...oil your bicycle chain, wear a warm coat, and join the fun!Parkview Elementary, Columbia Middle School and Immaculate Conception School are partnering with the City of Columbia, the Monroe County YMCA and other partners to celebrate the community’s first annual Walk & Roll To School Day this Wednesday, October 28th.
Students from each school will be walking or riding bicycles along with parents, teachers and community leaders. Mayor Kevin Hutchinson and members of the Columbia City Council will also participate in the event. The event will mark the community’s recognition of International Walk to School Day, an event that includes 5,000 schools from all 50 states as well as 40 countries around the world.
Walk to School events work to create safer routes for walking and bicycling and emphasize the importance of issues such as increasing physical activity among children, pedestrian safety, traffic congestion, concern for the environment and building connections between families, schools and the broader community.
The event is being organized by the local Safe Routes To School Steering Committee, a broad-based group of partner organizations and community members that recently completed a comprehensive School Travel Plan.
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