Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew Visit for Cobb County
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Subaru/IMBA
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Club Care Program
Building a community around a common goal
Date: Thursday, Feb. 23rd, 2012
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Subaru of Kennesaw; 905 Ernest Barrett Parkway, Kennesaw, GA 30144
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Overview: A key element of building sustainable trails is ensuring that there will be a community committed to the trails’ existence. The Club Care Presentation is designed to teach advocates and volunteers how to effectively organize in order to accomplish club goals. Based on the Crews’ experience teaching hundreds of volunteer groups how build better trails through grassroots organization and advocacy, they will share techniques that advocacy organizations across the country have used to reach goals, overcome challenges, improve land access and grow the mountain bike community. This presentation helps effective clubs learn what they could be doing even better (such as growing leadership base), as well as teaches developing clubs how to structure their organization, motivate existing members and attract new volunteers and members. Key topics: Building a community around a common goal, goal setting, increasing community participation in your club, cultivating new leadership, communications basics, events planning and marketing, tips and tricks for creating a strong and effective non-profit organization. Target audience: Active club members, board members, committee members, general members of the public interested in becoming club leaders. Presenters: A Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew will provide the presentation. This two person team travels year-round throughout the United States teaching sustainable trail building, recruiting community volunteers, and bringing together land managers, city officials and trail users. The International Mountain Bicycling Association is highly respected and recognized as an authority in sustainable trail building practices, low impact trail use, and volunteer recruitment. |
Better Living Through Trails Program
The economic, health and wellness benefits that trails bring to an area
Date: Friday, Feb. 24th, 2012
Time: 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Location: Ron Anderson Recreation Center, 3820 Macedonia Road, Powder Springs, GA 30127
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Overview:This one hour presentation explores the positive relationships between communities and their trail systems. Trails as community assets can improve quality of life and livability in a community and can attract significant tourism dollars in addition to increasing overall quality of life. With statistics and case studies, participants will learn how to turn a community trail system into a quality destination trail system and learn how to effectively market a trail system. Time is reserved at the end for questions and discussion.
Target audience: Public board members, elected officials, tourism bureau, chamber of commerce, media, school districts, health care professionals, local, state and federal land managers, mayoral office, state and federal representatives, local trail user groups, local outdoor recreation groups Presenters: Cobb County Parks, Recreation, Cultural Affairs Department has partnered with a Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew who will provide the presentation. This two person team travels year-round throughout the United States teaching sustainable trail building, recruiting community volunteers, and bringing together land managers, city officials and trail users. The International Mountain Bicycling Association is highly respected and recognized as an authority in sustainable trail building practices, low impact trail use, and volunteer recruitment. |
Trail Building School
How Sustainable Trails are Built
Date: Saturday, Feb. 24th, 2012
Time: 9:00am – 12:00pm, followed by Free Lunch at Noon and 1:00pm – 4:00pm Field Work
Location: Ward Recreation Center; 4845 Dallas Highway, Powder Springs, GA 30127
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Overview: IMBA’s Trail Building School teaches IMBA's philosophies and trains local volunteers and land managers on how to build and maintain sustainable singletrack. The school involves three hours in the classroom followed by about four hours in the field doing hands-on trail work and field instruction.) Participants are expected to come to both the classroom and field sessions on Saturday. But, if you can only come to one, go to the classroom session. General outline of the classroom presentation:
Target audience: Any trail user (bike, pedestrian, equestrian, etc.), People interested in or tasked with trail design, building and maintenance, such and land managers and city planners, Community service: those who oversee a community service program, those who need to complete a community service project, Anyone who would like to understand the elements for trail sustainability, Anyone who has to communicate the elements for trail sustainability, High school mountain biking teams and local scout troops (16 and older, please), University students (cycling teams, urban planners, parks and recreation majors, etc.) |
** On Sunday, Feb. 26th, 2012, we plan to end the visit with rides and activities at Allatoona Creek Park for all age groups and skill levels. Details on those are forthcoming. Make sure to watch the IMBA-SORBA Atlanta website, www.sorbaatlanta.org, and Facebook page for updates. The Allatoona Creek Park address is 5690 Old Stilesboro Rd. Acworth, GA 30101.
Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew Visit
Schedule of Events
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Thursday, 6:00pm – 7:00pm 7:00pm – 8:00pm |
Club Care Program Social |
Subaru of Kennesaw |
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Friday, 1:00pm – 3:00pm |
Better Living Through Trails Program |
Ron Anderson Recreation Center |
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Saturday, 1:00pm – 4:00pm |
Trail Building School |
Ward Recreation Center Allatoona Creek Park |
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Sunday, |
Group Bike Rides |
Allatoona Creek Park |
**To Register for this event, go to: www.imba.com/tcc/schedule. Choose the Acworth, GA event for SORBA Atlanta. This is a free event but registering will help us plan for space and food.
Make sure to watch this site, as well as the IMBA-SORBA Atlanta website, www.sorbaatlanta.org, and Facebook page for updates. We appreciate your participation!
If you are interested in assisting us with planning or have suggestions for a food vendor or other activities we can put on the calendar for this event, please contact Annabeth Rice at annabeth888@msn.com.