Join our safety luncheon that meets the second Wednesday of every month from 12noon-1:00 in conference center #1 at GSMC…and make safety a priority in your community.
Accomplishments
- Walk & Bike Event (200 students participated)
- Ask to present at ODOT’s Safety Conference in Salem (2010)
- Safety Belt Diversion Classes (working with Hermiston Municipal Courts offers diversion classes monthly)
- Assisted with recruitment of an instructor for the 55 Alive senior driving program
- Motorized Wheelchair safety campaign (has served more than 50 seniors with safety education, reflective flags & reflective lights)
- Teen Driving Presentation (over 700 HHS students in attendance)
- Bike Rodeos & bike helmet distribution (11 bike rodeos just last year, over 300 helmets fitted on children & adults for safer riding)
- Car Seat Clinics—teamed up with Safe Kids to offer three car seat clinics
- Improved railroad crossing on Gettman Road
- Domestic Violence Car Seat Program (Supplied & fitted caseworker vehicles with car seats for safe traveling “to” & “from” safe house)
- Townsend Safety Project (in progress)
- Safety Trailer for Hermiston Fire & EMS (wrote grant & secured funds to purchase safety trailer, as well as equipment)
- Assisted with crosswalk installation on Elm
- Worked with Good Shepherd to implement an infant car seat program
- Improved shrub/brushes near Sandstone Middle School
- Completed a Safety Directory for community members & professionals
- Team up with Good Shepherd to offer Safety Saturdays…KOHU radio program that reaches wide audience
- Numerous presentations to businesses & schools