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Central Alberta launches Spring into Safety-Events

Safe Communities Central Alberta presents its largest yet Spring into Safety-Events starting on Monday.

Safe Communities Central Alberta presents its largest yet Spring into Safety-Events starting on Monday.

“The ultimate goal is to make our communities safer,” said Richard Hornby, executive director of Safe Communities Central Alberta.

“This year we have a lot of messages we’re trying to get out to give back to the community.”

The safety series features an assortment of themes from bike safety to impaired driving to new water safety and school zone road safety events.

The events are as follows:

• Water Safety on the Red Deer River takes place on Monday at 1 p.m. at Fort Normandeau.

This event will feature mock launch and departure “parties,” which are intended to help decrease the amount of alcohol consumed by those who float down the river and prepare river users for they dangers they will face.

• Road Safety and Schools happens Tuesday at Hunting Hills High School at noon and G.W. Smith Elementary School at 2:30 p.m. RCMP and community volunteers will hand out postcards hand-drawn by students to drivers in the area.

Speed limit information and safety messages will be on the postcards.

• Guest speaker Robert Palser, the first Alberta Crown prosecutor to be designated as a qualified breathalyzer technician, will be on stage at the Michener Recreation Centre Auditorium on Wednesday at 11:30 a.m.

Palser will discuss facts, myths and the expected outcomes of new legislation on drinking and driving.

• Bicycle Safety: Helmet Rules and Lanes rides into Safety City at 3030 55th St. on Thursday, May 31, 2:30 p.m. Members of Safe Communities’ Bicycle, Walk and Roll Safety Coalition will be giving out helmets, lights and information at this kickoff event.

• Children’s Safety: Poisoning and Safety Seats will run on Friday, June 1, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. as part of the Children’s Festival in the Recreation Park.

The city’s Emergency Services and Alberta Health Services will have booths set up focusing on keeping harmful medications that could poison children out of sight and locked up.

There will also be information on hand about protecting your family from carbon monoxide poisoning.

For more information, visit www.safekidscanada.ca.

Up to date child safety seats will also be a topic of interest at the booths. For more information, visit www.saferoads.com/pdf/child-safety-seat-letter-size.pdf.

Safe Communities is also promoting other activities that advocate active learning when it comes to safety, such as the Wheel to School/Work Week running from June 2 to 9.

For more information, visit shapeab.com.

They will also be at the Bike Festival for the Kids from the Red Deer Boys and Girls Club at the Collicutt Centre on June 9 and 10 at 2:30 p.m.

For more information, visit centralalberta.safecommunities.ca or contact Hornby at 403-346-8101 or by email at sccca@telus.net.