White Bear Lake cycling

Jim Muellner wasn’t just a child riding his bike on St. Paul streets in the 1940s; he was an American frontiersman from the 1770s. “As I child, I loved biking,” says Muellner, now 77. “It made me feel like Daniel Boone. It made me feel like an adventurer. I could go a block and then another block.”
   
Muellner’s pioneering spirit remained as he jump-started a floundering corporation into a multimillion-dollar international powerhouse in the 1970s and 1980s, and as he kindled a startup into a philanthropic shop aiding hundreds in White Bear Lake from the 1990s to today. Read more about Jim Muellner's Bike Dreams Come True

Sure, bike riding and walking are good for the body, but have you ever thought about how those activities can benefit an entire community?
   
That’s what the Northeast Communities Bike Walk team considers daily. “If you have communities that are easier to get around, if the roads aren’t daunting, if you feel like you can cross roads and the traffic speeds aren’t so great, then you’ll have more people out,” says Mike Brooks, one of the group’s leading volunteers. “They’ll walk in stores, get to know each other, and become more of a community.”
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