Cincinnati Mayor to Receive Iron Girl Cyclist

For Immediate release May 28, 2005

Cincinnati Mayor to Receive Cross-Country Cyclist On Tuesday

National Bicycle Greenway (NBG) Scout/Ambassador Concetta Curtis will stop
at Cincinnati City Hall (8th and Plum Streets) at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May
31 to receive a proclamation from Cincinnati Mayor Charlie Luken.

Curtis is riding from Miami to San Francisco to rally support for NBG's plan
to interconnect America's population centers with a network of bikeable
roads and paths.

Representatives from the Ohio Bicycle Federation, Cincinnati Cycle Club and
the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments will also be on
hand to greet Curtis.

More info: http://bikeroute.com
and
http://www.bikeroute.com/ConcettaCurtis

Chuck Smith
Chair, Ohio Bicycle Federation
Share the Road License Plate Now Available
Visit your Deputy Registrar or go to oplates.com
chuck@ohiobike.org

Columbus Mayor to Receive Iron Girl Cyclist

For Immediate release Lelia Cady
5/25/05 (614) 645-8509

Columbus Mayor to Receive Iron Girl Cyclist

Columbus Mayor, Michael Coleman, will be at Columbus City Hall at 11 AM, Thursday, May 26 to receive NBG Scout, Concetta Curtis. Concetta is on her way to San Francisco from Miami and her send off from Mayor Manny Diaz there. Already blessed by nine other Mayors, Concetta, a broken back survivor, is a part of the National Bicycle Greenway's (NBG) 4th annual National Mayors' Ride which will visit 52 big cities this year. In Columbus, she will also be greeted by internationally acclaimed author and motivational public speaker Rosemarie Rosetti. A Columbus resident, Rosemarie has inspired audiences all over the the nation since a falling tree paralyzed her while biking on a trail in Granville, OH seven years agp.

Columbus resident, and veteran NBG Scout, Fred Kirchner, will also be on hand with his recently published book of bicycle poetry. He will ride with Concetta to Cincinnati NBG Day. Adding encouragement to their ride west will be Race Across America iron man Jeff Stephens, Columbus city council person, Mary Ellen O'Shaugnessey, officials from Columbus Greenways and cyclists from throughout the city.

Columbus has been chosen for the first wave of key anchor cities in the NBG's plan to interconnect America's population centers with a network of safe bikeable roads and paths. And to show why this is so, Columbus will be flexing just some of the bicycle muscle it has to show. More info: bikeroute.com