Posted on 04/29/2017 3:14:52 PM PDT by SandRat
SIERRA VISTA – Local schools and partner organizations in Sierra Vista and on Fort Huachuca will once again celebrate National Bike to School Day on Wednesday, May 10, by encouraging students to walk or bike to school all week long.
The Fort Huachuca Accommodation School District and Sierra Vista Unified School District have been celebrating National Bike to School Day locally for several years now. With the support of the City of Sierra Vista and other community partners, the local event has grown to extend a full week and includes prizes offered as incentives for students to participate in hopes it helps foster an active lifestyle.
This year, the city was able to purchase 50 bicycles thanks to the support of the Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona, Canyon Vista Medical Center, and Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative. In addition to these three partners, Target is supporting the event by donating staff time to assemble the 50 bicycles, which will be given out by elementary schools as prizes. Other prizes include sports balls, FitBit Charges, passes for The Cove, and day passes for CIBA Climbing Gym.
This year, Olympic bicycle motocross medalist Donny Robinson will visit Sierra Vista to help kickoff Bike/Walk to School Week. Robinson will hold a public meet and greet at M&M Cycling at 6 p.m. on Monday, May 8. Then he’ll ride to school with Huachuca Mountain Elementary School students on Tuesday morning and conduct a bike rodeo event at Carmichael Elementary School later that day.
Take part in cycling challenge starting May 1
In recognition of National Bike Month, the city encourages local cyclists to take part in a free cycling challenge from May 1 through May 31 by logging their miles in Strava.
Whether it’s on a mountain bike trail, on a multi-use path, or along the highway, every mile logged in Strava counts. Every 15 miles earns participants one ticket in a drawing for prizes. There will be weekly winners for both youth and adult divisions and a grand prize drawing will be held on May 31.
Participants can register for a free account at strava.com and join the “SV Cycling Club” for adults or the “SV Youth Cycling Club” for anyone younger than 18. Strava can be used to track miles via its smartphone apps and also integrates with wearable GPS devices. Tickets for the drawing can be picked up each Monday at the Ethel H. Berger Center based on miles logged in Strava.
For more information about the cycling challenge, call John Healy at 520-439-2302 or email Sports@SierraVistaAZ.gov.
Fat Chance. The little snowflakes in my neighborhood sit in their parents cars until the bus comes. No walking to the corner and waiting for the bus.
But, someone will steal my child!
//sarcasm
If we all saw this header 30 years ago we would wonder what on earth it meant.
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Not here! City, City/State LOEs and/or Army MPs will be all around them.
Works in a city. If the kid has to bike twenty miles it’s a bit different.
Some school districts won’t allow it and will even fine parents who walk their kids to school. Crazy times.
Just a minute. Some parents have been arrested for letting their kids walk to school. Which is it? Can’t have it both ways.
We did it all the time when I was in school.
But then, I’m a really old geezer.
Schools were for real education back then, not a political whorehouse.
How is this not completely offensive to handicapped kids?
Isn’t this a horrific example of ableist privilege and diabledphobia?
I can’t believe that there aren’t huge protest marches trying to shut down incredibly offensive initiative.
Protest marches would be hurtful and offensive to those who can’t march.
What? You mean no endless lines of SUVs clogging the travel lanes of roads dropping off their precious little future SJWs??
In-con-theeev-able....
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Better for them to boycott, not bike.
The main diff between prostitution and public schools is that you get something for your money with a prostitute.
The main parallel between the two is that you get screwed by both.
Not a great joke, but sadly close to true.
This will be effing hysterical. I predict virtue signaling, shouting, screeching smoking tires, blocked streets and all-round entertainment at the usual suspect locations.
I walked to school almost every day waaaaay back in the 1960s. It had to be absolutely awful outside for us to get a ride.
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It would make a lot more sense to encourage the kids to get off Facebook after school, and go outside to PLAY for a few hours a day. That would have far better health benefits than just walking or biking to school for a few minutes.
But then, if kids actually went outside to play, the teachers couldn’t bombard their impressionable minds with useless Common Core indoctrination—I mean, homework. Yeah, that’s it. “Homework.”
we walked to school, but back then, there were stay at home moms to protect us from strangers, and there were no gangs preying on the weak.
but we still had neighborhood schools: Often now, the small neighborhood schools are consolidated so the distance to go to school is longer.
And the real reason for school buses is safety: Kids who got killed crossing streets. Remember the crossing guard ladies?
Most of those going to my school walked less than six city blocks, and there were only three busy streets to cross in the area. So we had several crossing ladies or other volunteers on the busier streets to keep the kids safe.
Fat chance because of crime and thugs in many areas.
We had crossing guards then, too. I have never seen one once since. I think school systems get far more money for buses.
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