News Release
To: All News Media
Date: December 12, 2006
Re: Third Grade Safety Belt Program
OHIO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AWARDS $1,100 FOR THIRD GRADE SAFETY BELT PROGRAM
The Richland County Sheriff's Office will be participating in Ohio's 2007 Third Grade Safety Belt Program running from JANUARY 9TH TO MAY 1ST, 2007 within the Sheriff's primary policing jurisdiction. Approximately 550 students are expected to receive certificates for participating in the FY-2007 safety belt educational program. Students will learn about safety belts through discussions, activities and demonstrations.
Under the agreement approved by the Ohio Department of Public Safety (ODPS), the Sheriff's Office will receive the amount of $1,100 for deputy services in instructing the program at the following elementary schools: BUTLER, CRESTVIEW, DISCOVERY, EASTVIEW, LUCAS, MADISON SOUTH, MANSFIELD CHRISTIAN, MIFFLIN, SHILOH, ST. MARY'S, and WOOSTER HEIGHT'S.
SHERIFF SHELDON said, the Third Grade Safety Belt Program is offered by the Governor's Highway Safety Office, an agency of the Ohio Department of Public Safety, through local police agencies and sheriffs departments. The classroom presentation consists of a thirty-minute lesson that will be taught by Deputies Pat Smith and Rick Gunder.
Upon completion of the program students will receive the Safety Belt Deputies pledge to always wear their safety belts and to encourage others to do the same. Each student will also receive special materials and additional information to take home to their parents.
This program creates a good buckle up habit for life. The ODPS/Governor's Highway Safety Office provides the curriculum materials.
