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Lewis County Soil & Water Conservation District
Holds 2024 Progressive Agriculture Safety Day®
Published: June 12, 2024 at
09:45 a.m.
By: Press Release from Lewis County Soil and Water
Conservation District
Lewis County Soil
& Water Conservation District Holds 2024 Progressive Agriculture Safety
Day®
On Wednesday, May
22, the Lewis County Soil and Water Conservation District held its annual
Progressive Agriculture Safety Day® at the Lewis County Fairgrounds. The Safety
Day teaches children lessons that help keep them, as well as their families,
safe and healthy.
At the event,
participants were divided into groups and took turns visiting 15 safety
learning stations. This year, 274 fifth grade students along with 31
teachers and chaperones from 7 different Lewis County schools attended this
event. 31 local volunteers were also
on site dedicating their time to teach lessons or provide
other program support.
The 2024 station lesson
topics were: Bicycle Safety (Adirondack Foothills Cycling Club), 911
Emergency Phone Procedures (Lewis County Dispatch), Gun Safety (NYS DEC), Vaping/Tobacco
Use Prevention (Lewis County Emergency Management), Fire Safety (Lowville Fire Dept.),
Tractor Safety (Cazenovia Equipment of Lowville NY), Tick and Lyme Disease
Prevention (Lewis County Public Health), Animal Safety (Lewis County Cornell
Cooperative Extension), Grain Bin Safety (Gold Star Feed and Grain), Disability
Awareness (Aaron Mayer), ATV Safety (Lewis County Recreation, Forestry
& Parks), Snowmobile Safety (Mike Leviker), Look
Alike Poisons (Lewis County Public Health), Electrical Safety (National
Grid), and Internet Safety (Lake Effect Tech). The stations included hands on and/or
visual demonstrations that helped to reinforce the various safety lessons
instructed.
Each student that
attended received a Progressive Agriculture Safety Day® t-shirt and a take
home bag containing a variety of items such as activity books, first aid
kits, reusable hot/cold packs, sunglasses, safety brochures, key chains,
pencils, stickers, neck gaiters, hand sanitizer and much more. Stewart’s
Shops donated milk for the event.
We are always
looking for local businesses to become involved in this event. To see how
you or your business can help, volunteer, or to contribute, contact the District’s
Treasurer and Progressive Agriculture Safety Day® Coordinator, Carla Yaw,
at (315) 376-6122.
The Lewis County
Soil and Water Conservation District would like to express our sincere
gratitude to the local businesses, organizations, and volunteers for their
time and contributions that made this event possible and to the Lewis
County Fair Board for the use of their facilities for the day!
Gabby Domagala of Gold Star
Feeds
teaching Grain Bin Safety
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