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Show B3 The Salt Lake Tribune HOME & FAMILY Friday, January5, 1996 Reader Requests a Plain Wooden Coffin How safe is your playground? Pentel 150,000 children annually suffer equipment-relatedinjuries, according to the Consumer ‘ederation of America. The following checklist can help evaluate the safetyof your local playground: Dear Ann: Yitzhak Rabin, the late prime ministerof Israel, was Clearance zone under and around equipment: @ Stationary climbing Protective surface under or Equipment deterioration or equipment: Minimum fall zoneof8 feet. @ Slides should have a minimum of8 feet behind and on eachside. Platformsfor corrosion: Head entrapmen around Equipmen t height Approximately 75 climbing percentofinjuries are causedby falls equipment and slides should not exceed feet for school-age Rust and chipped paint on metal components, loose splinters, cracks and decay on wood, splitting or cracking on plastic Openings with interior dimensions between 3.5 Surfaces should be madeof synthetic or @ Swings should have a children or6 feet loose-fill materials such as wood chips. wood mulch, pea gravel and sand with at least a 9- to 12inch depth minimum of 6 feet on each side anda minimum distance of twice the height of the pivot point in front of and behind the swing seats for preschool-age draped plain wooden box. For years, I have considered leaving instructions that the same happen to me I fear myheirs might buya faney casket costing thousands of dollars. Please help me get things arranged in advance. Surely funeral homesdon't sell plain boxes. Must I prearrange with a carpenter? Would a funeral home still offerits hearse and graveside servicesif I didn't buyoneoftheir caskets? Would a cemeteryaccept meina plain box? Would I be violating any state. local or federal t hazards: and 9 inches may cause entrapment. parts Pivot poin regulations? Howabout finding out for us Ann? Can an American man be carried to his grave in the same inching Exposed moving pat manner asIsrael's Yitzhak Rabin? — Arapahoe, that could pinch or guardrails or Swing seats: Should be made of lightweight, materials such as rubber. Pm, Swing seat No more than two Dear Arapahoe: All Orthodox Jewsareburiedin a simple wooden box —nonails, no metal. Ifthis platforms. is your wish. make sure your next of kin. or the person who will be responsible for your burial knows that it is Almost all mortuaries are will- ing to provide a simple wooden box. Should a mortuary be unwill- swing seats or one tire swing should be suspended in the ing to handle the service unless samesection of a structure. The distance between you buyan expensive casket from them, call another mortuary adjacent swing seats should beat least 2 feet bars are made ofheavy, rigid materials that may cause serious head- impact injuries Exposed footings or obstacles such as rocks or roots. People have become more en maintenance or vandalism: Scattered Ahimal swings, multiple occupancy swings, swinging exercise rings and trapeze Tripping hazards; ———a4 lightened about burials and are opting for simplicity rather than ostentation, They are beginning to T NEWS SERVICE damaged A playground can bea child's paradise. But it also can be a danger zone. Eachyear, about 200,000 children land in U.S. hospital emergency roomswithinjuries related to playground equipment, The vast majorityof these injuries occur on public playgrounds, although about 51,000 happen on equipment at children’s homes Annually about 17 children in the United States die because of a playground injury — usually as the result of a fall or strangulation, which can occur when a child’s clothing gets caught in a piece of playground equipment. Donna Thompson, a physicaleducation teacherat the University of Northern Iowa and national expert on playgrounds, will use a $550,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Controlto create a national planto prevent, in particular, deaths andcrippling injuries caused byfalls and strangulation on playgrounds. Thompsonsays onenew area of scrutiny will be indoor playgrounds like those foundinside fast-food restaurants and children's indoor entertainment centers such as the Discovery Zone. Some of these appearsafe. she says, but safety guidelines have not yet beenestablishedfor them. ment was old, rusty, falling \ “The playgrounds are getting better.” she says. parents are the real keys to playground safety to do more work to help train peopleto do abetter job of main tenance and to have propersurfaces. Therearestill places where the surface is just grass conducted in 22 states supervision by “Westill need Without parental supervision Kids will get on the outside ofa tubeslideand walk on top of it. or they'll swing two to three people on a swing.” says Steve Dra anddirt.” park planner with the Des Playground operators have spent thousandsof dollars in recent years to update equipment But playground-injury-preven- Moines, lowa, Park and Recreation Department Most accidents happen when tion specialists say playground renovation must be a continuing process, and playground opera- points out, adding that on-thespot decisions by parents or other the parents aren't there,’ to keep up with newsafety recommendations madeafteryet another hazard comesto light he Ann Short, mentof Public Health, urges parents not to take playgroundsafety cialist with Iowa State University extension in Polk County school or city has provided the equipment, it must besafe Sharon Mays, a family-life spe fessional cleaner is gruesome And some, like the father who can't bear to enter the basement after his teen-ager shoots himself, call Cicinato an angel for hire “Hfthis happenedto you, and you had to clean it yourself. could you?’ Cicinato asks Most peoplecan’t Cicinato, head of X Special Cleaning Services, deep-cleans carpets to expunge blood stains, removes soiled bed linens and pillows, and uses a windshield scraper to remove brain matter fromwalls. There is no stain too nauseating for Cicinato to tackle. her business brochure states. including spots from urine, feces. vomit bone fragments, maggots and chilling “others to be discussed,” mit. which is hard to come by. Every day, Canadian Customs confiscates guns from visitors and mate. I submit the following: We met at 9 at a ballroom dance. walking toward each oth- subjects them to a minimum fine of $500 for not declaring the weapons. If you are ceming to Canada and carrying a gun, please advise er, Canadian Customs upon entering request for stories with a special twist about how you met your almost colliding. Both of us jumpedin the samedirection and again a second time andathird At that point, he grabbed my arm and said, getting “Well. as long as you're in my way, we might as well dance I fixed him good, I never got out of his way again. Wecelebrated our 55th wedding They will keep the firearm for you to pick up on your return stateside. — Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada DearFriend: It’s obvious that Canada doesn't want any gun-totin’ U.S. citizens up there. I say. Hoorayfor them!” anniversary this year. After our wedding. Earl andI moved15 times, but I didn’t mind. He is such a wonderful mate Backtracking a bit. when attending high school, we seniors looked downon the lowly sopho- mores. One of those “lowly sopho: mores” went into the ministry. It Gem of the Day: Any person who can take a pill at a public water fountain deserves to get well Write to Ann Landers c/o Chicago Tribune, 435 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611 mind them of” thetragedy. Ci cinato says Cicinato’s feeis $100 an hour for a two-person crew. with a three-hour minimum. She works whenever she gets the call, sometimes in the middle of the night after a murder victim has been discovered say get up and go.” Cicinato If this stuffsets, I’m real- Sleeping Single in a Double Bed @ Continued from B-1 the night person gets out of bed and does what hewants to do,” Others look at going to bed togetheras a sacred ritual Carolyn Bushong, a Denver ly going to have a hard time Cieinato recalls a woman who attempted suicide by slashing herself, than ran from room to room, lying on each bed and sofa, staggering through three psychotherapist and author of Loving Him Without Losing You (Berkley: $4.95.), says she and her bathrooms, our most soft, vulnerable, private pressing bloody palms against windows. The woman survived. But the carpet was a disaster live-in boyfriend always try to crawl into bed together I think it bonds the relationship.” Bushong says. “We have moments we don't give to the rest of the world Mary Jo McCurley, also a Dal- At 42. Cicinato lives in a serupulously tidy apartment with her husband, Camden. N.J., po lice detective Craig Milbury las who inspiredher cleaning busi- says shenever sleeps without her husband, Mike ness with stories of erime scenes I wondered who cleanedit Cicinato says. to do it “Somebody has divorce attorney When they're working indiffer- ent cities, they rendezy us before bedtime, she s We tryto makesurewe re not apart We know more [about play- is crucial groundsafety] now. We needto be utilizing the information,” she Just because it’s brand new doesn't mean you want to assume says. “It's a thing that people don’t think about.” Mays WINTER SALE Dueto a year-end overstock situation, the ELNA Sewing Machine Co.of U.S.A.is offering for sale a limited number of 1995 HEAVY DUTY FREE ARM Multi/STITCH Automatic sewing machines that are made of METAL and sewon all typesoffabrics: Levis, upholstery, nylon, stretch, vinyl and LEA’ THER. 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MeCurley FranciscoDesign for granted or to assume that if a Andeven with top-notch equip: everything is OK.” after murder, suicideandserious accidents in the home Somepeople think thepro. an injury-preven- tion plannerat the Iowa Depart- equipment built in 1981-82 that’s not upto 1990's standards,” says maintenance Dear Ann: In response to your changein equipment have a piece of ment, whenthey come to Canada, Many USS. citizens don’t knowthat carrying a gunin Canadais not legal unless you have a firearms per- adult supervisors can make playgrounds inherently safer without tors are sometimes hard-pressed “You could what matters I leave nothing there to re- Cicinato mops up misery: She outs the most damned spots left and Washington, D.C Playground planners point out that proper useof equipment and training loved ones whenthey are aliveis By Eileen Smith GANNETT NEWS SERVICE BELLMAWR, N.J. — Joann lic playgrounds found that more than 90 percent pose serious health andsafetyris ccording to the Consumer Federation of America and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. The sur apart.” She says work by aplayground-safety consortiumin Iowa that she is part of has increased safety knowledge. awareness and Dear Ann: Please advise your readers not to bring their guns realize that how we treat our Service Removes Traces of Tragedy A 1994 surveyof 443 U.S. pub- Five years ago, when Thompson did a randomsurveyof 150 Lowa playgrounds, she foundthat “they weren't good — particularly the surfaces, The playground equip- gether missing or Play It Safe With Kids’ Equipment By Betsy Rubiner was he who gave the blessing at our anniversary party 55 years later. — G.L., Menasha, Wis. Dear Menasha: What a sweet letter. You and Earl are lovely role models for us all. May you have many more happyyears to- debris or litter. Strangulation hazards: Open “S’-type hooks on swings and any equipment component that could hook or catch, especially at the top of slides, cguld cause strangulation: GAN N.C protective barriers on elevated walkways and ramps. impact-absorbing ANN LANDERS carried to his grave in a flag- e Showroon 10 Park City 1890 Bonanza Dr Mon-Sat 1-6 645-7072 |
