The City and CMBA will be holding a Group Leader Orientation session on Tuesday May 7 at 6:00pm, followed by a talk on trail maintenance. Anyone interested in becoming a trail crew supervisor must attend this session before being allowed to lead work parties on Nose Hill. Note that this includes anyone who went to the session last year, as you need to be recertified every year. We would like to have several additional people attending this session in order to reduce the work load on our existing crew leaders and to provide us with more flexibility in choosing work days. To sign up, or for more information, email info@cmbalink.com.

On the July 8/9th weekend several members of CMBA attended the World Cup mountain bike race at Canmore to erect and man our display tent, once again to try and increase the public awareness of CMBA and our goals, and to increase our membership base.

At the SPC on Community & Protective Services CMBA gave a 'tag team' presentation. This 25-minute presentation covered all of the issues that CMBA has been discussion regarding Nose Hill Park and cycling in natural areas. Even though the committee decided to vote against cycling in Nose Hill Park the presentation clearly showed that their decision had no basis.

Thank you to the bike shops who supported the CMBA by funding the Calgary Herald advertisement regarding the proposed Nose Hill Trail Closures.