July 1st began the VVCC's 16th year as a bicycle advocacy organization. In recognition of 15 years of improving the bicycling environment and quality of life in the region, we have been scouring the archives - thank you Daniel Paduchowski - to bring our past to the present. The below articles appeared in the November 2, 2005 edition of the Cottonwood Journal Extra and November 9, 2005 Very Independent and are reprinted below...