Join the May Bike Month Challenge and ride your bike and burn calories instead of gas.
Congratulations Sharon Fowler! You win a cool new “Fargo” cap in the May Bike Month Challenge!
You can join too, just “like” the page and “Ride your bike everyday, at least a mile for the rest of May”
“Ride your bike everyday, at least a mile in the month of May”
Thanks for all the folks joining the May Bike Month Challenge and clicking “Like” and ride your bike everyday in the month of May that’s remaining after you join. Congratulations to Sara at Red Raven Expresso Parlor for winning a FARGO cap (depicted below)
You can join for a chance to win a FARGO cap too!
Fargo is ranked as 46th best biking community by Bicycling Magazine. Bikers need to obey all traffic rules of the road and drivers also need to share the road safely.
As more and more people are choosing to bike which burns fat instead of fuel, it’s important to know the best ways to share the road safely.
Here’s a Fargo website with excellent information and videos about bike safety: http://www.cityoffargo.com/CityInfo/Departments/Police/CitizenResources/BikeSafety/
Here’s some history of Bike Month in May started in 1956 from an article in the League of American Bicyclists:
To sign up, check out and “like” the May Bike Month Challenge facebook page! Then take the challenge to: “Ride your bike everyday, at least a mile in the month of May”
You can join too, just “Like” the May Month Challenge page. The 100th like wins a cool FARGO cap!
Fargo is ranked as 46th best biking community by Bicycling Magazine. Bikers need to obey all traffic rules of the road and drivers also need to share the road safely.
As more and more people are choosing to bike which burns fat instead of fuel, it’s important to know the best ways to share the road safely.
Here’s a Fargo website with excellent information and videos about bike safety: http://www.cityoffargo.com/CityInfo/Departments/Police/CitizenResources/BikeSafety/
Here’s some history of Bike Month in May started in 1956 from an article in the League of American Bicyclists:
Ride your bike everyday, at least a mile in the month of May!
Finally some sunshine and nicer weather!
We can make the most of it and celebrate Bike Month during May by getting the bike down from the rafters, putting some air in the tires, and save some gas by riding at least a mile each day in May.
Fargo is ranked as 46th best biking community by Bicycling Magazine. Bikers need to obey all traffic rules of the road and drivers also need to share the road safely.
As more and more people are choosing to bike which burns fat instead of fuel, it’s important to know the best ways to share the road safely. Here’s a Fargo website with excellent information and videos about bike safety: http://www.cityoffargo.com/CityInfo/Departments/Police/CitizenResources/BikeSafety/
Here’s some history of Bike Month in May started in 1956 from an article in the League of American Bicyclists:
For fifty-five years, National Bike Month has been the perfect time for new or returning riders to get back on the saddle and ride their bike to work. Originally the Cycle Trade Association called the month American Bike Month but in 1956 it evolved to Bike Month. Along with the name change, Bike Month became more about promoting cycling and safe bicycling, not just selling bicycles.
Biking History Dates
1880 League of American Wheelman founded
1888 First pneumatic tires
1890 Good Roads Movement
1896 Buffalo soldiers test bicycle for military use in mountainous terrain
1899 Major Taylor wins 1-mile sprint world championship
1902 First 3-speed gear hub
1903 First Tour de France
1905 Office of Public Roads created
1920 Derailleurs make an appearance
1930 Quick release hub invented
1950s Multi-speed components mastered
1956 League designates May as National Bike Month
1960s 10-speed becomes available to general public
1970 Bicycle helmet safety standard introduced
1972 Bicycles outsell cars in US (13 million to 11 million)
1974 Adventure Cycling Association founded as Bikecentennial
1976 Mountain Biking as a sport is born
1984 Women cyclists compete for first time in Olympics
1986 Greg LeMond becomes first American to win Tour de France
1988 International Mountain Biking Association founded
1991 Congress passes ISTEA 1991
1991 Congressional Bike Caucus is formed
1996 Bikes Belong Coalition founded
1997 First Walk to School Day
1998Congress passes TEA-21
1999 Lance Armstrong wins 1st Tour de France
2000 First federal Safe Routes to Schools grant
2001 America Bikes Founded
2002 Senate Bike Caucus is formed
2005 Bicyclists win and achieve … Complete Streets, Safe Routes to School, Fair Share for Safety, Bike Commuting Tax Benefit, etc.
Thanks to all the student volunteers and all the others that helped make and now deploy these sandbags to protect for a major flood. THANK YOU!
Here’s a clip on NBC Nightly news yesterday and on Today. This was at John and Erin Bertel’s neighborhood where hundreds of South High Bruins made short work of protecting the area.
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/51681946#51681946
We started promptly at 9:30 and were done by noon in this neighborhood with about 30,000 bags to protect to 40′.
In comparison, we needed 800,000 bags in this neighborhood in 2009 to protect to 42’6. With home buyouts and several permanent dikes in backyards, it would have taken 200,000 bags for the same 42’6 protection now, 600,000 less bags this year.
We’re continuing to improve each year with more permanent protection and remove homes in vulnerable areas where FEMA certified protection cannot be placed to protect the city to 42’6 by 2016.
Fargo prepares for major flood
Thank you to all the student and neighborhood volunteers, engineers, firefighters, National Guard, and all! It’s inspiring to work with all these incredible people toward a common cause.
Our challenge is to protect our community so we don’t have to sandbag every flood and that work is ongoing. With 43 sections of land in Fargo’s footprint we have 56 miles of perimeter.
