by: Jessica Hand

Eight elementary schools in Roseburg are teaching bicycle safety as a life skill.

A trailer packed with 36 bikes and over 100 helmets is making the rounds to fourth and fifth grade physical education classrooms, where teachers, a AmeriCorps Safe Routes to School Facilitator Janelle Polcyn and community members are joining forces to teach students how to ride and how to be safe using a bike as a mode of transportation.

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