ST. LOUIS (KMOX)- Last June, KMOX introduced listeners to Yonnick Jones, the Co-Founder Williams Academy St Louis, a preschool that services families who have Children all the way to 13-years-old.
Previously, he came to tell KMOX about his school's partnership with Strider Educational Foundation and their "All Kids Bike"
All Kids Bike is a organization whose mission to teach every child in America how to ride a bike in kindergarten PE class, with the cost of the program underwritten by the Strider Education Foundation and supported locally through donations from individuals, businesses, local government agencies, and organizations.
On Friday on All Kids Bike Day, the Williams Academy is set to receive 24 new bikes and helmets with the help of HDR, architecture, engineering, environmental and construction services company who wanted to make a $360,000 investment to All Kids Bike because of a previous interview with Jones on KMOX.
Jones says that biking is critical for young kids because it teaches there's more forms of transportation besides cars and biking can be help improve health.
"It's like tasting gooey butter cake," said Jones on Total Information A.M. "You see the goodness happening and when you watch a young person grab the concept of anything, whether that's ABCs, 1-2-3s, or riding a bike. I mean, it's got that gooey butter cake feeling. It's just a good feeling inside."
Jones says his passion of helping kids learn how to bike stems from his childhood.
"Biking for me was also freedom. Once you get out there in the open road or the open place, you decide to ride your bike, you get a chance to express yourself in ways that you might not have when you're just sitting at home, maybe playing video games, right?" said Jones. "I tried to always pop Wheelies. I was never good at that."