One of the area’s best-known bicycle shops will open a location at the former Strikes Bowling Lounge (and an original Urban Outfitters store) at 4040 Locust St. later this summer.

Keswick Cycle will reportedly open the 4,000-square-foot store in late August, just as students start to return to the area en masse. The store, which will include bike and clothing sales and maintenance, will likely be the largest bike shop in West Philly.

The store will also include a studio to help elite riders and triathletes get fitted for bikes.

Keswick Cycle has been a neighborhood fixture in the Montgomery County suburb of Glenside since the 1930s and also operates a store in Cherry Hill, N.J.

Neighborhood Bike Works is holding the first of many June bike sales today from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. near St. Mary’s Church (3916 Locust Walk).

Today’s sale is being dubbed as a “preview sale” in preparation for the Big Sale next Saturday (June 11) at the same location from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Bike prices will be as low as $20 and some spare parts – like tires and tubes – will also be available. Keep in mind that the cheaper the bike the more likely you will need to do a little work to get it up and running.

Proceeds from the sale will go toward scholarships for the Neighborhood Bike Works’ summer programs.

Bartram’s Garden is offering a half-price membership at the Seed Saver level as part of a community outreach effort. A $50 membership is now $25.

As a Seed Saver member you are eligible for 15 free-admission program passes to tours of this national historic landmark house and garden and for monthly educational programs (valid through June 30, 2012). Passes are transferable so you can share them with friends and family. Bartram’s Garden members also receive discounts on Garden Shop and plant purchases and invitations to plant sale previews.

The offer expires June 30. For more information call Alison McDowell at 215-729-5281 x103 or email: amcdowell [at] bartramsgarden.org

Ana T. Forrest is a yoga superstar. She has been helping people fix body, mind and spirit through yoga for almost 40 years. Developer of Forrest Yoga, an approach that borrows from the East but is aimed at a “Western lifestyle,” has become a standard class in studios around the world. This weekend she will be in West Philly.

Forrest, who has used yoga to overcome much trauma in her won life, will conduct workshops Friday through Sunday at Studio 34 (4522 Baltimore Ave.).  Following workshops on Saturday and Sunday, Forrest will read from her new book, Fierce Medicine, and take questions. The book is available at Bindlestiff Books (4530 Baltimore Ave.), which will also have copies at the readings.

Here is the workshop schedule:

Friday: 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m and 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. (reading to follow)
Sunday: 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (reading to follow)

You can sign up for all four session at a discounted price or individual sessions. For more information and to sign up go to Studio 34’s website.

Landscape crews mowed the newly installed grass at Clark Park “A” today, a major step toward opening the section of the park that borders Baltimore Avenue, which has been fenced off since late last year.

The Friends of Clark Park wrote that one of the “yardsticks” for opening the park was two successful mows of the grass that had been laid down over the last few weeks. The trigger for opening the part will be the next cut. The fencing was scheduled to come down sometime in June. Now we will all be watching for the second cut, which will signal the park’s long-awaited opening.

Here are a few photos from yesterday’s May Fair at Clark Park.