Site Navigation

News Sections

Your Account

Display Options

The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

Alice B. Toeclips Awardees

©

Brita Johnson writes "Statewide Bicycle Advocacy Organization Announces Annual Awards of Individuals Across Oregon On Saturday, March 5th, over 600 cyclists from around the region gathered at the 11th Annual Alice B. Toeclips Awards Party and Auction to recognize the efforts of individuals who have worked to make their communities safer, better, more pleasant places to ride a bicycle.

This year’s Alice B. Toeclips Award winners included: State Representative Jackie Dingfelder (D-Portland) for her support over the years, including her work in helping pass two bills during the 2005 legislature, expanding the rights of bicyclists and setting the framework for Oregon’s Safe Routes to School efforts.

Buy Local

Holman's Bar and Grill

Holman’s has been a neighborhood fixture since the 1930’s. Over the years, more...

* Medford’s Eileen Adee for her work advocating for an 18-mile trail connecting five southern Oregon communities, work with kids in her neighborhood giving them helmets and teaching bike safety. At 73-years old, Eileen has used her bike as her main transportation for over 40 years.
* Portland’s Jeff Bernards, a community activist who founded and leads a “Get Lit!” program that hands out bicycle lights to cyclists who lack them. Over the past three years, the program has distributed over 1000 lights, and has inspired a similar effort on the part of the Portland Police force.
* Lillie Fitzpatrick of Southwest Portland for her leadership in Portland’s Safe Routes to School efforts, including serving as a team leader at Bridlemile Elementary School and helping with “walking school buses.”
* Albany’s Jim Lawrence for his leadership with Bike Safety Education classes in Albany. Over 300 kids in Albany received the BTA’s comprehensive ten-hour class last year, and Jim attended each class, as well as raising the funds needed to make the classes happen.
* Darren Pennington of the Providence Portland Medical Center, for his success in encouraging bike commuters, and increasing the number and frequency of bike commuters, at a large regional employer.
* Amy Wantulok of the Hollywood Bike Gallery store (Portland) for her work in getting women on bikes and into jobs in the bike industry, leading rides and workshops and mentoring interested women.
* The winners were chosen from 46 nominees from across Oregon, from Bend to Lake Oswego, Portland to Klamath Falls.

The Alice Awards are presented annually by the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) to recognize those whose work has promoted the use of bicycles and increased the livability of our communities. The BTA is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, working to create safe, sane and sustainable communities by making bicycling safer, more convenient and more accessible. For more information, see www.bta4bikes.org."
on this story