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Walk/Bike Nashville has been working extremely hard (and well) to make Nashville a pedestrian and cyclist friendly city, and tonight they will hold their annual meeting to discuss successes of the last year and present awards for Nashvillians who helped make the city more walkable/bikeable in 2009.

The meeting takes place at 6:45 at the downtown Farmers Market, but folks will be meeting at “a watering hole of their choice” in Germantown at 5:30 and walking from 5th and Madison at 6pm to the Farmers Market.

If you can’t attend tonight, please check out the Walk/Bike Nashville website, which has a lot of information, and consider becoming a member of this important local non-profit. It is $20 per individual, $30 for a family, and $100 for an institution. Awesome.

Sunday October 11th

Centennial Park

1pm sign up, 1:45 start

Pog Scavenger Hunt:

-100 pogs will be hidden throughout Nashville, west of the river anywhere from 1st Ave to 30th Ave
-Meet up at Centennial Park at 1:00 on Sunday October 11th for sign in
-Race starts at 1:30-1:45, and we meet back at Halcyon Bike Shop for a cookout at 4:00
-I will give you a manifest with all of the locations of the pogs
-You may operate as an individual or as a team, however if you choose to operate as a team the pogs you collect will be split evenly among your members

Rules:
-Whoever collects the most pogs individually (or after team division) wins
-In the event of a tie, the two top performers will then play the Pog game to determine the winner
-Winner will receive the entire set of pogs and two slammers
-There are also extra “mystery” prizes for both the first and second place winners
-MAKE SURE YOU BRING A BAG OR SOMETHING TO CARRY THE ENVELOPES CONTAINING THE POGS IN

The cookout will be Pot Luck. Bring something tasty to share with friends. Don’t care if it’s beer, cookies, chips, hotdogs, buns, whatever. Just bring something!

Wow. A seventeen-year-old boy from Pensacola, FL  was hit and killed by a police officer while riding his bike this past weekend. The boy was being pursued by the officer’s car after “suspiciously” hanging out at a construction site. The officer used taser gun on the boy, which caused him to crash his bicycle. The police car then ran over the boy.

Tragic, yes. Unnecessarily force? Yes. More than anything, I hear this story and think “THIS is why education on cyclist safety is important.”A taser gun??? On a cyclist??? Any educated person, a police officer at that, should know that a taser renders someone paralyzed for moments. Obviously this will cause a cyclist to crash, which in itself is brutal treatment. Especially considering that the teen hadn’t done anything except be seen at a construction site after hours.

Please spread the word on this story!