Every student at Cameron Elementary School will now be safer when they bike, skate or rollerblade. Thanks to the generosity of the community, all 300 received new bike helmets.

The students heard the news and received their helmets at a Monday afternoon assembly in the school’s gymnasium. The initiative came through a collaboration between Cameron Police Chief Shawn Allman and Cameron Volunteer Fire Chief Mike Simms.

Allman had visited Cameron Elementary’s Pre-K students to teach them about bicycle safety and wanted to make sure those students had properly fitted helmets. At the same time, Simms asked the school about starting a broader helmet safety initiative in memory of his sister Cathy, who had died in a bicycle accident as a child.

“We kind of sparked the idea,” Allman said, “but

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