Mayor Turner will meet 8-year old girl who sent letter asking for safe school sidewalk

 

WHAT:
Mayor Sylvester Turner will travel to the Houston Heights to meet 8-year old Sophie Blitz. Sophie wrote the mayor to ask for sidewalk repairs so she could safely walk and ride her bike to Harvard Elementary.  (letter is included below) The sidewalk repairs are being finished today and Mayor Turner will be on hand to greet Sophie, inspect the work and walk with Sophie to get some gelato at Gelazzi on White Oak.

 

WHEN:
4 p.m., TODAY, April 21, 2017

 

WHERE:
430 Cortlandt, Houston to meet Sophie and then the mayor and Sophie will walk to 3601 White Oak Dr., Houston, TX  77007 for gelato.

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Here is Sophie's letter to Mayor Turner Dear Mayor,

My name is Sophie. I am 8 years old. I live at 430 Cortlandt Street. I am in the 2nd grade at Harvard

Elementary. There is an unfinished sidewalk on 5th and Cortlandt. I ride my bike to school so that is a

problem. I have to ride in the street now. My mom says it is not safe to ride my bike on the street. Can

you either build a bridge or finish the sidewalk? I will show you the bumpy sidewalk. My mom's phone

number is 713.449.9029. I can also show you where it is so maybe you could come to my house. It will

be better if you fix it so I can ride on the sidewalk and you can help rebuild the sidewalk because it is

bumpy. And there is a ditch where the bump is that is hard to ride over because I don't want to fall in

the ditch. If you come visit my house to see the problem sidewalk my mom says she will give me money

to take you to get gelato. We walk or ride bikes there from our house. If you want to ride your bike,

bring your bike. Do you have a bike? Or my mom can drive us there. Or we can walk. What day would be

best for you? I get out of school at 3:00 PM. I have swimming Tuesdays and Thursdays but I could skip if

that is the day you are comfortable with. My sister has piano lessons on Wednesdays so no

Wednesdays.

Thank you,

Sophie Blitz

P.S. My sister's name is Annie and she is 5 and she also rides her bike to school. She is in Kindergarten at

Harvard Elementary. She needs a safe way to get to school too.