Tour of the Wichitas…..Friends of the Trail

Hello everyone!

We will have our next meeting on July 2nd, at the regular place, 1609 NW Euclid at 7 pm. I have asked Paul Fisher, who is working with the County Commisssioners on the Trail from Cache to the Wildlife Refuge to come and give us a status report.

I was just on the phone with Rick Johnson who is with the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, and he let me know that our Grant for the bike trail in the amount of $400,000 has been awarded. We have asked Doug Tenent with Jacobs Consulting to also give a report on their review of the Bike Trail which has been ordered by our City Planner, Rich Roglaski. Now that the money is in place we would hope that this can be done quickly and we could get started on the trail. We will invite Andy Howard who was one of the original designers of the trail to be present also.

Also, we want to get started on our next Tour of the Wichitas. This time we’d like to use a different approach. That is to organize the tour around several committees, each to be responsible for a certain segment of the ride. For example, a committee for the actural ride, rest stops, etc. One for Marketing and another for sponsors. It seems that if we get started this far ahead of time that we could leverage our efforts and make a super ride next year. To try to get out of the rain we have decided to have the ride on June 12th of 2010.

Hope to see you then!

Lon Parks, Secretary