Safe Routes To School - Ft. Worth
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17th Annual Cowtown Classic Bike Ride |
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Last September, BikeTexas Local Outreach Coordinators Elaine Williams and KC Jones attended Fort Worth's largest bike event, the Cowtown Classic Bike Ride. They met with Ride Director Terry Slotsue to express Texas Bicycle Coalition's support and interest in cycling activities in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Sponsored by the Southwest Kiwanis club youth programs, proceeds from the ride are distributed to Cook Children’s Hematology & Oncology Center, as well as to the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
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Fort Worth ISD Staff Collaborates with BikeTexas |
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{attractor float=left}Roberts provided Jones and WIlliams with Fort Worth ISD maps so they could more easily find the schools that are spread citywide.{/attractor}
Georgi Roberts, Physical Education and Health Director for Fort Worth ISD, is working with Texas Bicycle Coalition staff to provide Safe Routes to School training to Fort Worth ISD's 4th and 5th grade physical education teachers. Because of Roberts' extraordinary efforts, more than 50 teachers have already been trained. Together with Coalition staff, Roberts has scheduled another training to take place on October 29 for the teachers who were unable to attend the previous training session. |
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Worth Heights: A Worthy Candidate |
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Elaine Williams met with Ignnacio Zamora, president of the Worth Heights neighborhood association, Wilma Smith from the City of Fort Worth Transportation and Public Works Department (Traffic Engineering Division) and Vicki Bargas, whose mother started the Worth Heights neighborhood association years ago. Safety issues immediately became a common thread. |
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Bruce Shulkey Off to a Quick Start |
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PTA member Darlene Shue invited KC Jones to present the SR2S program at their monthly meeting, which included an ice cream social and mini-science fair at Bruce Shulkey Elementary in south Fort Worth.
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Welcome Elaine Williams LOC number 2 |
 TBC welcomes its second local outreach coordinator, Elaine WIlliams, for the Fort Worth Safe Routes to Schools program. Elaine loves to ride her bike as exercise and understands its
importance as alternative transportation. Having worked in management
with corporate red tape, she understands the way government and school
intities operate. "I'm looking forward to helping kids learn a life
skill that will help them stay healthy. There is a lot to be done in
the fight to free Texas children from obesity." Elaine Williams has
worked with KC Jones and we expect the two will be a dynamic pair. |
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Fort Worth League of Neighborhood Associations meeting |
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During a visit to train local outreach coodinators (LOCs) in Fort Worth,
Executive Director, Robin Stallings accompanied staff to the Fort Worth League of
Neighborhood Associations meeting.
The guest speaker was
Superintendent Dr. Melody Johnson. Stallings used the opportunity
to present Dr. Johnson with a commemorative Lance Armstrong liscense
plate for embrassing the BikeTexas: Safe Routes to Schools
program. LOCs KC Jones and Elaine WIlliams productively networked
with the members of various neighborhood associations. It Starts With You
brochures were distributed before the the meeting,
generating much interest and invitations to speak in the future to individual
neighborhood associations. |
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BikeTexas hires new Ft. Worth Local Outreach Coordinator |
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BikeTexas is pleased to announce the hiring of KC Jones. KC will be working in Ft. Worth as one of three Local Outreach Coordinators in the area for the BikeTexas Safe Routes to School Program. She will assit in recruiting schools, teachers and volunteers for the program as well as assist in training teachers and students in the Texas SuperCyclist Curriculum. Through local outreach efforts, Texas Bicycle Coalition is committed to making Ft. Worth safer, healthier, and more accommodating for children and families who wish to walk or ride their bikes to school and elsewhere in their communities.
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