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Bike to Work Week: May 12 - 17. Kick it off at Sugar Bottom Bikes!
North Liberty RAGBRAI® Ride Right committee is joining the cities of Iowa City and Coralville to promote Johnson County’s “Bike to Work” week from May 12 through May 17.
Those who ride their bicycles to work can stop at Sugar Bottom Bikes, 325 N. Front St. in North Liberty, for free coffee and donuts on Wednesday, May 14 from 6-9 a.m. Learn more about Bike to Work Week at www.cicbikeweek.org.
Pirates of
the Corridor t-shirts coming soon
The official Pirates of the Corridor t-shirts will be available by May
23. Check back to this site for ordering information in a couple of weeks. These official shirts may get you weekly discounts at area businesses, and they look really cool!
Businesses:
participate in t-shirt Fridays!
Help us promote North Liberty's July 24 RAGBRAI overnight stop, and get a
little free publicity for your business, too.
As a North Liberty business person, you are invited to participate in
RAGBRAI T-shirt Fridays.
FIRST, decide what small perk you want to offer to any patron wearing the
official "Pirates of the Corridor" T-shirt into your place of business.
(For example, free drink with meal purchase? free samples? a
buy-one-get-one-free item? a free checkbook cover? Anything you decide is
great!)
SECOND, designate the Fridays your business will participate between now
and July 24. (You can choose to participate every Friday, or just certain
Fridays.)
THIRD, notify the North Liberty Leader with your promotion, the location
of the business where the promotion will take place, and the Friday date(s)
you wish to participate. Email Lori Lindner at lori@southslope.net or call
665-2199.
THEN, your promotion will be listed AT NO CHARGE in the North Liberty
Leader each week, and on the North Liberty RAGBRAI web page. The official
North Liberty RAGBRAI T-shirts will go on sale to the general public by
May 23. Responses due May 19! T-shirt Fridays can begin May 25.
Please include your contact name/phone in case the newspaper has questions
about your promotion before publication. Thanks for supporting the
community's RAGBRAI event.
Provide
Housing for RAGBRAI riders
If you are willing to open your
home or your yard/driveway to RAGBRAI riders and/or support personnel,
please fill out the PDF form here: http://www.northlibertyiowa.org/ragbrai/housing_host.pdf (please note this form must be printed out and sent in, or emailed
- it cannot be submitted online without an email client).
All hands on deck!
Pirates of the Corridor needed to keep the Port of North Liberty tiptop!
Volunteers are needed in all areas but specifically to help KEEP North
Liberty Beautiful!! We need over 70 volunteers for the clean up crew, as
well as 125 at the beverage garden and entertainment venues 125 with
campgrounds to direct riders and support vehicles and 130 with the shuttle
service. We also need as many people as possible to welcome and send off
riders both the day of and the day after the event! Shifts are roughly 2
hours long so you can still partake in the fun, including riding. Contact
Katie Colony as soon as possible with any questions or for a volunteer
form at 626-6091 or you can register online on the VOLUNTEER page.
*If you are aware of any groups looking for some service projects this is
a perfect opportunity! Please give me a call with their contact info!
Warm-up for entertainment will be the Cedar Island Band
North Liberty’s RAGBRAI® Entertainment committee has just announced one of the acts that will be entertaining thousands during RAGBRAI’s overnight stop in North Liberty.
The Cedar Island Band will take the stage from 7 to 9 p.m. on July 24, 2008, as a warm-up act for the main entertainment.
Based out of Cedar Rapids, the Cedar Island Band is one of the premier Jimmy Buffet cover bands in the Midwest.
The six-piece band is comprised of Doug Rassler, Jeff Clark, Jim “Buzzy” Gross, Jason Wright, Joe Coffey and Chris Burgess, with an occasional visit from original band member Tyler Johnston. They describe their music as a “blend of Carribean, country and rock.”
Cedar Island Band seemed a natural fit for the event, given North Liberty’s RAGBRAI theme, “Pirates of the Corridor,” said Entertainment Committee chair Peg Fraser.
“The most important considerations made by the Entertainment Committee were to have a warm-up band that would fire up and entertain the Ragbrai participants, community and volunteers, have a repertoire of songs that worked well with North Liberty’s Ragbrai theme, and finally, were local to the community,” said Fraser. “The Cedar Island band stands out in all three areas.” The committee has not yet secured a headline act for the event.
For more information about Cedar Island Band, visit the band’s website at www.cedarislandband.net.
Official
North Liberty RAGBRAI logo announced
The North Liberty RAGBRAI®
committee revealed the winner of the town's logo design today during a
fundraising luncheon at South Slope Telecommunications' community center
in North Liberty.
The RAGBRAI committee
invited area residents to submit design ideas to promote the town's theme
of "Pirates of the Corridor." In three weeks, 28 designs were submitted.
"We received a wide
range of designs, everything from pencil drawings to computer-generated,
professionally created logos," said North Liberty Publicity Chair Lori
Lindner. "We had participants as young as six years of age create
wonderful artwork to represent our theme."
A group of 11 people,
representing North Liberty's RAGBRAI Advisory Board and the Executive,
Publicity and Hospitality committees gathered on April 1 to review the
designs and hold a voting process.
"We conducted two
rounds of voting and came down to a three-way tie before the deciding vote
was cast. It was a tough task to choose just one," Lindner said.
The winning design was
created by 29-year-old Will Grant of Iowa City. Grant is a graphic
designer for J. Lloyd International of Cedar Rapids. He also does
freelance work and creates comic books with Candle Light Press. View some
of Grant's work at www.candlelightpress.com.
Grant said he entered
the contest because the pirate theme seemed to fit with his artistic
style, which "tends to emphasize the weird side of life," he remarked. The
logo will appear on signs, T-shirts and other materials throughout the
summer and on July 24 to promote North Liberty RAGBRAI events.
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