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LOCAL, NATIONAL ‘LOVE THE BUS’ EVENTS RAISE AWARENESS, APPRECIATION FOR SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS More than 200 Calvert County, Md.,
school bus drivers were honored last month in the district’s third annual “Love the Bus” celebration. Ed Cassidy, director of transportation for Calvert County Public Schools, said the event took place on Valen- tine’s Day. Beach Elementary School students gave their bus drivers snack bags, while Appeal Elementary students made Valentine’s Day cards to give to drivers, along with pastries. “Bus drivers deserve a special ‘thank you’
for helping get each child’s school day off to a good start, and for helping each school day end on a positive note,” said Cassidy. Tis year’s national “Love the Bus” event
in Arlington, Va., featured former U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood as the guest speaker. ASBC invited locally elected officials to join the Feb. 12 celebra- tion as well. “National School Bus Safety Week (October 21-25, 2013) has long needed a
£ U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood poses with students at Tuckahoe Elementary School in Arlington, Va., during the American School Bus Council's National Love the Bus event on Feb. 12.
bookend on the American school transpor- tation calendar,” remarked Michael Martin, NAPT’s executive director. “Love the Bus fills the bill perfectly.”
Houston’s City Hall also sported yellow lights through Feb. 13 in recognition of the hundreds of thousands of student transpor- tation personnel nationwide, and especially those at Houston ISD. Mayor Annise Parker ordered the light- ing beginning Friday as part of “Love the Bus” month, an annual celebration of school bus drivers as well as the safety, convenience, and educational support afforded by school bus operations. Te American School Bus Council developed the nationwide “Love the Bus” event in 2007. “We are delighted that Mayor Annise
D. Parker is lighting up City Hall in yellow to recognize the HISD transportation department,” Houston ISD Transportation Manager Chester Glaude said in a state- ment. “I’m so proud of the outstanding job that our transportation team has performed. Safety is always at the forefront of every- thing we do to ensure that students are transported to and from school unharmed.”
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