SAFETY EDUCATION

We can’t believe it is January already and we are breezing through our third program of the year!  Currently we are visiting schools teaching the students about winter safety.  We focus on two main areas, dressing warm, and safe play. That means not forgetting our mitts, toques, and boots as well as remembering to wear a helmet while sledding, skiing and skating safely.

Patti and Jessica wrapped up 2003 with their Motor Vehicle Safety program.  While serving as a good reminder for students to sit in the back seat if there is an airbag and to buckle up at all times, Patti and Jessica took it to the next level. 
Bringing deployed airbags and seatbelts into the classroom they explained how science gives us these tools to keep us safe and our job is to respect and use them properly.  A great big thanks goes out to Hepp’s Auto Wreckers who donated the used parts.
Here are couple of the factoids we shared with the classes:
- Did you know that an airbag deploys at a speed of 334 km/h, faster than a person can blink?
- That objects, including the body, weigh 30 times what they normally weigh if the vehicle is in a collision at 40 km/h?
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The tree has been put away, the chocolate box empty, and the champagne glasses washed out.  We hope everyone had a festive season and are ready for the New Year!  Safety  City has already planned several events for this year.  Keep watching for more information.

On February 5, 2004 Safety City will be holding its 9th AGM!  Last year we issued a plea for financial support for the crisis we were then facing.  Since then amazing things have happened.  Everyone is invited to celebrate our continued operation and see where Safety City is striving to go. 

When : February 5, 2004
Where: Henderson Lake Golf Club
Time:   6 pm cocktails
6:30 pm dinner
Meeting to follow
Please RSVP for dinner by February 3

This newsletter is about to graduate to the world of email.  If you would like to receive the Safety City newsletter, notices, updates, bulletins and invitations via email, please contact the Safety City office.  We still have the phone and you can call us at 317-1955, but if you are sitting at the computer and wish to drop us a line, email us at scsl@theboss.net. All notices will be sent in Microsoft Publisher or Word.

No worries though if you don’t want this newsletter by email, we can still send it out in the snail mail.
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Safety City’s Citizenship Campaign is now on! For $20/family you can become citizens of Safety City, supporting our efforts in making this community and surrounding area a safer place for all students and their families.

By purchasing a Citizenship your family will receive:
+  Free access to Parent Clinics
+  Personal invitations to events held throughout the year.
+  A vote at our Annual General Meeting.
+  A chance for your child to be Student Mayor, Police Chief or Fire Chief for the year!

If you and your family are citizens please check your cards for expiration date. Please let us know if you would like to renew your membership.
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A great big scary Halloween Thank you goes out to the Lethbridge Herald and the NIE coordinator, Cecelia Frohlick, for organizing a “Pumpkin Fundraiser’ for Safety City.

During the weeks before Halloween the Herald gave away pumpkins in exchange for a donation to Safety City and raised $150 for Safety City programs!
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Each January we like to publish a list of donors from the previous year.  We would like to thank everyone for your incredible support in 2003.  Our continued success depends on people and companies like you and yours! 

PLATINUM (OVER $ 25,000)
Canbra Foods
Government of Alberta - (Community Initiatives Program)
Independent Order of Foresters
Kiwanis Club of Lethbridge

GOLD ($ 10,000 - $ 24,999)
Associated Canadian Travelers
Chinook Health Region

SILVER ($ 5,000 - $ 9,999)
Women of the Moose

BRONZE ($ 1,000 - $ 4,999)
Alberta Motor Transport Association
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 987
The Brick
Canadian Tire Corporation
Harmon Chapman
International Police Association
Knights of Columbus No. 1490
Lakeview School Council
Dr. Keith V. Robin

FRIENDS ($ 100 - $ 999)
John Banfield
Jack Chapman
Father Leonard Van Tighem School
Glenn Fosbender
Lloyd Hatt
Kinette Club of Lethbridge
Lethbridge Nissan
McIntyre Ranch Company
Mike Mountain Horse School
Roadhouse Golf Tournament
Royal Canadian Legion #4
St. Paul School
Soundgarden Over 21 Club
Southern Chiropractic

S.C. SUPPORTERS (UNDER $ 100)
We would also like to recognize and thank all of our other individual donors and families who joined Safety City through our Citizenship Program.

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
 -JOHN CHURTON COLLINS-

Safety City: “Instilling lifelong safety attitudes within children.”