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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 is Monday through Thursday, 9:00am to 11:30am, with a special graduation ceremony on Friday morning starting at 9:00am, with guest speakers attending.
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 Miss Denise at 326-1222.
Safety Town is FREE to all citizens of Elyria and surrounding areas through the cooperation of the Elyria Police Department, the Kiwanis Club, and other donors. 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. |
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| 2007 Safety Town Schedule | |
Safety Town consists of several one-week sessions beginnning June 16th, 2008 and runs through the week of July 28th. There is no Safety Town the Week of June 30th. We have weeks open for children entering Kindergarten. For all other inquiries please contact, Officer Wandra A. Ward, Safety Town Director, at 440-326-1226 |
| Safety Town Announcements |
2008 is the 50th year of Safety Town!!! 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 |
Children suffer a higher risk of disability or death through preventable injury than all childhood diseases combined.