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Joy Project Dedication Ceremony

Thursday evening at the bicycle statue in N Natomas Regional Park on N Park Dr. Everyone whose picture is on a banner was invited including:

Brenda rode to my house, then we met BarbaraL and rode to the celebration.

Here is the link to read more about the N Natomas Joy Project: https://jibe.org/placemaking/northnatomasjoyproject

Councilmember Lisa Kaplan’s District 1 office was a co-sponsor of the project.

Mellissa Meng, Michelle Reynolds, Lisa Kaplan:

Rachel and Lori were out for a ride and stopped by.

To the right, Dennis from N Magazine – now an online magazine for Natomas – and Mateo from Councilmember Kaplan’s office.

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Additional filming

As Anya and filmmaker Ellen reviewed the final drafts of the Adult Learn to Ride videos, it was decided to add two additional segments: how to remove and reattach pedals and how to get on a bike. Soon all the videos will be available on YouTube.

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Your bike rides this week

Friday February 16. Dani, Kathy, Cheryl, BarbaraB:

Brenda and Lori:

Saturday February 17. Brenda, Jim and Laurie:

Sunday February 18. Brenda:

Wednesday February 21. Lori and Brenda:

Thursday February 22 Maria and Tony:

Look what Brenda found on her ride!

Later she rode with Laurie:

Friday February 23. Kathy and Dani:

Saturday February 24. Kathy noticed the paddleboat was almost ready to float away.

Sunday February 25. Brenda, Maria, Lori, and Laurie:

Tuesday February 27. Brenda, Laurie, Rachel:

Lori:

Wednesday February 28. Lennore:

And then it rained for several days.

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Basketball

The Parochial Athletic League championship games. St Ignatius was in the finals for all four games, jv and varsity, girls and boys. Avery #10 played for the jv team.

Note the final score. Sophia and Uncle Justin:

Champions:

Shortly after Avery’s game, Carson played his final Upward basketball game at a nearby school.

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Football on Sunday

While Sophia played volleyball in Roseville, Carson #1

and Avery – catching the ball – played their final flag football games.

Carson will now focus on Little League baseball. Avery will play volleyball, golf, and do track & field for the next few months. Sophia will continue with club volleyball. Busy family.

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Slow Down Sacramento

We planned to ride to Tahoe Park Elementary but the threat of rain caused us to drive instead. Also, currently, you can’t ride through Discovery Park due to flooding, which would have meant “taking the lane” on high-speed Hwy 160 to get across the river.

Brenda came to advocate with me!

Organizer of the event, Isaac Gonzalez:

We learned about Tactical Urbanism and worked on solutions to troublesome intersections in the area of the City of Sacramento that we lived in. We left with many low-cost easily-implemented tools to use for advocacy in the future. Gathering for a group photo:

It’s hard to get people to go and do these advocacy things with me .. so as a reward we treat ourselves to a stop at Chevy’s on the River on the way home. Cheers! And a BIG thank-you to Brenda.

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Birthday dinner

Terri’s birthday was in early January but she was traveling and couldn’t go out for dinner. Busy schedules kept us from celebrating her birthday until today – Leap Day. We went to Brasserie du Monde.

Terri, me, Elaine:

Delicious cocktails, amazing food. Scallops, fried polenta, snap peas, broccoli rabe:

We decided we need to do more dinners even if no birthday is involved. Too much fun!