The first annual “Tour de Newton” is coming on Oct 6 as part of Newton Bike-Walk Week. The Tour will be an approx 25 mile ride through the 14 villages of Newton (13 + Village 14).
The ride will start simultaneously in all 13 villages and proceed in a one way circuit through the city, hitting each village center along the way. At each village, you’ll stop and pick up a unique village badge. Collect the whole set and something good will happen – we’ll soon figure out exactly what that will be.
At the moment, we’re looking for volunteers in each of the villages to help out in various capacities. For each village, we’ll need:
* Someone to design a village badge.
* Someone to be the village representative and hand out badges to riders as they come through.
* Two riders from each village to accompany the riders that start the ride in that village.
If you might be game for any one of these roles, please email at [email protected] and let me know.
We definitely want Village14 to figure into the event in some unique way. One possible idea is to have a Village 14 stop along the way where your photo would get snapped and posted on Village 14. If you’ve got other or better ideas, post them below.
I gave my bike away a year ago and am now kind of regretting it.
Jerry, sign me up for any role in Auburndale – but I sure hope to get to do the ride too.
Bob – I’m sure we can round up a bike for you.
HI Jerry,
I’m in! And I have a bike. (Nonantum).
I’ll help organize on behalf of Waban, but Oct 6-8 is the *only* time this fall where I have to be away from Newton. Would love to have ridden.
I’m in from Newton Corner. Doug Haslam had a couple of good ideas for the logo, but maybe the old fire station bell tower hidden by the westbound entrance to the Pike? Iconic are gone – Mac’s Smoke Shop, Paramount Theater, Sklar’s (then HiLo), Newton Corner Bowl. I could go on…
Great! It looks like Village 14 folks will be represented. We’ll get back toyou soon with more details after the next plannig meeting this week.
@Max. The old fire station bell tower would make a great logo. I miss a lot of the former landmarks you described in Newton Corner before the Mass Pike ripped the heart out of it and made a dysfunctional traffic pattern that is a nightmare for pedestrians and sane drivers. A recurring problem for many villages like Newton Corner is that what replaced it includes chain business establishments, banks, beauty parlors and nail salons that are more geared to a general public than to residents of the village itself.