This year’s Annual Community & Schools BBQ broke all previous records with over 2200 people served. Students and families from six Eastside schools – Edison, Waite Park, Marcy Open, Sheridan, Pillsbury, and Northeast Middle – as well as First Ward residents, businesses, and firefighters enjoyed a fun-filled afternoon and evening in the Edison High School parking lot.
Some highlights of this year’s festivities:
- Recovery Bike was on hand with their pedal-propelled Mobile Command & Repair Module, offering free bike repairs.
- Bike.Walk.Move. offered bike safety workshops, with prizes and giveaways.
- Edison High School introduced ZAP, a solar-powered system that allows students to track miles biked, and also set up their perennially popular “blender bike”.
- Tap Minneapolis provided all the drinking water for the event.
Volunteers for the event included MPS board members Jenny Arneson, Jill Davis, Rebecca Gagnon and Carla Bates; MPS Superintendent Bernadeia Johnson, as well as Rick Mills, Mark Bonine and Michael Thomas from District headquarters; State Senator Kari Dziedzic; State Rep Diane Loeffler; Mpls Park Board Commissioner Liz Wielinski; Council Member Kevin Reich; and Mark Latosky, president of Firefighters Local 82, along with a strong contingent of firefighters.
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