International Bike and Walk to School Day is this October 6. If you would like to get your community and your child's school involved, click here for more info. If you need more information on how to teach your child or students to bike safely, please refer to the League's kids education program.

The League announced 18 new Bicycle Friendly Communities (BFC) and eight renewing BFCs at the Pro Walk/Pro Bike Conference on September 15. This round of awards was exciting because communities that won and renewed implemented past feedback and improved their cities. See the complete list of BFCs here.

The League announced 63 new Bicycle Friendly Businesses (BFB) and eight renewing BFBs on September 23 at Interbike during the International Mountain Biking Association (IMBA) Industry Breakfast. This round of awards was especially noteworthy because of the number of awardees -- a 45 percent increase from last round -- and because of the amount of local governments who applied for a BFB designation. We awarded three local governments the BFB designation - Bloomington City Hall, Ind.; Arlington County Government, Va.; and the City of Fayetteville, Ark. See the complete list of BFBs here.

The League's National Bike Summit will be March 8-10, 2011 in Washington D.C. We are still downtown but have changed to a larger venue -- the Grand Hyatt -- to support our growing group of attendees. Registration is now open, along with sponsorship opportunities. Contact Walt at walter@bikeleague.org if you need further information.

Grand Teton National Park is about to set an unfortunate precedent in trail design in our National Park system by needlessly compromising a potentially great trail project. Our local affiliate out in Jackson Hole, Wyo., Friends of Pathways, has asked for a national response to the location of a trail too close to the major high-speed road running through the park. Please read more about the issue here or go straight to the online petition here.

The second in our new series of Club Leadership webinars to support bike club leadership is next Tuesday, October 5 at 8pm EST. Dan Ehrmann of Club Express; Mary Derks, past president of the Twin Cities Bicycling Club; and Ron Puett, Kansas City Bicycle Club will lead the discussion. Find out more and register!

Bikes Belong is one of the greatest supporters of the League, and we thank you for responding to our e-mail last week asking for your support for peopleforbikes.org. If you didn't see the e-mail or need a reminder, at the 2010 Bike Summit Bikes Belong launched their new campaign People for Bikes to unite one million voices to improve bicycling in the United States. We encourage you to sign the pledge and raise your voice in support of bicycling.

The national bicycle trade show Interbike has announced a date and location move for 2011. It will be moving to August 8-12 in Anaheim, Calif. The League just returned from the 2010 Interbike show and  successfully promoted the National Bike Summit to attendees, along with our new Dealer Membership program and membership rates.