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Lewis County Soil & Water Conservation District
Holds 2025 Progressive Agriculture Safety Day®
Published: May 29, 2025 at
12:10 p.m.
By: Press Release from Lewis County Soil & Water
Conservation District
Lewis
County Soil & Water Conservation District Holds
2025
Progressive Agriculture Safety Day®
On
Wednesday, May 21, 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. 317 fifth grade students along with 23 teachers
and chaperones from 6 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
2025 station lesson topics were: Bicycle Safety (Adirondack Foothills
Cycling Club), 911 Emergency Phone Procedures (Lewis County 911 Dispatch),
Gun Safety (NYS DEC), Vaping/Tobacco Use Prevention (Lewis County Emergency
Management), Fire Safety (Lowville
Fire Dept.), Tractor Safety (Sydenstricker Nobbe Partners of Lowville NY), Tick
and Lyme Disease Prevention (Lewis County Public Health), Stop the Bleed
(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 (Lewis County
Snowmobile Assn, Inc.), Look Alike Poisons (Lewis County Public Health), Sun
Exposure (NYS Children’s Environmental Health Center), and Internet Safety
(Black River Valley Business and Community Alliance). 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, reflective bracelets, safety glasses, safety
brochures, magnets, stickers, ear plugs, 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!
 
Left Photo: Carson
Mast shows students proper placement of a tourniquet
Right Photo:
Students learn Bicycle Safety from members of the Adirondack Foothills
Cycling Club
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