[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 109 (Thursday, July 22, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H5961]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        HONORING TERRY McGHAUHEY

  (Mr. OBERSTAR asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, I rise with a very heavy heart to join 
fellow cyclists throughout Minnesota in mourning the untimely loss of 
Terry McGhauhey, father, founder, godfather, midwife, impresario of the 
Paul Bunyan Bicycle Trail.
  It was Terry McGhauhey who, 22 years ago, saw the notice of 
termination of rail service along central Minnesota's area from Baxter, 
Minnesota, up to Hackensack, and rode out like a modern day town crier 
to alert communities along the trail to join together, save the right-
of-way, to build the Paul Bunyan trail, which now has 650,000 users a 
year. Every year Terry McGhauhey mobilized group rides, engaged the 
business communities all along the trail to see not only the physical 
and outdoors enjoyment and health benefits of a bike/ped, in-line 
skating trail, but also to see the business opportunities that have 
benefited all the communities along.
  We didn't expect Terry's loss. He had suffered from Parkinson's, but 
he was there at the helm of this year's ride, and he was already 
planning for next year's ride. I shall miss him greatly as a friend, a 
treasured participant in bicycling. All of bicycling in Minnesota will 
miss Terry McGhauhey.

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