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MRH Elementary School Families Walk to School

Trailnet hosted an event Friday along the roundabout at Glades Avenue aimed at interesting parents and students in walking to classes.

Trailnet hosted a family event Friday morning at aimed at getting parents and students to consider walking to school.

"The school really supports what we're doing here," said Cindy Cantrell, a resident and Trailnet's school specialist.

The organization hopes to get more people who live within a half-mile of suburban St. Louis schools interested in walking to class, she said. Four different groups of students, accompanied by adults, are walking to MRH Elementary School these days as part of the Safe Routes to School program.

On Friday, students picked up stickers that read "I walked to school," tried yogurt from the St. Louis District Dairy Council and stuck push pins in a map showing where they live in relation to the school. Parents got coffee and bagels.

It happened on the Glades Avenue side of the building.

Anne Arias' son, Luke, attends the MRH Elementary. She and her group of four students have only missed one of their 1-mile Wednesday walking routes this school year. They couldn't walk one week because of threat of lightning.

"They have a good time, they chit chat," she said. She learned about the program after reading a flyer and meeting Cantrell at an open house. Arias already works out and walks, she said, so it was a natural fit.


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