Ups and Downs

Up

To Genevra Walters, superintendent of Kankakee, Ill., schools, who is seeking to remedy the problem of youngsters riding unlicensed dirt bikes and ATVs on city streets by working on a Kankakee County Youth Empowerment Program grant, which would establish an off-road course and encompass mentoring, tutoring, job training and community service. Walters hopes to include the National Youth Project Using Minibikes, a 50-year-old program that mentors more than 1,500 boys and girls each year.

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To Northwest Motorcycle Association and the Pacific Northwest Four Wheel Drive Association for chalking up a combined total of more than 2,000 hours of volunteer service in the Cle Elum Ranger District of the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest in Washington state.

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To the Buffalo Soldiers Motorcycle Club for donating 600 reusable masks to teachers in Clarksville, Tenn., as schools there began the fall semester under coronavirus restrictions.

Down

To the attorneys for trucker Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, who stands accused of several crimes in connection with a 2019 crash that killed seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire. Zhukovskyy’s lawyers claimed that some of his statements regarding drug use and his actions should be excluded from his trial because they came after he said he did not want to answer any more questions. A judge denied the motion on Oct. 14, ruling that Zhukovskyy’s Miranda rights were not violated.