Patriots Players Celebrate Walking to School with Ross Elementary Students
Ross students participated in Massachusetts Walk & Bike to School Day on Wednesday.
New England Patriots Matthew Slater and Zoltan Mesko greeted students from Ross Elementary School Wednesday as they walked and biked to school, part of the annual Massachusetts Walk & Bike to School Day put on by the MassDOT program Safe Routes to School. The Patriots – Slater, a special teams Pro Bowler, and punter Mesko – also joined the students in the gymnasium for a PLAY 60 pep rally, featuring tips on healthy eating and exercise and a question and answer session. Kathy Corbo, the Ross PTO President, wrote to the Patriots requesting the participation of players in the event. Ross is a walking school without school buses. A federally-funded project pitched with the help of Safe Routes to School and slated to begin this year will revamp…
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Matt
3:47 pm on Tuesday, January 22, 2013
$615,000 to make sidewalks safe for the kids that walk to the Ross School. Yea that's money well spent. 95% of the kids that go to this school don't walk they get picked up and dropped off by there parents. I wonder how the parents of the kids that will be sitting soon in there new modular class rooms will feel about this. I'm guessing they wont be to happy about this. But that's just a guess more ›