May 2012

Sustaining a Safe Routes to School program is on everyone’s mind.

Growing up in Berea, Ohio, I walked to school, played outside and rode my bike in our part of the Cleveland Metro Parks. My love of the outdoors and community service started there during elementary school –a park cleanup and stream restoration in the 5^th grade showed me how people can make positive changes in their community.  

Jeanie Ward-Waller is a structural engineer who also holds two masters degrees. After working as a civil engineer on building construction for four years, Jeanie decided to do something big, bold and very different.

Katie Couric said on CBS national news, ‘There is something so right about a kid on a bike’.