/1/10 – 3/7/11) New Belgium Brewing Surly Brewing Company and “Round Up” for the Greenway Miriam Goldfein Mary Moore Bethany Thomas Darren Acheson (For additional in-kind The Murals of LynLake Peter Goss Eric Mueller Will Thomas Charlie Adair donors specific to The New Congregation Donald Hammen Robert & Ellen Nelson Jane Thomson Trail Watch, see article Dick Adair The Wedge Coop James Haefemeyer Steven & Dawn Nelson Becky Thorson on p. 5; and for The Dwight Anderson Touchstone Eric Hart Nancy Newman Kyle Torfin Greenway Challenge, Steve Anthony Transition Plus Donation made in memory William Nynas Walter & Laura Treichel see p. 3) Scott Anton Trustone of Joey Haley Patrick O’Connor David & Lynn Vander Haar Mary Arneson and Dale Frank & Jane Hennessy Adopt A Greenway West Calhoun Hammerschmidt David Ondich Bob Veitch Linda Susan Hoch Albert’s Organics Neighborhood Edward Axt Ann & Thomas O’Toole Mary Weber Council Delores Holmes Allina Commons Tara Beard Joan Pasiak Foster Willey Jr. Whittier Alliance Thatcher Imboden Anderson Elementary Ann Bernstein Robbie Perl David Woolley Whole Foods Market Midtown Greenwayk Coalition Board Members The Coalition board of diectors consists of one seat for each of the 17 neighborhoods along the Lake Street-Midtown Greenway Corridor, and four at-large seats. (Contact us to learn more about available seats.) Holly Buchanan Eric Hart Leslie Modrack Karl Stoerzinger We are currently seeking carag Longfellow Lowry Hill East (officer at-large mississippi river volunteer board members Glen Christianson Gabriel Hoffman Jo Ann Musumeci Corcoran East Calhoun Seward Whittier Michael T’Kach representing the following John DeWitt Margaret Kirkpatrick Michael Nelson East Isles neighborhoods: Cedar Isles Dean Prospect Park (Secretary) (president) Lyndale Kelly Wilder and Central. We are also hopeful Amanda Dlouhy East Phillips George Puzak Midtown Phillips to increase the diversity of our w. river pkwy. Phillips West Angelina Matias At Large Margaret Wunderlich board of directors when filling At Large (TreasureR) At-Large Seth Doorn these positions. West calhoun For a list of board members’ roles and responsibilities, visit www.midtowngreenway.org. Click on “the Coalition,” then “Board of Directors,” or call 612-879-0103

Tim Springer, Executive Director Theresa Nelson, Programs Manager Ben Cherland, Lutheran Vol. Corps Comm. Organizer 612-879-0105 • [email protected] 612-879-0103 • [email protected] 612-879-0106 • [email protected] 2834 10th Avenue South, Greenway Level, Suite 2, Minneapolis, MN 55407 • www.midtowngreenway.org • Fax: 612-879-0104 5 Tim Springer Reflects on 18 Years with the Coalition By Tim Springer, Executive Director through June 3, 2011 The Midtown Greenway rocks. I love to be on the Greenway when it’s full of commuters, joggers, and joy-riders of all stripes. I feel very fortunate to have been on the team that made it happen. Thank you to the collective Midtown Greenway Coalition community for giving me that opportunity. This job has been extremely rewarding, but also extremely demanding. I decided to move on so that I could slow my pace, smell more roses, and try my hand at some new things. Many people have asked me what’s PARTICIPATE next. Two possibilities that excite me are rehabbing old buildings and bicycle transportation consulting. IN HISTORIC This change will be great for me as well as the Midtown Greenway Coalition. By TRANSITION me stepping aside, the Coalition can more easily empower a broader set of leaders OF EXECUTIVE with more ideas in ways that provide greater organizational depth and sustainability. DIRECTORS This is timely as the Coalition launches a new board-defined initiative. Chapter One of the Coalition’s history was about getting the trails built and well-used by AT ANNUAL all. Chapter Two will be about engaging communities to guide the way rail transit MEETING fits alongside the trails, the way Minneapolis grows up along the Greenway’s edges, and the pursuit of vibrant outdoor spaces within and connecting to the Greenway. • Thursday, May 26th, A successful Chapter Two is essential concerning the Greenway’s long-term safety, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. functionality, and aesthetics. • At Balance Fitness Studio, Speaking of shared responsibility, to the thousands of people who have helped the Coalition over the years, thank you! The continuing success of the Midtown 2902 Garfield Ave. S. Greenway depends to a large extent on the continuing success of the Midtown Join us for this annual celebration that is Greenway Coalition, and this success depends on you maintaining your support and open to the public. There will be board working relationships with the Coalition. Based on past behavior, I know you are all elections, delicious food, time to mingle, up for it. See you out on the Greenway. and a program to formally say farewell to Tim Springer and welcome our new What’s happening at the Freewheel Midtown Bike Center executive director. By Mario Macaruso About our event sponsors: It has been a great 2011 here at Freewheel Fabulous Catering will donate Midtown Bike Center. Trail traffic has a very tasty buffet. Fabulous Catering been steadily increasing even with the big specializes in offering the most beautiful snowstorms this season. We would like and stunning food experience possible to give a large thank you to the city of for its clients, with emphasis on custom Minneapolis who has done a great job clearing menus; quality, professional service; and the trail and making sure graffiti is taken care the freshest available ingredients. of even in sub-zero weather. The increasing angle of the sun, has fueled our excitement for Balance Fitness Studio, the the warm weather. donor of our meeting location, provides personal fitness training in a beautifully- We have added new faces to our line-up at designed facility by trainers with Midtown Bike Center. We are a dedicated and passionate staff. We have added advanced degrees, diverse specialties, Fresh Baked Cookies and a Gourmet Soup menu in the Café, stop by and try and established careers. some delicious goodness, you should reward your self-propelled identity. 2834 10th Avenue South A NEWSLETTER OF THE MIDTOWN GREENWAY COALITION Greenway Level, Suite 2 Minneapolis, MN 55407 PR RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED OS PECT PECT

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