Xavier Glassley-Sams had never ridden a bike before he entered this year’s bicycle safety training class at Hawthorne School, put on by the Santiam Spokes cycling club.
Xavier and his fellow fifth-graders started the six-day class the first week of May, in which club members taught them bicycle skills, safety and rules of the road. The bicycle safety program is an extension of Safe Routes to School.
Club member Ken Bronson, who has taught the…