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NAPLES — Fourteen schools in Collier County will join schools from around the world Wednesday to celebrate International Walk to School Day.
About 7,000 county students are expected to participate along with their parents, teachers and community leaders. The event, organized by the Collier County Community Traffic Safety Team, will begin a half hour before the start of school with walkers coming from various locations, according to a news release from the county's Transportation Planning Department.
Participating schools include: Eden Park Elementary (school starts at 6:30 a.m.); Highlands Elementary, Lake Trafford Elementary and Village Oaks Elementary schools (school starts at 7 a.m.); Pinecrest Elementary (school starts at 7:15 a.m.); Avalon Elementary, Corkscrew Elementary, Golden Gate Primary and Intermediate, Golden Terrace Elementary, Parkside Elementary, Poinciana Elementary, Shadowlawn Elementary and Tommie Barfield Elementary schools (school starts at 7:30 a.m.); and Immokalee Community (school starts at 7:45 a.m.).
Students participating in the event will receive backpacks stuffed with free goodies. In addition, the Highlands Elementary School is participating in the week-long Walk Safe Program and will receive T-shirts, hats, pens, pencils, bookmarks and posters. Sheriff's deputies will hand out backpacks filled with goodies to walkers at Parkside Elementary, 5322 Texas Ave., East Naples, from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
According to the news release:
"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, reduction of traffic congestion, concern for the environment and building connections between families, schools and the broader community. The idea is to walk to school together with a purpose — to promote health, safety, physical activity and concern for the environment.
"In addition, parents will have the pleasure of spending a few extra minutes with their children, along with the opportunity to meet teachers and other parents. Children who normally are driven to school will enjoy the attention and exercise; those who normally walk to school will be reminded of safety precautions to take along their route. Holding and participating in the event creates a forum for examining and discussing ways that we can improve the design of the communities to provide our youth with a safer, more independent way of walking to school."
On the Net:
■ International Walk to School in the USA: www.walktoschool.org
■ National Center for Safe Routes to School: www.saferoutesinfo.org
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Rockford, you should see Community School of Naples parents if you think parents ar BCHS are bad. Let's take a state of urgency to a whole new level of "GET OUTTA MY WAY, OR I'LL RUN YOU OVER."
#1 Posted by beetlejuice on October 7, 2008 at 12:45 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Good day to dicuss more outsourcing?
Good thinking Mr.T.
#2 Posted by upnorth on October 7, 2008 at 2:27 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I'm proud of Collier County as we were the first County in Florida to participate in the Walk Your Children to School event. I walked with my son to school the first one and several times since and had a good time bonding while teaching him pedestrian and traffic safety. Both of my kids learned to stop at the edge, look left, right and back to the left, and to scan over the left shoulder for right turning vehicles. My son is in college now and declined my offer to walk him there today.
#3 Posted by Motherfletcher on October 8, 2008 at 4:34 a.m. (Suggest removal)
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