Apr 30, 2012 | Cycling, Cycling Event, Featured, Health & Well-Being
WABI Burien’s Bike SaFaRis – “Safe Family Rides” – are monthly bike rides for young riders and parents, as well as those without children, that simply want to increase their cycling skills. There have been little ones riding in...
Apr 30, 2012 | Art Walks, Health & Well-Being, Other Local Walks, Walking, Walking Event
Come and celebrate Art Education Month! This Thursday, May 3rd, is the Student Art Walk in Downtown Burien, 5:00-8:00pm, along SW 152nd from 4th-10th SW. Performances, art in the businesses…don’t miss it! FOR INFO: www.BurienParks.net • 206-988-3700 CLICK HERE FOR...
Apr 23, 2012 | Other Local Walks, Walking, Walking Event
CROP Hunger Walks help children and families worldwide – and right here in the U.S. – to have food for today, while building for a better tomorrow. Our local efforts are making a huge difference… and you are part of it! Date: May 6, 2012 Location: Des Moines...
Apr 19, 2012 | Art Walks, Bike/Ped Advocacy, Cycling, Cycling Resources, Health & Well-Being, Parks & Trails, Walk-n-Talk, Walking
We’re on a roll! We’re up and running (or walking, at least). We, at WABI Burien, made our official announcement today letting the local world know that we’re stirring things up to create a rich walk/bike community. We sent out our Press Release and...
Apr 19, 2012 | Bike/Ped Advocacy, Cycling, Cycling Resources, Health & Well-Being
From PeopleForBikes.org here’s a feel-good, celebratory video (below) about how bikes make life better!
Apr 19, 2012 | Bike/Ped Advocacy, Cycling, Cycling Resources, Health & Well-Being
This video, from Cascade Bicycle Club, brings a smile about the joy of being on two wheels:
Apr 19, 2012 | Cycling
This just in from “Kidical Mass”, a fun, safe, easy-going, and law-abiding family bike ride for kids of all ages. It started circa 2008 in Eugene, Oregon, and has since spread to other bikey burgs, like Seattle! “In time for Pedalers’ Fair this...
Apr 19, 2012 | Cycling, Featured
The snazzy Burien Bike Day Poster is complete and ready to post around town. If you’d like to print one of your very own, to hang in your store window, office or home, CLICK HERE (or on the image below) to download the 8.5 x 11″ size PDF.
Apr 16, 2012 | Featured, Health & Well-Being, Parks & Trails, Walking
Today, under sunny, blue skies, 34 foragers showed up at Seahurst Beach for the Urban Foraging Walk organized by Sustainable Burien. We browsed for edibles between the shore and the woods with master forager, Melany Vorass and hadn’t gone even two feet before...
Apr 15, 2012 | Featured, Health & Well-Being
On Saturday, April 28, from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., the Y is celebrating ‘Healthy Kids Day®,’ a national initiative of the YMCA to improve the health and well-being of kids. More than 1,900 YMCA’s across the country are taking part in the celebration with free community...
Apr 12, 2012 | Cycling, Featured, Health & Well-Being
As the days start to warm (and dry) up, don’t you just want to get out on your bike and ride around the neighborhood? Maybe take your two wheels up to get groceries instead of hopping in the car? Grab family and friends and take a rolling stroll? Cycle up to the...
Apr 11, 2012 | Bike/Ped Advocacy, City of Burien
IMPORTANT COUNCIL MEETING APRIL 16! Since May, 2011 a transportation consultant and the Transportation Master Plan Advisory Committee (TMPAC) have been working on an analysis of the Burien’s transportation system and conducting a review of existing Comprehensive Plan...
Apr 11, 2012 | Bike/Ped Advocacy, Cycling, Cycling Resources, Featured
Dear Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) and interested parties: The Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) needs your help to get this message to as many bicyclists as possible. Starting May 1st, PSRC is asking bicyclists to record all their bicycle trips...
Apr 11, 2012 | Bike/Ped Advocacy, Cycling, Cycling Resources
HEALTHY KING COUNTY: Communities Putting Prevention to Work. Meeting will feature a presentation on Safe Routes to School from Feet First, City of Seattle School Traffic Safety Committee and King County Food & Fitness Initiative. Please review the BPAC April...
Apr 5, 2012 | Art Walks, Featured, Walking
Burien Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services will be celebrating Art Education Month by showcasing Art by Highline School District Students in a Student Art Walk from 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 3. “Visit downtown Burien on Thursday, May 3rd, from 5 – 8pm to...
Apr 4, 2012 | Parks & Trails, Walking
Sustainable Burien will be holding a free ‘Urban Foraging Walk’ through Seahurst Park from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 15. “Guests will learn how to identify some of the most common edible weeds and wild foods available in the city,” reads an announcement. “Weeds...
Apr 1, 2012 | Featured, Walk-n-Talk, Walking
We had said “rain or shine” and we had both! We huddled against the weather and waited to see if other walkers would show up. In all, six intrepid “April Fools” showed up with stormy skies to the south, bundled for April’s Walk-n-Talk...
Mar 29, 2012 | Bike/Ped Advocacy, City of Burien, Cycling, Walking
The City of Burien on Wednesday (March 28) released a draft Transportation Master Plan, which they’ve made available for downloading here (PDF file). “Since May, 2011 a transportation consultant and the Transportation Master Plan Advisory Committee (TMPAC) have been...
Mar 28, 2012 | Featured, Parks & Trails, Uncategorized, Walk-n-Talk, Walking
No fooling, we may have the next Walk-n-Talk in the midst of April Showers. What a great time to test out the reliability of rain slickers and galoshes. (Hmm?) Sunday, April 1st, we’ll meet up on the grassy knoll at Burien Town Square for our 9th monthly...
Mar 28, 2012 | Bike/Ped Advocacy, City of Burien, Cycling, Cycling Resources, Parks & Trails, Walking
A new Parks and Trails Map is now available for free to the public at Burien City Hall. The map includes parks and trails in Burien, Des Moines, Normandy Park, Renton, SeaTac and Tukwila. Parks and trails in adjacent communities including parts of Newcastle, Bellevue,...
