CITRUS HEIGHTS — A Citrus Heights elementary school Tuesday kicked off its annual Biketober event, which encourages children to either bike or walk to school.
Nichole Harshbarger is a teacher at Kingswood Elementary who helped organize Biketober, where all 568 students can join together in a bike ride from the nearby Target store to school each Tuesday in October.
“It’s a huge community feel and the kids get so excited when their parents drop them off,” Harshbarger said. “They will ride donuts around and then when we are all going, it doesn’t matter if you are slow or fast because we’re all together.”…