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Show Safety coloring contest begins FARMINGTON-' "Little trick or treaters should be careful street crossers too' say the Davis County Health Department, The Davis County Clipper and Smith's Food and Drug. They are sponsoring a coloring contest to remind young children to do just that. Cartoon character, wary Walker, is featured in the contest. He is pan of a county-wide pedestrian safety curriculum that is being introduced to kindergarten through third grade children in the Davis School District. The coloring contest is an effort to reinforce the Wary Walker program pro-gram in the schools. Smith's Food and Drug'is providing pro-viding "I'm a Wary Walker Winner T-shirts for contest winners. Kindergarten through third grade children are eligible. They may cut out the coloring sheet in the Clipper, draw and color a Halloween costume on Wary Walker, and draw how he carefully crosses the street. Also parents and teachers should teach the child the three steps for crossing the street safely and write them on the color- ' ing sheet. (The three steps are included in-cluded in this article). All contest entries should be sent to : Wary Walker Contest, Davis County Health Department, P. O. Box 618, Farmington, Utah 84025 or The Davis County Clipper, 1370 South 500 West, Bountiful 84010. Deadline for the contest is October Oc-tober 24, 1990. There will be three winners selected from each grade level. Prizes will be awarded Oct. 26, 1990 and will be announced in the Oct. 30th issue of the Clipper. According to Rhonda Greenwood, Green-wood, Health Promotion Technician Techni-cian for the county, childhood pedestrian fatalities are the second leading cause of accidental death in Utahs children. Utah Department of Health figures show there were 124 pedestrian fatalities statewide in children up to 19 years of age from 1984 to 1987. There are approximately 54,000 school age children in Davis County Coun-ty with over 21,000 children ages five to nine. "It is hoped that through this new curriculum and coloring contest, children will learn safe street crossing procedures and there will be fewer pedestrian accidents ac-cidents in the coming year," she said. Greenwood reported that the urban ur-ban counties of Salt Lake, Utah, Weber and Davis account for nearly 68 percent of all the pedestrian fatalities. The same data also showed show-ed that boys were being killed and injured in greater numbers than girls. The days when most pedestrian accidents occurred were Monday and Friday. The fewest occurred oc-curred on the weekends. Safety experts recommend that parents and teachers should teach children the following careful crossing cross-ing steps: 1. Stop at the edge of the street; 2. Look all the way to the left, to the right, and left again; 3. Listen and be wary as you cross and keep on looking! For a safe Halloween, Greenwood Green-wood suggested decorating Halloween Hallo-ween costumes with retroflective tape and carrying a flashlight. Very , young children should always be , accompanied by an adult. Hallo- , ween sacks or buckets should be in j proportion to a child's size so he doesn't trip. Costumes should not drag and cause the child to stumble. Painted faces are more fun and much safer than masks. Parents r should go through their child's I Halloween sack and eliminate ques- I tionable treats. Children should be I allowed to visit only familiar I neighborhoods, and encouraged to I cross at comers and not mid-block. I Non-flammable materials are rec- I ommended for children's costumes. I Candles should not be carried by I children. I For more safety information call the Health Department at 451-3350. |