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Walk to School Day: Penn Valley Parents and Others Organize Treks

It's Walk to School Day Wednesday. Do your kids walk to school?

Held each year on the first Wednesday of October, Walk to School Day is an internationally recognized day to celebrate the benefits of walking by encouraging schoolchildren to walk and bicycle to school.

Here in Narberth-Bala Cynwyd Patch, several groups of walkers are being organized this morning. One group is leaving from Meeting House Lane and Iona Avenue in Narberth at 8 a.m. to walk the 2 1/2 miles to .

Other groups are heading to about 8:40 a.m. from Moreno Road and Penn Valley Road and also from Hagys Ford Road and Fairview Road—a couple of blocks in each case.

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Helping to spearhead these efforts is the Penn Valley Sidewalk Group, which is lobbying for the installation of sidewalks along Hagys Ford Road for walkers to Penn Valley Elementary and .

Now in its 15th year in the United States, Walk to School Day is recognized as a way to bring school officials, local leaders, parents, and children together to build awareness of why communities should be more walkable.

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“The hope is that Walk or Roll to School Day will generate enough enthusiasm for walking and bicycling that schoolchildren will continue to walk and bike to school long after the Oct. 5 celebration has ended,” said Carol Kilko, director of the Pennsylvania Safe Routes to School Resource Center.


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