Willow Brook Students Get Free Bike Helmets

The following information was provided by the Pattonville School District community relations department:

Fourth-graders from Bridgeway and Willow Brook elementary schools who took part in a day of safety-related activities earlier this school year recently received free bike helmets as a follow-up to what they learned that day.

Pattonville students took part in safety training through the Progressive Agriculture Safety Day on Oct. 10. Held at Willow Brook, the program was a full-day event designed for students to learn safety and health lessons that they can use every day while at home and school, or even camping or on a farm or ranch. Students visited a variety of activity stations, where they learned about safety topics ranging from Internet, roadway, chemical, food and camping. More than 60 volunteers from sponsor Bunge North America, an agribusiness and food-processing corporation, were on hand to assist the students.

During the Safety Day, students were fitted for bicycle helmets that were donated by the program “Helmets First.” In January, volunteers from Bunge returned to deliver the helmets. Pattonville’s school-business partnership office worked with the schools, Bunge and several  co-sponsors to arrange the Safety Day and the bike helmet deliveries.