Ride for a Good Cause—and Pie

The Janesville Morning Rotary Club helps support many local charities, and you can too by joining the 22nd Annual Pie Ride on June 18, 2022!

Join us on June 18 at the brand new route location in Downtown Janesville for a day of riding, fun, and PIE! 🥧

Choose from the Family Fun Flex 5K (3Miles), 20k ride or the more challenging 50k and 100k routes. All routes begin and end at Town Square in Downtown Janesville to celebrate with pie (2 per family)!

Plus, all riders receive a commemorative long-sleeve t-shirt! (2 per family)

Pre-register at https://portal.clubrunner.ca/8349/page/2022-pie-ride

In The News!

Thanks to the hard work of Rock Trail Coalition members and other interested citizens, Rock County plans to finish paving the Peace Trail by November of this year. The Rock County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously  during their March meeting to use nearly $90,000 in excess sales tax and funds from American Transmission Company to fill the final gap in funding.

The Peace Trail is a 6.6-mile trail connecting Rockport Park in Janesville to Big Hill Park in Beloit, part of which is already paved. The goal of the project is to pave the 4.6 miles from Tripp Road to Big Hill Park.

Rock Trail Coalition member Dean Paynter said the Peace Trail is an important link to other trails in the area, not just Janesville to Beloit.

“You’ve got two destinations for tourism, and people will want to come and ride their bikes on this new trail,” Paynter said. “It also connects to the northern Illinois trail system going south through Beloit and to the Ice Age Trail to the north.”

Paynter said the project raised $237,000 in donations, including several donations exceeding $20,000 each.

Pictures provided by Dean P.

The Rock Trail Coalition has had an interesting year 2021! Here are a few of the highlights:

• With the changes to the trails since the last map printing, the RTC was instrumental in supporting the printing of new maps to reflect recent additions!
• On April 11th Mocha Moment held a coffee event that raised $1,523 for RTC.
• After a successful membership drive this spring we now have over 100 paid memberships!
• Our not for profit status helped the Leadership Development Academy pass through over $15,000 for the “Stretch Out Stress” equipment in Janesville.
•  We purchased a new brush mower jointly with the Janesville Velo Club.
•  RTC has committed a $20,000 donation toward the county effort to pave the Peace Trail from Tripp Road to Big Hill Park.
• We hired a landscape architect from Madison to develop a plan to close the Peace Trail gap from Big Hill Park into the City of Beloit.  That study is the basis for current negotiations with Rock County, the Town of Beloit, and the City of Beloit to apply for a DOT grant to help bring that to a reality in the next few years.
• We held our second annual Peace Trail 25k Time Trial on August 29th. Cyclists competed on the hilly route from Afton to Hanover.  With our generous sponsors we raised $837 for RTC.

What’s next on our Wish List?!

• Please remember to support us! All these projects require money and many come to reality because the RTC has provided seed money. Make sure that your friends are aware of our organization and support us! In addition, please consider joining our club. In numbers is strength!

Be part of us! Sign up to belong and Donate here.

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