Wrangler Bike Safety Rodeo

The Wrangler Bike Safety Rodeo is a fun, interactive event that teaches basic safety skills, providing a foundation for riding independently in our community.

Date: September 24th, 2011

Time:
9:00-11:00 (Rodeo) Kids and parents learn about bicycle maintenance, Texas bike laws, and safe biking practices

11:00-12:00 (Neighborhood Roll) Kids and parents apply their learning on a supervised neighborhood ride (20 persons per group).

Location: Roscoe-Wilson Elementary School Playground and Tech Terrace neighborhood (for the Neighborhood Roll.)

Participants: Roscoe-Wilson Elementary students and their families

Requirements: Bring your bike and helmet and bike riding clothes. Drinks and snacks provided. Participants must sign a Release Form http://www.biketexas.org/en/component/docman/doc_download/80-release-form-template

Riders and families will learn, as they go through the course (maybe even more than once) the basics of: bike rules, helmet fitting, bike maintenance, basic riding skills and decision making on a course. Riders can then apply what they’ve learned on a supervised neighborhood roll. In groups of 20 or so (3 leaders per group on an identified course) students will use their new skills.

Back To School

Roscoe Wilson Elementary and Hutch Middle School hold their back to school nights this Thursday August 18th.

August Yards Of The Month

2608 32nd Street

Matt Gaiser

2621 32nd Street

Judith Abernathy

3317 19th Street

Yolanda and Dana Palmer

A Braking News Story

Neighborhood resident John Winker captured these images of mayhem caused by an idiot in red Ford  who wove a path of destruction in down Boston around noon on Friday.  The fool ran down a fence on the SE corner of 33rd and Boston; took out the planter at the SE corner of 26th and Boston (where students wait for the trolley!); barrelled east on 26th with a flat tire and finally stopped when he was nailed by a white Ford pickup. Both drivers were taken to the hospital by ambulence.  No word on their conditions.    You never know where these dummies will surface.  Second hand reports indicate the driver of the red truck might have been drinking.  Makes me think twice about parking on the street.

The fence taken out at 33rd and Boston

 The planter at 26th and Boston

The alleged drunk driving vehicle- note it came to rest dangerously close to a daycare center.

This driver was minding his own business on University when the red truck pulled out in front of him. 

UNIT represented in Fourth on Broadway Parade

The Tech Terrace-UNIT mowers made their annual appearance in the Fourth on Broadway Parade.  They nicely represented the neighborhood taking third place in their division.