I love to see a story like this!  I wish all cities and towns were considered bicycle friendly.

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The League of American Bicyclists gave Spartanburg a bronze designation as a bicycle friendly community on Tuesday. Partners for Active Living had a goal three years ago to establish the city as a bicycle friendly community by 2007. Here, L-R, Ralph Paquin, of Spartanburg ; Mark Janes, of Greer; and Andrew Danfy, of Spartanburg prepare to start the ride.

The League of American Bicyclists presented the city of Spartanburg with a bronze designation as a Bicycle Friendly Community this morning. Spartanburg is the first city in the state to receive the designation and one of only seven across the United States to be named a Bicycling Friendly Community this year.

Partners for Active Living had the goal of receiving the designation this year when it began campaigning to make the city more conducive to bicycling in 2004. Since then, bike lanes have been marked along various roadways, bike racks are available downtown, a bike lending program has been initiated and educational programs aimed at educating the public about safe ways to bike are available.

The city received an honorable mention from the League last year.

Now, if we can just keep the dogs from chasing us while on our bikes!!!!

~lisa

The Holiday Session information is finally available!  Please view my website and look under "mini-sessions" for details.  Locations and dates will be announced this coming up week.  These sessions are not designed to subsitute a full session.  Mini-sessions will allow enough time to capture the unique personality of your family to use for both prints and holiday cards.  In case of inclement weather, rain dates will be available.  The deadline for ordering holiday cards is November 15th.  Stay tuned for the 2007 holiday card collection which will be shown on a slideshow and posted on my blog, just like last year. 

~lisa