Safe Routes to School Manager Megan Ramey, right, accepts the Gail and Jim Spann Educator of the Year award from Bill Nesper, executive director of the League of American Bicyclists at the National Bike Summit in Washington, D.C.
Contributed photoHOOD RIVER — Megan Ramey, Hood River County School District’s Safe Routes to School manager, has received the Gail and Jim Spann Educator of the Year award by the League of American Cyclists.
Ramey received the award at the National Bike Summitt in Washington, D.C., earlier this month. She has been the Safe Routes to School manager since 2021.
“This award recognizes a person who has worked to elevate bike education in their state/community,” reads the League of American Cyclists webpage (bikeleague.org).
“As an educator who plays with kids using bikes, there are thousands of joyful moments, especially when I teach older kids how to ride or play their favorite song for a bike ride,” she said. “As an advocate, I am addicted to winning grants, accruing almost $10 million in the few years that I have had this job.
“Two of these grants were synergistic for Odell a 3,000-person fruit packing town,” she continued. “Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) won the Youth Active Transportation grant from the Governor’s Highway Safety Association and the Mid Valley Elementary parent-teacher organization won an ODOT grant. The result was a demonstration ‘Puma Path,’ weekly walking bus, bike shed, fleet of learning bikes for kinder and fifth graders, new Smith helmets, Tern E-bike giveaway and Dero fix-it stations for the elementary and middle schools in town.”
Ramey said she hopes the future for the bike movement looks a lot like the past, where children rode bikes to and from school, and to find friends. “I hope that in the future when families watch E.T., Goonies or Stranger Things, those scenes of children riding bikes to solve problems,” she said. “… The indicator of success is when it’s normal to see our streets full of free-range kids or moms riding side-by-side with their little ones.”
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