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Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on November 7, 2011 at 6:30pm

 

Wasss it da mini Bearssss an' a full size Ditka, to be dat clossssse?

Kevin C said:

Bears won 30-24.

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Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on November 8, 2011 at 1:25pm

http://www.activetrans.org/blog/rbroussard/member-meeting-recap-wis...

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Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on November 8, 2011 at 2:10pm

I'll add: John Greenfield sat near me and took many pictures, so I wouldn't be surprised if a Grid recap is in the works.  But, until then, my take: quite a few people attended the meeting in a room possibly a bit too big--the room could easily have held 500, so there was a lot of space between the seated.  A number of interesting booths out in the lobby showed a bike plan for Mt. Prospect, the work of the Bicycle Ambassadors (with many pamphlets to take away), a booth demonstrating some of the past year's ATA projects/accomplishments and a booth demonstrating a ped/bike/car educational project that is taken to elementary schools.  Around 6:30, after a very tasty turkey wrap, iced tea and cookie (there was a veggie wrap available as well), the program began.  The awards for Julie, Alderman Colon and the Cook County Department of Public Health were nice highlights.  Several ATA staffers gave quick overviews on various things ATA worked on this year.  There was a somewhat self-congratulatory message throughout the meeting, but that's precisely what this meeting is all about: the ATA staff telling us members all the wonderful things they've done over the past year.  In that context, there are only successes, no failures.  There was a quick vote for three new board members: I had never heard of any of them, but I voted for all three--I believe the vote ultimately was unanimous.  I figure that if these three are people the staff wants to be directed by, why not, some vetting process must have gone on and I don't have to deal with the ATA board in any way, the staff does.  Jerome McDonnell's keynote speech was a hoot, revolving mostly about his experience being beaten in a bike to work competition by the Old Town School of Folk Music previously and by the Center for Neighborhood Technology this year.  If either the Old Town School or CNT mysteriously go up in flames some night soon--well, I'd check WBEZ for half-used matches, that's all I can say.  The meeting closed with Ron Burke taking quite a few random questions from the audience, which I found refreshing and hope they make this a feature for future yearly meetings.  The entire crowd then got up on stage for a group photo before we headed on home.

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Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on November 9, 2011 at 3:59am

http://gridchicago.com/2011/wbez%e2%80%99s-jerome-mcdonnell-talks-b...

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