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Events calendar
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February 11
Met Council State of the Region 2013
February 15
Motivational Movement youth crew event
February 20
SPACC Public Affairs Series: Regional Transit
February 25
MN Bike Summit on Capitol Hill
February 26
Robert Street Transitway Open House
February 28
Robert Street Transitway Open House
March 6
Fifth Annual St. Paul Transportation Summit
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Cronkite's 1967 vision of 21st Century telework
Does this look like your telework space? Likely yours is more compact than what Walter Cronkite envisioned in this 1967 video. Watch
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Save the Date: Our 5th Annual St. Paul
Transportation Summit - Wednesday, March 6th
Mark your calendar. You're invited to our 5th Annual St. Paul Transportation Summit Wednesday, March 6th from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Science Museum of Minnesota.
Our annual gathering will feature presentations about transportation topics, programs and priorities that impact St. Paul and the region now and in the future. Join interested community members, business leaders, policy makers and transportation advocates for a free lunch, networking and conversation about topics you care about.
Save your seat. RSVP today!
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Frogtown Crew plans Motivational Movement event
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Mai Yang Xiong and MaiThao Xiong perform at the Frogtown program kick-off event last fall. Music will be a part of the Feb. 15th crew event.
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The Frogtown Neighborhoods Youth Crew is hosting Motivational Movement, their first community event, Friday, February 15th from 6 to 9 p.m. at Dunning Recreation Center in St. Paul. The event is a free community gathering that will include food, performances, games and activities focused on neighborhood safety. Join the crew promote safety and celebrate their neighborhood.
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Ramsey County employees get ZAPped for wellness
 Ramsey County has added ZAP Twin Cities to its selection of wellness program offerings for employees. County staff can choose to participate in the ZAP bike commuting program this year to qualify for a health incentive and save on their health care costs in 2014. They can choose the biking (ZAP) program from among other choices, like 10,000 steps, an online weight loss program, and phone coaching on specific health issues.
According to Human Resources Supervisor Sam Howell, the program requirement will be to bike 30 separate days between April and September and will count all trips that are zapped, not just commutes to work. The County has long been a supporter of bicycling for employees - offering loaner bikes for employees to use during breaks and after work, indoor bike parking, and bike workshops - efforts that helped them earn Bike Friendly Business recognition from the League of America Bicyclists.
"We've had a history of being supportive of biking as a mode of transportation," said Howell. "Adding ZAP Twin Cities is a way to add another tool to our wellness toolkit for employees."
To learn more about incorporating ZAP Twin Cities into the benefits options at your company, contact Damian Goebel at 651-224-8555, ext. 24 or damian@smart-trips.org.
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Help Metro Transit refine personalized transit planner
Metro Transit recently launched a new customizable, personal transit information center tool My Metro Transit that allows users to arrange transit information on a personal web dashboard. Users can include their Go-To Card balance, most-used NexTrips, favorite routes, frequent trip plans, real-time MnDOT traffic camera views, local weather, and Metro Transit Twitter and Facebook feeds.
This new feature is in the testing/evaluation phase, so users are encouraged to create their own dashboard and send feedback about the service to Metro Transit. Log on to create your own transit information center.
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Smart Trips welcomes new board members, officers
Smart Trips welcomed six new board members at our January board meeting. New members include Gena Berglund - Macalester College; Karen Hartmann - Agribank; Michelle Beaulieu - City of Saint Paul PED; Calida Cogan - West 7th/Fort Road neighborhood; Heidi Schallberg - Downtown neighborhood; Kjensmo Walker - Mac/Groveland neighborhood.
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New board officers were also selected at the meeting:
Chair - John Mark Lucas
Past Chair - Ken Iosso
Vice Chair - Kelly Jameson
Treasurer - Zach Schwartz.
Other current board members include Robert Ed, Eric Mann, Chris Nimmer, Russ Stark and Amber Dallman.
We appreciate our board members sharing their time and expertise to help Smart Trips with governance and strategic direction and their participation with us in St. Paul events.
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