Healthy Living and Seniors Minister Deanne Crothers was joined today by more than 1,300 staff and students from local schools to attempt to break the existing Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people wearing helmets.
Children and youth across Manitoba will soon ride their bicycles, wearing new bike helmets purchased as part of the province’s Low-Cost Bike Helmet Initiative.
The province’s low-cost bicycle helmet program, which has distributed more than 80,000 helmets to Manitoba children and their families, has been renewed for another year.
A successful, low-cost helmet program has been joined by a new, interactive website, Ride2win.ca, to promote increased use of helmets as part of Safe Kids Week 2010.
