By STEPHANIE BUNKER
Moapa Valley Progress
Students and parents from Grant M. Bowler Elementary School showed up at the Logandale Sports Complex on Wednesday morning, October 4, to enjoy the crisp fall air with some exercise.
The large group was celebrating Walk to School Day, by doing just that. The students who lived too far away from school to walk had the opportunity to meet together at the ball fields and walk from there with parents and friends.
Bowler P.E. Teacher Denise Hoy said that the Walk to School Day is part of the Safe Route to School program as well as participating in the Fire Up Your Feet Challenge.
Those that gathered that morning started at the ball fields and walked East on Frehner Ave, turned left onto Heyer walking along the bike path next to the road until it met up with Whipple and then took another lefttoward the school. The walkers then walked the length of the Clark County Fair Grounds until they reached the school.
Vice Principal Vanessa Solis joined the group. “This is a great way to bring the school together,” she said. “We have a lot of great kids in Moapa Valley. The kid’s love that the teachers come out and walk to school with them.”
Hoy said that this is the 3rd year they have held Walk to School Day. She was quite pleased with the turn out. “The first year we held it, my son and I were the only ones to come,” she said. “It has grown in leaps and bounds!”
Hoy added that this walk counts towards the kids’ miles for the 100 Miles Club.
PTO President Brandy Harter walked with her kindergarten daughter Chloe and son Ryan. “My kids wanted to walk to school and we have never done it before,” she said.
Harter explained that they live close enough to the school to not qualify for the bus, but far enough away that she hasn’t let her kids walk to school yet.
“I told them, ‘Let’s start with this’,” she said. “It will be fun and everyone will be there.”
