Bands given out as part of National Walk to School day

More than 300 children from Patterson Elementary were present for the National Walk to School Day event at Patterson Elementary School in Lakewood on Wednesday, October 4, 2006. National Walk to School Day helps promote the many positive health, safety and environmental benefits that can be gained from regular walking and bicycling to and from school.

Firefighters and volunteers helped walk children to school in order to promote walking and bicycling as healthy activities and demonstrate important safety behaviors. Kids and their parents received pedestrian safety literature and glow-in-the dark silicone bracelets to wear for Halloween trick-or-treating activities. Halloween night has traditionally had the most pedestrian injuries and deaths of any day of the year.

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