The finishing touches are still being applied to Flossmoor’s renovated downtown streetscape, but the trees were planted on Oct. 31, so the project is, for practical purposes, done. It looks to me like a thing of beauty. I’m not talking about aesthetics. Probably best to wait until the trees and[Read More…]
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GoodSpeed to celebrate 15 years of keeping Homewood rolling
GoodSpeed Cycles owner Graham Bolkema will celebrate his shop’s 15-year anniversary May 24 with family, friends, bike enthusiasts, and anyone who stops by the store at 2125 W. 183rd St. in Homewood that day. To mark the store’s opening in 2010, Graham and his operations manager, Steve Buchtel, are organizing[Read More…]
Bicycle safety, community concern discussed at a GoodSpeed Happy Hour event
Bicycle advocates Jane Healy and Elizabeth Adamczyk spoke at GoodSpeed Bicycles to community cyclists Feb. 15 about bicycle safety, raising kids as cyclists and how parents can ride bicycles to school with their kids. Angela Thomas, co-owner of Thomas’ Photogenic Services and the mother of a preschooler at Willow School, raised her[Read More…]
Nate Steiner rides for adventure on community paths, H-F park district trails
Working as a delivery driver for Nestle Water, Nate Steiner of Homewood gets plenty of exercise lugging 5-gallon water bottles into homes and businesses. So for him, riding a bike isn’t about intensity or distance, but a pursuit of adventure and community connection.
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