Over the last year, Iowa Safe Routes to School has been collaborating with Northwest Iowa Planning & Development Commission to improve biking and walking safety for kids Lyon, Sioux, Osceola, O’Brien, Dickinson, Clay, Buena Vista, Emmet, and Palo Alto. During the past year, the bulk of the work has focused on Spirit Lake and Spencer. …
Last month we had the opportunity to do some bike safety education at the Oakridge Neighborhood in Des Moines. Oakridge is a 21st Century Learning Community Center which does a ton of fun summer education programming for the kids in the neighborhood. Iowa Safe Routes to School was excited to work with the staff. The …
Iowa Safe Routes to School was in Iowa City collaborating with Iowa City Park & Recreation for their first annual Pedal Power Event. Pedal Power was a kid specific and family friendly event on May 23rd at the Terry Trueblood Recreation Center. We had the pleasuring of educating kids on how ride straight lines. While …
Stanton Iowa first caught Iowa Safe Routes to School attention when we were looking at communities that had trail systems for an idea we had for the annual Iowa Safe Routes to School Conference. What caught our attention was that Stanton is a town of just shy of 700 people and they are working on …
Brenda Vavroch the Iowa Safe Routes to School Coordinator at INRCOG wrote the following blog about her trip to help support the Independence Iowa and their Bike Safety Day. Independence, Iowa has a long history of building strong, safe and independent bike riders. Local community group, Indee- Go- Healthy and the school district have been …
