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In photos: A look back at past Safety Town events
Children participate in different hands-on actvities during the Safety Town program
Children participate in different hands-on activities to learn about traffic safety and other safety-related issues
School resource office Theon Ward of the Lake Geneva Police Department talks to children about safety
School resource officer Theon Ward of the Lake Geneva Police Department talks to children about safety during a recent Safety Town program in this file photo.
Children from a recent Safety Town program use a smoke house to practice fire safety
Children from a recent Safety Town program use a smoke house to practice fire safety and how to exit a burning building.
Big Wheel
Alyana Green, 5, tools around Safety Town on a Big Wheel cycle during the week-long program aimed at teacher kids about traffic and other common safety hazards.
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The Walworth County Smokehouse is also a part of Safety Town, which saw a 50-percent increase in attendance this year.
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Kids in Safety Town get to see emergency vehicles up close.
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Children in Safety Town learn safety behavior from certified teachers, firefighters and police.
Waiting
Nate Freeman, 5, and Allison Hill, 5, wait for the railroad safety arm to raise up so they can safely proceed on the streets of Safety Town. (Photo by Chris Schultz/Regional News)
Grace Lovell
Grace Lovell, 5, above, gets a ride on a Power Cot on the back of the Walworth Rescue Squad, while Alyana Green, 5, at right, gets to tool around on an original Big Wheel, complete with seat belt, and Walworth police officer Jessie Lewin, below, fits Caleb McIntyre, 6, with a pair of handcuffs during a Safety Town visit Jun 28 to the Walworth Fire Department. (Photos by Chris Schultz/Regional News)
Rescue gear
Olivia Kovarik, an advanced EMT with the Walworth Fire Department, demonstrates Rescue Task Force gear for students at the Safety Town program. (Photo by Chris Schultz/Regional News)
Pedestrians
Safety Town instructor Kelsie Koening, Safety Town student Gabriel Rodriguez and instructor Elliott Vail take a walk around Safety Town making sure the kids on scooters keep an eye out for pedestrians. (Photo by Chris Schultz/Regional News)
PowerCot
Cory Schultz, a Walworth advanced EMT, gives Alyana Green, 5, a ride on a Power Cot from the back of the Walworth rescue squad during a Safety Town field trip to the Walworth Fire Department on June 28. (Photo by Chris Schultz/Regional News)
Lewin.boldger
Walworth Police Officer Jessie Lewin, left, and Cathy Boldger, Walworth kindergarten teacher who helped found Safety Town, ready to do a bike safety presentation to Safety Town students in Boldger's kindergarten classroom. (Photo by Chris Schultz/Regional News)
Instructors
Safety Town's student instructors for 2019, from left, Elliott Vail, Karlie Koening, Kelsie Koening, Wyatt Vail and A.J. Hartmann. (Photo by Chris Schultz/Regional News)
Jaycees donate to Safety Town
Celebrating a $500 donation from the Lake Geneva Jaycees to the Safety Town program are staff and students shown with Jaycees representatives Tyler Leech, Jake Lasch and Sam Lasch. This year, Safety Town was held from June 10 to June 14 at Lake Geneva Middle School. (Contributed photo/Regional News)
Jaycees Safety Town big group
Yes the Guys in pictures are of the Jaycee’s officers position.
Also the Safety Town picture is from right to left is Secretary Jake Lasch, President Ryan Lasch, External VP Eric Akuetteh. The teenagers in gray shirts are volunteers to the little guys in the neon green shirts. Safety town was between June 11 and June 15
Safety Town is an early childhood safety education program designed for children who are
at least 5 years of age and who are entering 5K kindergarten in the Fall. During a 15 hour
program (3 hours per day for 5 days), children learn safety behavior under the guidance of
certified teachers and qualified professionals such as firefighters and police personnel.
Children learn safety lessons through role playing, games, art projects, stories, movies and
field trips. Children will also learn traffic and bike safety by driving their “cars” in Safety
Town. Learning experiences are designed to be fun and non-threatening, so children look
forward to every day of Safety Town.
The program has been in existence in Lake Geneva for over 35 years. Now many Safety
Town graduates are sending their own children to Safety Town!
The Lake Geneva Jaycees donated the “cars” the kids used and store them throughout year.