As that important work is underway, we need to look for opportunities to harness this incredible positive energy and community spirit that engages these wonderful people to work together to accomplish other community goals when it’s not a crisis.
The GO2030 Key Initiative rankings below are a compilation of responses from thousands of community members comments through GO2030 online Mind Mixer, public forums, and surveys. Click this for full list
Key Initiative Guiding Principles identified through GO2030 public responses:
These and many more are all areas we are working with the community to improve to make Fargo an even more safe, attractive, interesting, vibrant, and resilient city where people want to live, learn, work, and play.
If you haven’t joined in the fun, we’re going to continue this community outreach to hear your ideas. We want to hear from you, sign up for GO 2030 Mind Mixer Townhall and weigh in. We never know where the best ideas will come from, and with your help, we can make the best ideas win!
YAY sunshine! 50 degrees has been a long time coming in 2013. We have a lot of sunshine and warm to make up. My poor tulips started popping up March 18th and now are starting to come in earnest.
Soon, and very soon, they will look like this:
Thanks to the Fargo South Bruins and all the other volunteers Monday that produced 98,000 bags. The Bruins kicked out the vast majority of those, 90,000 by the end of their shift at 2 p.m. THANK YOU!
If you’re interested in working with a lot of great volunteers, the best time to come is 3 – 7 p.m. as it takes about 72 people to keep one spider going at full bore. That’s 7,000 bags an hour!
Sandbag Central will be open Tuesday and Wednesday and then go into stand-by mode while sandbags are being deployed on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
If you would like to help, you can get in on the fun by checking http://volunteerstatus.cityoffargo.com/ and call 476-4000 to join in.
I had the chance to stack pallets for these great young women Bruins yesterday. They were an incredible team and had fun while not spilling hardly a granule of sand! Thanks Jessica (on left) and crew!
Here’s another team of Bruins getting ready for another run after lunch. Some are dancing to get ready to go! Thank you all for your great effort!
If you would like to help, you can get in on the fun, swing by Sandbag Central anytime between 3 and 7 today or Wednesday. You can see where volunteers are most needed here http://volunteerstatus.cityoffargo.com/ and call 476-4000 to join in.
Friday at the beach kicked out 112,000 sandbags thanks to the Davies Eagles, our friends at Cass County and enough volunteers coming in after 3 pm – 7 to keep a spider running full bore.
So far in two days we have 222,000! Sandbag Central will open again Saturday at 8 a.m. – 7 p.m close Sunday and open again Monday – Wednesday 8 a.m. – 7 p.m.
If you would like to help, you can get in on the fun by checking where we need the most volunteers here http://volunteerstatus.cityoffargo.com/ and call 476-4000 to join in.
We had a fun crew for our Friday Beach Party! Thanks Joel, Candice, Steve, Cassio (not pictured), and Grant, it was a blast working with you today!
Cassio and Joel stacked this beauty! The forklifts can hardly wait to get this one
Thanks to these young artists for sharing their talent. They lift our spirits and add to the fun!
If you would like to help, you can get in on the fun by checking where we need the most volunteers here http://volunteerstatus.cityoffargo.com/ and call 476-4000 to join in.
Sandbagging resumed Thursday with gusto, with 300 North High Spartans leading the charge to 110,000 bags!
Thanks to all the great student volunteers, our friends from Cass County, and another strong showing from Sanford along with our amazing daily volunteers.
Sandbag Central will be open 8 a.m. – 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday this week, then start up again on Monday the 22nd until finished.
If you would like to help, you can get in on the fun by checking where we need the most volunteers here http://volunteerstatus.cityoffargo.com/ and call 476,4000 to join in.
Here’s our fantastic Spartans from left, Brian, Levi, Dallas, Mitchell, and Brandon. These guys hardly spilled a granule they are so efficient. Thanks for your leadership guys!
Victor on the right was my replacement. He stacks so fast the camera can’t keep up. Thank you all, it was fun bagging with you!
If you would like to help, you can get in on the fun by checking where we need the most volunteers here http://volunteerstatus.cityoffargo.com/ and call 476,4000 to join in.
Sandbag Central is starting up again on Thursday at 8 a.m. to make sandbags while the snow flies. They will be open 8 a.m. – 7 p.m. Thursday, through Saturday this week, then start up again on Monday the 22nd through Saturday.
If you would like to help, you can get in on the fun by checking where we need the most volunteers here http://volunteerstatus.cityoffargo.com/ and call 476,4000 to join in.
Thanks to the incredible volunteers, the city now has about 1,250,000 sandbags on hand. To be prepared for the worst, engineers have suggested we build an additional 500,000 bags for the city and Cass County is evaluating how many more they might need.
The recent wet snow and late melt is making for a very late crest for whatever flood level it turns out to be. The latest crest in the last 125 years was April 19th, the average crest is about April 11th.
These young leaders from Discovery tied them high and let them fly! Zach is a great twister and Larry on the right is a master at stacking beautiful square pallets. It was great working with this team last Friday.
Thanks to all the city staff and firefighters for keeping this operation running smooth. After the last shift Friday, we cleaned it all up ready to go again, which we are.
The power of one. This gentleman has come almost everyday to help out wherever he can. Thank you!!
You can get in on the action by checking where we need the most volunteers here http://volunteerstatus.cityoffargo.com/ and call 476,4000 to join in the fun.
