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What is Safety Town?

Safety Town is a realistic, child-sized town designed to provide a complete hands-on safety education for children entering kindergarten in the fall.  Safety Town consists of a child sized town which has working traffic signals, miniature buildings, cross walks, complete with personal traffic provided by the children on tractors. We at Safety Town wish to give the children a hands-on experience to take with them.    

Safety Town is a one-week course that focuses on teaching children safe practices both at school and at home.  The children are instructed on when, where, and how to cross the street.  They are taught bike safety, pedestrian safety, school bus safety, fire safety, seat belt safety, 911 emergency calls, stranger danger and what to do if they find a gun. This program is also geared towards getting children to be comfortable around Law Enforcement and many other important agencies and what the many different uniforms and cars look like.

The program runs Monday through Thursday, 9:00am to 11:30am.  Classes start at 9:30am, but parents are asked to have their little ones there by 9:00am for roll call and other special events prior to class starting.  An early bird breakfast is available Monday through Thursday.  Parents must have their child in the Cafeteria between the hours of 8:30am and 9:00am if they want breakfast. A special graduation ceremony is held on Friday morning starting at 9:00am, with guest speakers attending.  Safety Town is held at Northwood Junior High School, 700 Gulf Road, Elyria, Ohio.

Registration cards are available at the school where your child will attend kindergarten.  They are also available at the Elyria Police Department or you can register over the phone by calling Gina Rothgery at 440-326-1360.

Safety Town is FREE to all citizens of Elyria and surrounding areas through the cooperation of the Elyria Police Department, the Elyria Kiwanis Club, and other generous donors.  The class are filled on a first come, first serve basis. Parents are welcome to stay during the classes.

Safety Town would like to pay thanks to all the supporters and sponsors of Safety Town. Thanks to these businesses, public and private agencies civic organizations for helping make Safety Town the "Safest Place In Town!"  

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Goals for Safety Town?
Our goal here at Safety Town, is to ensure the safety of our children. The volunteers at Safety Town dedicate their time to teaching the children proper street safety. These are some eye opening statistics on road safety.

Children suffer a higher risk of disability or death through preventable injury than all childhood diseases combined.
70% of all fire ending in a childhood death are started by children.
Bicycle and Pedestrian accidents are the leading cause of non-fatal injuries to children.



2011 Safety Town Schedule

Safety Town consists of several one-week sessions:

  • June 20th-24th
  • June 27th-July 1st
  • July 18th-22nd
  • July 25th-29th

Monday through Thursday 9:00am to 11:30am

Special graduation ceremony on Friday at 9:00am

Parents are asked to have their little ones there by 9:00am for roll call and other special events prior to class starting.  A light breakfast will be provided in the cafeteria from 08:30-09:00.  Breakfast is provided by Lorain National Bank by way of School board member, Evelyn France.

Safety Town is open for children entering Kindergarten.
To sign-up your child, you may call Gina Rothgery at 440-326-1360.

For all other inquiries please contact, Officer Wandra A. Ward, Safety Town Director,

at 440-326-1226

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Cedar Point Trip Information

The Safety Town Program is Offering Discounted Cedar Point tickets for purchase on-line.

The tickets are to be used on July 30th, 2011 ONLY.

You may purchase up to 8 tickets a day.

Click here to purchase tickets on-line

Safety Town Announcements

2011 will be the 53rd year of Safety Town!!!

2010 Graduating Class---334 Students

2009 Graduating Class---356 Students

2008 Graduating Class---315 Students

2007 Graduating Class---406 Students

2006 Graduating Class---450 Students

2005 Graduating Class---400 Students

2004 Graduating Class---355 Students

2003 Graduating Class---392 Students

2002 Graduating Class---407 Students

2001 Graduating Class---455 Students