Keiki Bike & Skateboard Safety Day returns to Wilcox Medical Center

The popular Keiki Bike & Skateboard Safety Day returns Saturday (June 28) for its 10th annual installment at Wilcox Medical Center in Līhuʻe.

Everyone is welcome to this free, fun, educational event frim 8 to 11 a.m. in the back parking lot at Wilcox Medical Center, located at 3-3420 Kūhiō Highway, past Same-Day Surgery.

The safety day gives Kaua‘i keiki the chance to learn how to ride bicycles and skateboards safely with the help of Wilcox employees and volunteers as well as community supporters. It also gets them and their ‘ohana outside.

Some kids will even win a new bike or skateboard to take home.

Families can engage in various educational and hands-on activities, including:

• A helmet-fitting station, where Wilcox Medical Center staff and volunteers will provide kids with free helmets (while supplis last) that fit them properly. Kids can then decorate their helmets with stickers.
• A bike safety inspection station.
• Bike and skateboard skill enhancement courses.
• Concussion prevention education.
• Much more.

Kaua‘i County Mayor Derek Kawakami told KHON2 during the 2022 installment of the event that there was no place else he’d rather be that day.

“I mean, it takes a village to raise a child. And when you come out and see how many volunteers have come out to support our keiki and support our families, to encourage them to be healthy, make healthy choices, get active and jump on a bike, get on a skateboard, and they’re getting all the safety lessons that they need,” the mayor said.

Attendees can register online or at the event. Online registration closes at 2 p.m. today (June 27).

Call 808-245-1198 for additional information.