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Annual General Meeting

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Our AGM (Annual General Meeting) will be held at Appleby College on Fri Nov 19th starting at 7:00 PM.This is a unique venue and gives you a chance to see the buildings and grounds behind those monumental stone entrance pillars. Some notes about the meeting:
- you may want to save a few sheckles and send your kid(s) there!
- we need to know how many people will be coming so you will need to let us know in advance- we will send a note out 4 weeks or so in advance- it will be finger foods...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 31 August 2010 09:13 Read more...
 

Parking at Boyne

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Now that soccer season is underway parking at Boyne Community Centre on Sundays is getting pretty tight.  Since we usually get there first, getting a parking spot is not a problem, but getting out again can be as we saw last Sunday. The soccer crowd have a permit to use the facilities so they are probably entitled to park there more than we are.  Therefore we should make every effort to take up as little space as possible and a further suggestion is to park away from the buildings, so if...

Last Updated on Sunday, 11 July 2010 18:16 Read more...
 

May 1st Update

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Hi All,A few quick notes:If you got caught in the rain today and want to have dry shoes for Sunday's ride, make sure to stuff newspaper in your shoes to wick the water awayleave the newspaper in over night and your shoes will be dry! (the paper will be wet!)you can change the paper after it has been in your shoes for a few hours, but you don't have to..Great turn out for the ride to Dundas' l'Domestique coffee shop - we'll be back!16 riders showed up, which helped when riding through the...

Last Updated on Thursday, 17 June 2010 13:03 Read more...
 

Brisk pace group riding info and etiquette

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Hi All,

The guys riding in the Brisk Paced groups have been training all winter and the groups are going to be extremely fast this year - which is great

However, we still want to bring new riders into the group and have them come out repeatedly
- We do not not want to blow their legs off in the 1st ride and then discourage them from returning

So here's the approach that I need you to adhere to... we can adjust if needed, but let's give this a shot 1st..
This applies to the...

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Region reviewing road standards for rural cyclists

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Hi All,

A 2 m curb lane for cyclists? That would be great!

Check out the article here

Here are the key lines:


“Hugging the curb and keeping out of the way of automobiles is a dangerous cycling strategy,” the plan noted.

Since that plan was released, Halton has had a policy to pave one metre of the shoulder on rural Regional roads when it comes time to upgrade them, the purpose being to give cyclists a place to ride and to keep maintenance costs down.

However, Zamojc, who took...

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