Santa Monica, California
(June 17, 2002)
Mark Hunter - a junior at Santa
Monica High School (SaMoHi)(Samohi Online Newspaper), resident of Santa Monica, and newly elected
vice president of his high school student body - learned to ride a bike a
year and half ago. Just last week he completed the 575-mile-week-long AidsRide
California. He and another junior at Samohi were the only high school
students from Samohi and among only 5 high school students to ride in the event.
Mark believes that the reason more kids aren't riding bikes is because of
society's notion that cars are best. As the vice president(Samohi), he would like to
work on changing that. One idea he has is to give special credit to those
students that bicycle to school. For the full story about him and Max Dean
Goldstein(Santa Monica Resident, junior Samohi) riding for AIDS, see: Full
Article
Links to other youth bicycling programs and
resources:
(if you know of any other great links to
add please send them to [email protected])
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Groundwork (London, UK) (good info)
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Safe Routes to School (New Zealand) (good info)
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Green Teacher (February-March 1993 promoting bicycling in your school)
