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Brookside, Manor and Wade Thomas win Green Ways to School awards.

As Ross Valley students headed back to school yesterday, very few of them caught a traditional school bus or a ride from a parent. With Safe Routes to School based in Fairfax, the push for students to ride their bikes and walks is accompanied by signage to encourage drivers to slow down, safe routes outlined for students with bike lanes and paths, and adults chaperoning the youngest alternative-transporters.

In fact, Brookside, Wade Thomas, and Manor were all Green Ways to School award winners. Green Ways to School is a new county-wide campaign of Safe Routes to Schools that launched in January 2010. Funded through a grant from the Marin Community Foundation's Climate Change Initiative, the campaign consists of a new web-based SchoolPool trip-matching program, and contests and promotions that encourage students and their parents to find Green Ways to School.

There are three categories of cash awards:  Green Ways to School awards for outstanding achievement in the 2009-10 school year; Program Achievement awards for outstanding achievement since the school originally entered the Safe Routes to Schools program; and SchoolPool awards for schools that had the highest participation in the on-line SchoolPool trip-matching program.

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Manor and Wade Thomas tied for second place in the Green Ways to School category; Brookside Lower took third in the Program Achievement category; and Brookside Upper tied for first and won $500 in the SchoolPool category.

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