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Versailles rodeo teaches bicycle safety

VERSAILLES – Most kids did the bike safety course once then headed into the firehouse to check out the bicycles to be given away and grab a hot dog (or three or four). Not Isabella Kilburn. According to one volunteer she must have done the course at least a half dozen times. The most recent time, she did it backwards.

“They told her she couldn’t do it backwards,” mom JoAnne Kilburn said. “So she did just to prove she could.” Following another trip through the course, the volunteer told the youngster she might have to do it blindfolded the next time.

Kids of a variety of ages were told to follow the arrows through a five-part course. Some zipped through like old pros, others – with training wheels on their bikes – had trouble getting past slight depressions in the concrete. According to a volunteer, some of them have balance issues, “but they’ll get it.”

Isabella and 102 other kids turned out for the annual Versailles Bike Rodeo, sponsored by Versailles EMS and Versailles Fire Department. Started by Tom and Shila Magoto over 15 years ago, the event was officially turned over to the fire and EMS departments last year...

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