![Mike was among the 2014 nominees for the Betty Strasenburgh Award for Activism. [PHOTO: John Derycke]](http://www.reconnectrochester.org/images/photos/mike-governale-01.jpg)
Posted by: Renee Stetzer, pedestrian safety advocate and blogger at RocVille.com
The Rochester Community Design Center hosted the fourth annual Reshaping Rochester Awards luncheon this week and we had a table full of Reconnect Rochester board members there to support one of our own – Mike Governale.
Mike was among the nominees for the Betty Strasenburgh Award for Activism 
. He did not win the award, but I’ll get to that in a moment…
On Tuesday, January 31, the Rochester Regional Community Design Center will present “Transformation: Don’t be Afraid of It,” a talk by Peter Park, planning director for Denver. Peter Park will take us through a genesis of the transformative process in Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the 1990’s where he was a key player in planning and implementing the creation of the River Walk, a downtown revitalization project , for more than a decade.