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Finding places to set up camp and organizing a route that avoided high traffic highways as often as possible required plenty of advance preparation. But identifying a sensible route was only part of the challenge to completing the ride. Many cities and counties have regulations that restrict horseback riding, including Bloomington. Stephanie Smith of Bloomington was not among the riders, but she was part of the local support crew for the group’s passage through the city. Putting her event planning experience to work on behalf of World Peace and Prayer Day, she coordinated the group’s
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tion to the riders, several support vehicles made the trek along county roads, neighborhood streets and the occasional highway, including a film crew that was chronicling the journey for a documentary. One of the support vehicles is an RV that provides a kitchen for meal preparation. Each night the group would set up camp at a city or county park, or occasionally farmland that was offered to the group.
passage to Pond Dakota Mission Park and on to Fort Snelling, where the group would camp that night.
Parking problem One of the problems with a growing college campus is finding a place for everybody to park. The challenge for Normandale Community College was finding a solution to the problem that fit within its Bloomington campus and satisfied concerns of residents along its west border. In August the Bloomington City Council approved a modified proposal that moved the ramp closer to the college, providing for additional vegeta-
tion that would serve as screening for the structure. The compromise was aimed at reducing its impact on the nearby neighborhood, but residents there weren’t satisfied with the end result. Despite their objections the council approved the parking plan by a 6-1 vote. The site location for the ramp was chosen over two other areas of the campus because it met the most objectives of the plan, according to Jim Goblirsch of HGA Architects, who worked on the ramp project for the college. The location provided the best access to the college, wouldn’t block pathways into the college and allowed for a storm water YEAR IN REVIEW: TO NEXT PAGE
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