What's on our agenda for 2009 (in addition to our first Saturday of the month rides)?

• In February SPOKESPEOPLE will test lights and reflective clothing for kids walking and biking to our neighborhood John Stanford International School. Safe Lights to School is a SPOKESPEOPLE project awarded a Seattle Department of Transportation grant. We'd be delighted with community help on this project. http://www.seattle.gov/Transportation/saferoutes.htm
  
  
• In March, we'll ride with a group to the Seattle Green Festival (March 28-29) at the downtown Convention Center www.greenfestivals.org/seattle.
  
  
• April 22 is Earth Day. We'll celebrate with an Earth Ride.
  
  
• May is Bike to School and Work month www.cbcef.org/btw/index.html. We're working with our local schools and businesses to get new riders on the road.
  
  
• In June you can follow a bike map on a Wallingford Garden Tour http://www.wallingford.org/page.aspx?pageid=4189
  
  
• July 11 is the Wallingford SeaFair Kiddie's parade. Spokespeople riders will again join up with the Wallingford wheelbarrow drill team http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJGyAce9_dE
  
  
• August 4 is our Night Out http://www.cityofseattle.net/police/Nightout/default.htm. A great day for new bikers to get moving all over the city.
  
  
• By the end of the summer, the Ballard Sail Transport Network will be in full swing delivering all-organic produce from local farmers via fossil fuel-free sailboats http://sustainableballard.org/wiki/index.php?title=WITT. We hope SPOKESPEOPLE can help with bike deliveries from the Ballard docks. We're also looking now at how bicycle riders can become an essential part of our Community Preparedness teams.
  
  
• September 5 is the Seattle Tilth Harvest Fair (the Tilth Edible Plant Sale is May 2-3). http://www.seattletilth.org. September is also the time of the Sustainable Ballard Festival. SPOKESPEOPLE will again plan rides with both events. We'll also be stopping at our friends at PCC Natural Markets www.pccnaturalmarkets.com for a free treat whenever our rides take us near a PCC market!
  
  
• In early October you can follow a bike map around the Wallingford Home Tour http://www.wallingford.org/page.aspx?pageid=4229
  
  
• Undrivers' Licenses should the preferred ID of every SPOKESPEOPLE rider! http://undriving.blogs.sustainableballard.org/ We hope to have an Undriver event later this year.