In its 40 years of life, it has turned the Rideau Canal into the world's longest skating rink, planned urban bicycle paths and ski trails in Gatineau Park, and cleared LeBreton Flats, once a timber town and the camping place of lumberjacks and fur-trading voyageurs.

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They also advised washing shoes and bicycle and pushchair wheels after a visit to the park.

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Ron Jones first saw County as a six-year-old when his father took him to their former Somerton Park home on the handlebars of his bicycle.

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The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition uses a manager and 23 bike supervisors, as well as volunteers, to park bikes at San Francisco Giants baseball games, communications director Kristin Smith said in an email message.

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Teens design pedal-powered filtration system: High-schoolers Payton Karr and Kiona Elliot , from Oakland Park, Florida , led a team of inventors who designed a collapsible, transportable, bicycle-powered emergency water-sanitation station that filters E. coli and other harmful pathogens from contaminated water.

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