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	Home > Wellstone Bike Club Wellstone Bike Club PICNIC! May 31, 2012 Our Mission: Empowering Female Students through Bicycling in Minneapolis' Diverse Urban Neighborhoods. Through the Wellstone Bike Club, scores of young adult women have learned how to ride a bicycle for the first time. All bike club members are New Americans, primarily from East Africa. Every spring and fall they take to the trails, enjoying Minneapolis' urban beauty on two wheels! Bike Club is led by ELL teacher and bicycle enthusiast Heather McKerrow. Donate your used bike! Due to a change in staffing we are unable to accept bikes for Wellstone Bike Club anymore. However, if you have a bike gathering dust in the garage, we encourage you to donate it to the Pleasant Avenue Alley Bike Club which works with low income youth in South Minneapolis to fix bicycles and gain valuable life skills. If you have a bike you’d like to donate call Jeff at 612-205-8828 or e-mail jcarl001@mpls.k12.mn.us. For more information on the Alley Bike Club: http://mplsbikeworks.blogspot.com/ , Barite is ready to ride, October 2011 "The future will not belong to those who sit on the sidelines. The future will not belong to the cynics. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -Senator Paul Wellstone Women's Riding Club SPRING 2012 What a wonderful spring! Beautiful weather, lush green parks, and bicycling! Congratulations to the ten women who learned to ride! View Slideshow Bike To School Spring 2012 Thanks to all our volunteers, to Gustavo Bau for designing the T-shirt, to Catalyst for the locks and shirts and mostly to all you who rode to school!!! View Slideshow Bike and Walk to School Day 2011 October 5th, 2011: It was a beautiful morning for a celebration of non-polluting transportation to school! View Slideshow FALL 2011 Women's Riding Club Seven women learned to ride this fall! Many others joined for rides. View Slideshow Women's Riding Club, Spring 2011 We had a wonderful spring 2011! Four women learned how to ride for the first time. Congratulations to Egigayu, Megertu, Lensa, Helen. Ten other women continued to build their bicycling skills on twice-weekly rides. View Slideshow Bikes for Gambia In February 2011, Wellstone Bike Club sent 23 bikes to the Gambia, West Africa! View Slideshow Women's Riding Club, Spring 2010! Congratulations to all of the brave women who learned how to ride a bike this spring! It was fun! View Slideshow Bike/Walk to School Day 2010 On October 6, 2010, Wellstone and Roosevelt celebrated walking and bicycling at a before school event. Over 60 students and staff either walked, took transit, or rode their bicycles to school. They were greeted with a festive booth staffed by student volunteers. Everyone enjoyed donuts, coffee, and a chance to "spin the bike wheel" for prizes like helmets, lights, locks, and water bottles. This kind of event is easy and fun to organize. If you would like to organize one at your school, please check out the Minneapolis Bike Ambassadors website: http://www.bikewalktwincities.org/ambassadors PEACE! View Slideshow Winter Bike Workshop 2010 View Slideshow Women's Bike Club Fall 2009 Fifteen female Wellstone students learned how to ride a bike this year! Congratulations to the courageous women of the Wellstone Women's Bike Club! View Slideshow Wellstone Bike Odyssey - an Annual Tradition View Slideshow Roosevelt Wellstone Bike Report Spring 2012 -- 2nd Highest on Record! roosevelt-wellstone_bike_report_fall_2011.docx roosevelt-wellstone_bike_report_spring_2011.docx roosevelt-wellstone_bike_report_fall_2010.docx roosevelt-wellstone_bike_report_spring_2010.doc Roosevelt/Wellstone Bike Report Fall 2009 -- Check out our Fall and Spring Bike Counts, conducted every spring and fall since 2009. Track the growth of bicycling here at Wellstone/Roosevelt. This is a model we hope other schools can emulate. Wouldn't it be great if there were a Twin Cities Bike to School League wherein schools would compete for "Bike to School" champion?		Wellstone Bike Club a Program of Wellstone International High School 4029 28th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55406 Phone: (612) 205-8828 E-mail: jcarl001@mpls.k12.mn.us A Big Thanks to our Community Partners!!!!! Catalyst (bethecatalyst.org) provided U-locks and T-shirts for our Bike to School Spring 2012 event. Many thanks to team at Catalyst for helping us to to jumpstart biking at Wellstone/Roosevelt! Sunrise Cyclery at 901 W Lake St has provided us with at-cost tools, parts, and components and has provided donated accessories. Their website is http://www.sunrisecyclerympls.com/ THANKS!