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2019 Rural Romp

Submitted by dfoolen on March 21st, 2019 10:39 AM
Date: 
Thursday, March 28th, 2019 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Location: 

University of Guelph - Landscape Architecture Pit (Lobby)

The School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph and the Ontario Professional Planners Institute's Student Liaison Committee invite you to the 2019 Rural Romp.  This event is open to all SEDRD students.  This year's theme: ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION.  The day's presenters and itinerary is as follows:

4th Annual Rural Romp: Active Transportation 

  1. Bob Bell - Guelph Councillor, CEO of WIKE Bicycle Company 
  2. Celina Whaling-Rae - Student Planner, Huron County 
  3. George McKibbon - Environmental Planner, Mckibbon Wakefield Inc.

PIZZA provided and James Fedosov - Speed River Bicycle demonstration of spring bicycle tune-up.

  1. Sue  Shikaze - Health Promoter, Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit
  2. Jessica Lang - Health Promoter, Southwestern Public Health 
  3. Dayle Laing - Sustainable LEED Designer, Bike Advocate 

Coffee break

  1. Samantha Leger - Transportation Planner, WSP 
  2. Justin Jones - Manager, Bicycle Friendly Ontario 
  3. Aaron Roininen & Nathan Westendorp - The Blue Mountains Planning Department 
  4. Claire Basinski - Project Manager WSP


All welcome to attend.  Questions can be directed to Meghan Birbeck [1]

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The School of Environmental Design and Rural Development (SEDRD) brings together major academic fields concerned with creating strong communities, in Canada and around the world. The four highly respected programs in SEDRD share many common goals but approach them in different and complementary ways. This model reflects the imperatives in building authentic communities where planners, landscape architects, communicators, and citizens all play important interdependent roles in community strength.

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  • Rural Planning and Development
  • Rural Studies

Source URL:https://www.uoguelph.ca/sedrd/events/2019/03/2019-rural-romp

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[1] mailto:mbirbeck@uoguelph.ca?subject=Rural%20Romp