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Crossing guards merit appreciation
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Crossing guards are critical to preserving the important and healthful tradition of walking and biking to school and I ask you and your community to recognize these unsung heroes today for the fourth annual Crossing Guard Appreciation Day...
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Williamsville School District and the Villages of Sherman and Williamsville apply for Safe Routes to School Grant
Safe Routes to School is a 100% federally funded reimbursement program developed to increase the number of students in grades kindergarten through eighth grade walking and biking to and from school. The program is administered by the Illinois Department of Transportation.
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Safe Routes to School National Partnership Announces New State Network Project
With generous support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the SRTS National Partnership is implementing the SRTS State Network Project in nine states and the District of Columbia. The project creates state networks that bring together advocacy groups, government agencies and other leaders to support the SRTS program and ensure its success and growth.
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Towns trying to provide safe routes to schools
Champaign News-Gazette – Champaign IL
Rick Langlois worries about how his son gets to school. When his son went to Robeson Elementary School in Champaign, Langlois often cycled with him. But now that son is headed to Jefferson Middle School, and ready for more independence.
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Erik Steele: Are our children less safe at home than we think?
Bangor Daily News – Bangor, Maine
EDITORIAL - The raising of children is full of paradoxes, and for American parents this is a tough one; in order to make them safer we need to kick our children out of doors into the world we have come to fear as parents. Home, in some ways, is becoming more dangerous for our children than the great outdoors.
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Pingree Grove program encourages kids to hoof it to school
The Courier News
PINGREE GROVE -- Mount Prospect police Officer Joseph Morels and his wife Stacey sit at the kitchen table in their home here while their three young children whirl like dervishes around the house, cleaning floors and cabinets and vacuuming. But when fall rolls around and school doors open, the couple said, they want their children on the street..
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Board looks to make school routes safer
The Register-Mail - Galesburg, IL, USA
ALPHA - Village Board members Monday night approved a resolution to apply for a grant for the "Safe Routes to School" plan. The reimbursement grant program, ...
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Sandoval pursuing Safe Routes to School funding
Salem Times Commoner - Salem, IL, USA
The plans for a $400000 Safe Routes to School project in Sandoval took a step forward Tuesday after a decision by the Illinois Department of Transportation ...
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West Frankfort Safe Routes to Schools travel plan accepted
Students who attend West Frankfort schools, in particular Frankfort Intermediate School and Central Junior High School, were given even more reason to be optimistic earlier this week about the prospects of sidewalks eventually lining Ninth Street and providing them with a safer alternative than the route some are currently forced to take when walking to school.
The West Frankfort Safe Routes to Schools (WFSRTS) Travel Plan has been accepted by the Illinois Safe Routes to School Program (SRTS) and is now eligible to submit projects and programs.
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Diamond hears call for safety
Joliet Herald News - Joliet, IL, USA
DIAMOND -- Village board members signed a letter of support recently calling for the community's participation in the Safe Routes to School program. ...
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Walking school bus in Quincy
KHQA - Quincy, IL, USA
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District 168 is hoping to secure IDOT funds and construct sidewalks
May 1, 2007
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Plan aims to get more Quincy students walking to school
Quincy Herald Whig - Quincy, IL, USA
The walking school bus is one of the components the city, the schools and Quincy police are working on for a grant submission to the Safe Routes to School ...
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Walking home from school concerns
KHQA - Quincy, IL, USA
City Planner Chuck Bevelheimer has asked all public and parochial schools to submit recommendations to his office as part of the "Safe Routes to school" ...
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IDOT announces new program that encourages safe environment for ...
IGNN (press release) - IL, USA
The new Safe Routes to School Program (SRTS) is a federally funded initiative that will fund projects in Illinois schools and communities over the next ...
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Manito, school district researching program
Pekin Daily Times - Pekin, IL, USA
The public may attend to offer ideas and suggestions to provide safe routes to school across Adams Street , also known as Manito Road , and other busy ...
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Funds available to create safe routes to school
Peoria Journal Star, IL
SPRINGFIELD - Illinois ' schools and communities are eligible for new state funds for projects that encourage and enable students to safely walk and bike to ...
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Program promotes safer; healthier kids
WHOI , IL - Apr 23, 2007
A new initiative through the Illinois Department of Transportation is working to keep kids healthy and safe. IDOT announced on Monday that $23 million will ...
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IDOT announces new program that encourages safe environment for ...
IGNN (press release), IL - Apr 23, 2007
SPRINGFIELD —Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) Acting Secretary Milton R. Sees announced today $23 million is available to fund projects that ...
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Safe routes to schools
KHQA - Quincy, IL, USA
Both private and public schools in the city hope to boost that number by starting a Safe Routes to School travel program. "We're targeting kids that live ...
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District 348 board hear variety of reports as school year winds down
Mt. Carmel Daily Republican Register - Mt. Carmel, IL, USA
Another of Richardson ’s endeavors included working with Mt. Carmel City Economic Developer Brandi Stennett on the “Safe Routes to School” grant. ...
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Marion continues sidewalk refurbishing
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Batavia board backs bikes
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago,IL,USA
A major component of the plan is creating “safe routes to school,” with recommendations for installation of crosswalks and sidewalks and bicycle parking ...
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Student safety, activity targeted
April 8, 2007
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City officials want school kids to get back on sidewalk
April 2, 2007
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Let kids outdoors
March 29, 2007
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Bike path plan falters on trail
March 26, 2007
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A Safe Route Home
Cadillac News 1/22/07
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Parents Take Steps to Bring Back Walking
Watertown TAB & Press 1/19/07
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