OAST News November 2020

OAST News November 2020

Click here for the November 2020 issue of OAST News. Read about:Responding to the ‘new normal’; Timiskaming and Brantford/Brant County AST Spotlight; A bike park with a difference; and...
Responding to the ‘new normal’

Responding to the ‘new normal’

Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.  They have quickly become essential responses to the COVID-19 pandemic that has gripped the world. With schools in Ontario undergoing major transformations to provide safe in-class as well as on-line instruction, local active school travel...
Timiskaming: Adding colour to the neighbourhood 

Timiskaming: Adding colour to the neighbourhood 

Recent efforts to boost walking and wheeling to school in Timiskaming District have proven that AST projects can serve a larger social function. At a time when COVID-19 painted the world grey, project staff and volunteers came together to paint brightly coloured...
Brantford & Brant County: Building a healthy future 

Brantford & Brant County: Building a healthy future 

The installation of new wayfinding signage around three elementary schools in Paris (Ontario) earlier this fall generated both excitement among local residents and headlines in the local newspaper. The signs, a first for the town, are part of a larger AST pilot...