Upcoming Brookhaven Teens Go Green Club Rides To Movies

Media Contact:  Sarah Hadler, Assistant Program Manager, Safe Routes to School Sebastopol. Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition, 707-545-0153 (o)  sarah@bikesonoma.org

 SEBASTOPOL, CA – On Saturday, February 27th, Brook Haven Middle School’s Teens Go Green Club (part of Safe Routes to School) will ride their bikes to see “The Lightning Thief”.  A group of Sebastopol teenagers and parents will meet at the West County Revolution Bike Shop (6731 Sebastopol Rd) at 10:30am, and ride their bikes out to the Roxy Movie Theater in Santa Rosa via the Joe Rodota Bike Trail and Santa Rosa Creek Path, about 14 miles roundtrip.  The group will return to Sebastopol by 3:30pm.  Movie matinees are $7.75 and please make sure your child has water and a snack (and/or money for popcorn, etc.).  Parents are more than welcome.  Everyone must wear helmets and fill out a waiver form (available the morning of the ride), and please bring a lock if you have one.  Rain cancels the ride. This is a great way for teens to practice their riding skills, mechanic skills and bicycle path etiquette as well as experience the bicycle as a viable form of transportation.  Teens Go Green is organizing monthly rides (last Saturday of the month) to different destinations around Sonoma County. 

About Sebastopol and Sonoma County County Safe Routes to School:
The Sebastopol Unified School District Safe Routes to School program, funded a federal Safe Routes to School grant to the city of Sebastopol, is being implemented at Park Side Elementary School, Pine Crest Elementary School, Brookhaven Middle School, and the Sebastopol Independent Charter School. The goal of Safe Routes to School programs is to encourage walking and bicycling where it is safe, and to make changes where it is not safe.  SRTS programs do this through an integrated approach that includes five E's - encouragement, education, evaluation, engineering, and enforcement. In doing so, SRTS programs address health and safety by reducing traffic congestion around schools, increasing physical activity, encouraging lifestyle changes for families, creating safer, calmer streets and neighborhoods, and improving air quality and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition is the lead implementation agency for the Sebastopol SRTS program, as well as the Sonoma County SRTS program, which is funded through the Measure M Transportation tax and administered by the Sonoma County Transportation Authority.