Events and Rides in 2005
Jan – New Year meeting – tree planting Newburn ramp NCN72
Feb - up 14 down 72- removed major obstruction from cycle path
March – clean up day NCN72 Howdon Lane
April – Gateshead Flower Show display stand –Ranger training day Newcastle NCN 14 reccy ride
May - Green festival Sustrans display stand – YHA Edmundbyers weekend – ride to Corbridge - manholes
June – NCN72 signing Newburn - Bike Week rides ,Rowlands Gill – Gateshead Civic Centre display stand - Blyth to WB marshalling and display at lighthouse
July - MacMillan Cancer ride HCW -Sustrans display stand at Tall Ships event Quayside and then Gateshead flower show
Aug – RQ to Holywell RCR10 NCN1 – Great North Bike Ride
Sept – tidy up Newburn Scotswood NCN72 – official opening of the new Willington Gut bridge on HCW - on location with Dutch TV Crew - putting up Finials on NCN signposts.
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1st Biennial National Cycle Network Awards for Excellence
Voluntary Rangers
Winner: Doug Ridgway
The overall integrity of the Network has come to rely on an extraordinary group of 1,500 Voluntary Rangers, who each act as additional eyes, ears and hands for the local council and Sustrans on their adoptive sections.
The awards were presented to Doug Ridgway from Newcastle, and David Cuffwright from Cornwall as outstanding representatives of this whole group.
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Oct – NCN72 HCW clean up – LR meeting– Sustrans display stand at Sustainable Lifestyle Expo Inland Revenue Longbenton - Repaired Millennium Milepost at St. Peters
Nov – Liaison ranger convention and ride (Liverpool) – NCN72 clean up Newburn
Dec - Doug's CSV award - STARs Xmas gathering - ride Swing Bridge – Scotswood
Over last 12 months also had presence at Cycle Forums at NT / NCC / GMBC/ Hadrian’s Wall partnership- cycling steering group
2005 has been another successful year for STARS
Thanks to all the rangers within the Tyne area, the Newcastle and Stanley Sustrans staff, long suffering husbands, wives and partners for all your efforts.
More to come in 2006……………..watch this space……………
Report by Phil Goldbaltt
