Fitness and safety promoted at Walk-to-School Day on 10/2 at Sepulveda Elem.

Santa Ana Unified School District

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 27, 2013

Contact: Deidra Powell, Chief Communications Officer, (714) 558-5555 Office, (714) 673-4995 Mobile

Media Advisory: Fitness and Safety Promoted at Walk-to-School Day – October 2, 2013, Sepulveda Elementary School

Event: Join the Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) and its Healthy Eating Active Communities partners Orange County Health Care Agency along with the Santa Ana School Police and Santa Ana Police Department as they participate in the annual International Walk to School Day. Educators, parents, students, and community members will take part in this global event to bring awareness to the importance of practicing safe walking, biking, and traffic skills. In addition, participants will review ways to maintain secure routes before, during and after school hours throughout the city of Santa Ana, while promoting physical activity.

Who:

• Santa Ana Unified School District Board of Education members
• Sepulveda Elementary School staff, parents and students
• City and county officials
• Partner representatives
• Santa Ana School Police Department and Santa Ana Police Department

When: Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Walk commences at 7:40 a.m., McDonald’s Parking Lot on Edinger Ave. and Pacific Ave.

Ceremony begins at 8:05 a.m.

Where: Sepulveda Elementary School

1801 S Poplar St.

Santa Ana, CA 92704

Photo Ops: SAUSD Board Members, community partners, parents and students join together in walking at 7:40 a.m. from Edinger Ave. and Pacific Ave. to Sepulveda Elementary School. Photographs of participants will be available between 7:55 and 8:05 a.m. and immediately after the program. The Walk to School program will begin at 8:05 a.m.

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