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DOING IT<br />
FOR THE<br />
By Krista Carlson<br />
Photos by Jon Lake<br />
www.jonlakephotography.com<br />
While many Safe Routes to School programs<br />
focus on incentives and safety for children<br />
biking and walking to school, here<br />
in Bakersfield, California there is a focus on simply<br />
getting kids to be active, outdoors and healthy. And<br />
thanks to one guy’s itch to play bike polo, and no reservations<br />
to seize an opportunity, kids on the Southeast<br />
side of Bakersfield now have a new way to spend their<br />
afternoons one day a week.<br />
Kids bike polo was brought to the park in 2011<br />
by Brian DeLaCerda, a former Safe Routes to School<br />
coordinator, who has been one of Bike Bakersfield’s<br />
only transplant staff members. “I realized that I had<br />
a lot of creative freedom,” he explains. “I just tried<br />
to bring in things that I was a part of in Austin and<br />
Boston.”<br />
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