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Sunday November 22nd

Event: Bike Ride Through Audubon Zoo (kids) (info from Audobon Zoo website)

Hosts: Audubon Zoo

Time: 8:00am sign in; 8:30am ride will start. 9:30am ride over! (Zoo opens at 10am)

Location: 6500 Magazine Street (map), Audubon Tea Room entrance

Cost: $4 per bike (Children in Safety seats or pulled in bike trailers free)

Info: Early morning bike-ride through the Audubon Zoo for children. Register ahead of time with Monica Pasos at Audubon Zoo, so you can be one of the 50 bikes to ride through. The ride will last one hour, with several stops to see the animals along the way, along with a break at the Swamp. Be sure to wear a helmet for safety!

This is a great opportunity to get into Audubon Zoo before it opens when it's quiet, animals are out, and the crowds have not yet arrived. When the ride is over, you can go back to the zoo a little longer to sight-see some of the animals you missed, or browse the shops. ($4 does not give you re-admission to the zoo after the ride. You will have to pay again if you aren't already an Audubon Nature Institute member). Afterwards, it's only a short trip up to Carrollton Avenue, where you're then, not far from the 2009 Po Boy Festival which kicks off on Oak Street at 11am!

Limit of 50 bikes.

School Service Coordinator

Audubon Zoo

6500 Magazine St.

New Orleans,LA 70118

504-212-5378 (office)

mpasos@auduboninstitute.org

Event: Green Ride through New Orleans

Hosts: Crescent City Cyclists

Location: NOMA at City Park

Time: 9:00am – 12:00pm

Info: Join the CCC for a green ride of about 15 miles at a pace of 10 – 12 mph to visit nine green places in New Orleans.

Event: Pontilly Mapping Ride

Hosts: NolaCycle & MBC & Acorns of Hope

(Check out NolaCycle maps at: http://nolacyclemaps.blogspot.com/)

Location: Meet at Rome Park Playground (Robert E. Lee and St. Roch) (map)

Time: 10 am to 12 pm

Info: Help complete NolaCycle’s mapping project while enjoying a ride in Pontilly. NolaCycle is a grassroots organization that recently joined forces with the Metro Bicycle Coalition. Led by Lauren Sullivan, the group has ridden all over New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to grade the roads of the city by width, quality, and speed of motor vehicles. You'll be given a small quadrant map and a few markers so you and your team can graphically illustrate block-by-block what the conditions of the roads are from a cyclist's perspective. When this data is completely collected, a GIS map will be created and distributed showing the best blocks to ride on, in order to inform a cyclist's route across the city. What's better is that Acorns of Hope, an organization set out to replant trees along coastal Louisiana after Hurricane Rita, will be making their annual bike ride to plant trees, and end up in New Orleans on this day to help with the mapping. We welcome our tree-planting-cousins from Southwest Louisiana, and are glad they can be here to help make New Orleans a more sustainable city. We're especially excited that they're biking the whole way here!

Event: BBQ and Bike Polo

Host: Metro Bicycle Coalition & N.O. Bike Polo

Location: Parking Lot at Canal and Villere (map)

Time: 10am to 6 pm

Info: Chow on some BBQ while watching Bike Polo. This will be the end of the internationally attended New Orleans Bike Polo Tournament. Come by, have some food (again, all omnivores, carnivores, and herbivores are welcome), and see which teams come out on top.

Event: Bike Drawing & Rack Installations and Sponsorships

Host: Where Ya' Rack?

Location: Po Boy Festival (website)

Time: 11am to 6 pm

Info: Where Ya' Rack? is the latest Young Leadership Council project to come out of the Leadership Development Series in the fall of 2008. The purpose of the project is to have plentiful, safe and secure bike parking installed all over New Orleans. There will be a raffle for a bike at the Po Boy Festival, as well as information for individuals and businesses to learn how to sponsor one or more racks for installation, and tell us where it is you live, work, and play, so Where Ya' Rack? can install racks where demand is greatest.