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Enota students, parents participate in Walk to School Day

Students and parents gather this morning at the Elks Lodge on Riverside Drive before walking their children to school. Enota Multiple Intelligences Academy is participating in Walk to School Day, which promotes health, safe walking or biking routes to school, physical activity and concern for the environment. Now in its 14th year, Walk to School Day is expected to include 3,000 schools from all 50 states.

1010walk1 — Students and parents gather this morning at the Elks Lodge on Riverside Drive before walking their children to school. Enota Multiple Intelligences Academy is participating in Walk to School Day, which promotes health, safe walking or biking routes to school, physical activity and concern for the environment. Now in its 14th year, Walk to School Day is expected to include 3,000 schools from all 50 states.

Around 200 elementary school students and their parents surely shamed bypassing drivers as they took advantage of cool weather and clear skies to get some exercise before the school day started. “We have to walk to school,” kindergartner Chase Kingrey said. “It’s good for the heart.”