An exciting experiment is planned this Sunday, June 22nd in our neighborhood of North Portland. Sunday Parkways is modeled after the Ciclovias (bike path en español) event in Bogotá, Columbia where every Sunday streets are closed to cars so bikers, skaters, walkers and runners can enjoy the streets without traffic.  The event in Portland this Sunday is from 8am – 2pm and straddles 1-5 to connecting four neighborhoods in North Portland with six miles of streets closed to cars.  There is no start or finish to the event, so people wanting to enjoy the streets can fall in with the parkway at any point.

Portland is the perfect place for an ‘experiment’ such as this, a town where the City Auditor estimates that at least 16% of people already use their bike as primary or secondary form of transportation to work.  We are the first large US city to achieve Platinum Level status of Bicycle Friendly Community from the League of American Bicyclists, and the community is open and excited for new developments made in the world of biking in Portland.

Yay North Portland.

Deanna Duke, who writes the blog, Crunchy Chicken, is being honored by her friends this month. This amazing woman started Goods 4 Girls and gave all of us who were floundering around, not knowing how to help, a great direction.  Goods 4 Girls collects cloth pads and sends them to school girls in Africa.  It's an amazing and wildly successful organization that GladRags is proud to be working with through our G4G Kit.  Her blog, Crunchy Chicken, is full of great info and inspiration and makes an entertaining read. She is committed to a better world and has the guts to speak her mind.

Deanna is a woman who can really turn thought into action. A Crunchy Tribute tells you how you can take some action too.  Our action for Deanna this month is a donation of four G4G Kits and we are putting the G4G Kit on 10% discount so you can help too!

Thanks Deanna for all your good work!

-Brenda