My Bike Kittie D WestonKnauer Iowa Trails Summit Friday June 19 2010 Fun Bike Things Having a bike to ride Taking care of my bike Riding my bike with my friends Taking part in fun activities with my bike ID: 816195
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All I Want To Do Is Ride My Bike
Kittie D. Weston-Knauer
Iowa Trails Summit
Friday, June 19, 2010
Slide2“Fun” Bike Things
Having a bike to ride
Taking care of my bike
Riding my bike with my friends
Taking part in fun activities with my bike
Slide3Through partnerships, we can provide a variety of healthy, fun cycling activities for youth of all ages.
How do we make getting kids on bikes a reality?
Partnerships
Slide4BMX pioneer can't wait for season to start
May 14, 2009
By DAVE DOLMAGE
community@dmeg.com
Weston-Knauer has been involved with BMX, or bicycle motocross, since her son became interested in the sport. A pioneering woman rider, Weston-Knauer still takes part in numerous races every year and is instrumental in recruiting women to the activity.
The Women of BMX
Slide5In 2001 she helped organize local riders to work with the city of Des Moines to build the BMX track at Ewing Park. The track, operated as a public/private partnership between the city and BMX riders, allows the city to offer services that it otherwise wouldn't be able to afford, said Doug Romig, park services manager for Des Moines.
"These partnerships are great for us because they minimize the taxpayers' cost and we can still offer the same services," Romig said. "The users don't know the difference."
BMX pioneer can't wait for season to start
, cont.
May 14, 2009
Slide6BMX Racing
Partnering with Ewing Park BMX and Des Moines Parks and
Rec
Slide7Schools
Scavo Campus
Fall Bike Ride
ASK Learning Center RAGBRAI
Slide8Schools, cont.
Hillis Elementary bike safety, maintenance, and etiquette presentation
Hillis Elementary BMX Presentation
Slide9What a fantastic feeling to see the smile of a child who has a new bike. Such was the case for over 70 children,
5-17, from the Homes of Oakridge
Saturday, May 2
, in the parking lot of Edmunds Elementary School. These children had waited throughout the winter for bicycles that would provide them the freedom to roam and explore their neighborhood in a healthy and safe manner.
DES
MOINES
BIKE COLLECTIVE
Changing Des Moines two wheels at a time.
Homes of Oakridge
Slide10Bike Rodeo
With their new bikes and helmets, youth learned the rules of the road.
Slide11Sunday, May 3, saw about 60 children, some with bikes in tow, waiting for their “new” bikes. Word had spread through the Oakridge neighborhood Saturday that bikes would be given away on Sunday. However, this was the day that we, as volunteers from the Des Moines Bicycle Collective, would be repairing bicycles.
Homes of Oakridge, cont.
Slide12Homes of Oakridge, cont.
Slide13Carl Voss of the Des Moines Bike Collective, along with volunteer Kittie Weston-Knauer, visited the Bookin’ on Bikes program at Scavo
twice in the past week. They have been sharing their expertise about biking safety and etiquette with the students and staff. We learned all about the different parts of a bike and what to check to make sure our bikes are safe before we ride each day. We also learned many new terms and ways to communicate in order to be safe on the roads and trails.
Teaching Bike Safety and Etiquette
DesMoinesRegister.com
Every School Every Thursday
—
Des Moines East/North
APRIL 9, 2009
Scavo
Slide14A 12-year-old girl who lives at the Des Moines YWCA with her mother spotted a sign on a storefront window downtown last month. It offered a free bicycle.
Basu: Make bicycles, sense of freedom accessible
REKHA BASU –
RBasu@DMReg.com
– April 3, 2009
Dana Drew no longer had a bike. She went back and was offered a deal: Volunteer five hours and get a bike to keep. She earned it that week, in time for spring break. And Kittie Weston-Knauer, the former principal of Scavo alternative school, escorted her on her first ride. . .
Slide15Dana and Kittie wrenching Dana’s bike.
Kittie adjusts Dana’s helmet.
Slide16Dana Drew on Her “New” Bike
. . .Dana
Drew tries out her new bike recently with help from Kittie Weston-Knauer, the former principal of Scavo
alternative School
.
Slide17A Trike-A-Thon was held to provide a fun day of cycling for the community; especially the children who live at the YWCA with their mothers. The bikes were provided by the Variety Club of Iowa. Helmets were provided by the Bicycle Collective.
Partnering with the YWCA and Variety Club of Iowa
Slide18YWCA Trike-A-Thon, cont.
Slide19Partnering with the Boys and Girls Club
Slide20And what’s on tap for this summer?
Training another group of youth for RAGBRAI
Cycling clinic in Evelyn Davis Park
Bike Camp at the John R. Grubb YWCA
Mentoring students to “Earn a Bike”
And . . .
Slide21Ewing Park home to BMX track; girls sought to competeBy MEGHAN V. MALLOY • community@dmreg.com
• June 3, 2010
One of the first women in the nation to competitively
ride BMX bikes
, Weston-Knauer, 61, overcame a broken neck to continue developing the BMX sport in Des Moines and throughout the United States.
The Ewing Park Club has 35 regular members, ranging in age from 5 to 61, Conrath said.
Missing
from the club this season, however,
are females, something Conrath and Weston-Knauer want to change.
Slide22Other partnership activities have included:
Bike tune-ups at Moulton Elementary and Drake
Neighborhood
Bike/trike safety, maintenance and etiquette
courses
Bike to school safe routes developed
East Side Boxing Club bike tune-up in conjunction
with the Police athletic league Dream team mentor Partnership with Scavo Campus “Bookin’ On Bikes” Mentor youth through an “Earn-A-Bike” program
Slide23We look to the future to:
Expand the partnerships
With partners, get more bicycles and
helmets to youth
With partners, create more cycling
activities in neighborhoods and parks
Bring more schools on line
Develop more safe routes for students
Slide24As a community, there is so much more that we can do to assure that children have a safe and
serviceable bicycle that enables them to roam their neighborhoods as they begin to explore their world
.
Kittie D. Weston-Knauer