LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
Halloween is a time for chil
dren to dress up and pretend. A
time for creativity and imagina
tion. Unfortunately, Halloween
and its trappings significantly
increase their risk of injury to
children. However, there are sev
eral things you can do to prevent
your child from being injured
without taking the fun and fantasy
out of the holiday.
“Halloween can be a great
opportunity for parents and chil
dren to spend time together creat
ing colorful and imaginative cos
tumes,” said Dr. Price, of Lancast
er County SAFE KIDS. “But, as
parents we need to keep safety in
mind when designing or selecting
these costumes. For instance, your
child may look adorable dressed
in your old clothes but if the outfit
is too long, your child may trip,
fall and be seriously injured.
Keeping an eye out for these haz
ards can help protect your child.”
Most Halloween injuries
involve environmental hazards
such as steps, uneven pavements
and other obstacles that may cause
falls in the dark. Flammable and
cumbersome costumes, wigs and
masks are also dangerous.
Motorists whose vision may be
obstructed or who are unable to
see children in dark costumes at
night pose a particular threat to
young trick-or-treaters.
That is why the Lancaster
County SAFE KIDS Coalition
offers the following tips to help
keep your children and your Hal
loween injury-free.
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Each year more than 150 chil
dren under age 5 are fatally
injured in falls. The fact that chil-
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Halloween Safety
dren wear costumes and walk in
the dark in unfamiliar neighbor
hoods increases the risk of a fall
on Halloween. There are a few
precautions you can take to reduce
that risk.
• Apply face paint or cosmetics
directly to the face. It is safer than
loose-fitting masks that can
obstruct a child’s vision. If a mask
is worn, be certain the mask fits
securely. Cut the eye holes large
enough for full vision.
• Give trick-or-treaters flash
lights.
• Make costumes short enough
to avoid tripping over them.
• Secure hats so they will nol
slip over children’s eyes.
• Dress children in shoes that
fit. Mom’s heels or dad’s work
boots are not safe for trick-or
treaters.
• Allow children to carry only
flexible knives, swords or other
props. Anything they carry could
hurt them if they fall.
• Teach children not to cut
across yards. Lawn ornaments
and clotheslines are invisible in
the dark. Tell your children to
stay on the sidewalks.
Pedestrian injuries are a lead
ing killer of children age 14 and
under. Costumed kids walking
through dimly-lit streets are
extremely difficult for drivers to
see. You can help make your kids
more visible by doing the follow
ing;
• Decorate costumes with reflec
tive tape.
• Decorate bags and sacks with
reflective tape.
• Use Halloween costumes
that are light or bright enough to
make them more visible at dusk.
It is specially important to
leading cause of preventable
injury deaths to children. By tak
• ing a few precautions, you may
reduce your child’s risk.
• Look for “flame resistant”
labels on costumes, masks,
beards and wigs.
• Use fire resistant material for
all homemade costumes.
• Avoid costumes made out of
flimsy material and outfits with
big, baggy sleeves or billowing
skirts. These are more likely than
tighter fitting costumes to come in
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remind children to practice traffic
safety.
• Remind children to stop at all
comers.
• Tell them to look left —
right— left before crossing.
• Tell them to never dart out
from between patked cars.
• Never let children under age
eight go trick-or-treating without
an adult or older sibling.
Motorists driving on Hal
loween, including parents *nd
baby sitters who are chauffeuring
kids around the neighborhood,
need to take precautions. They
should:
* Slow down in residential
neighborhoods.
• Obey all traffic signs and sig
nals.
• Watch for children walking
in the street or on medians and
curbs,
• Enter and exit driveways and
alleyways carefully.
• Clean your headlights and
make sure they work.
• Teach children to exit and
enter the car on the curb side,
away from traffic.
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The Lancaster County SAFE
KIDS Coalition recommends
adults do the following to help
make Halloween a safer holiday;
• Accompany young children
on their trick-or-treat rounds.
* Attach the name, address and
phone number (including area
code) of children under 12 to their
clothes, but not in an easily visible
place.
• Teach your child his or her
phone number. Make sure your
child has change for a phone call
in case they have a problem away
from home.
• Instruct children to travel
only in familiar areas and along a
pre-established route.
• Set a time for children to
return home.
• Restrict their trick-or-treat
visits to homes with porch or out
side lights illuminated.
• Remove breakable items or
obstacles such as tools, ladders
and children’s toys from your
steps, lawn and porch. Keep can
dle lit jack-o-lanterns away from
HERSHEY (Dauphin Co.)
Native Americans who lived in
the wooded area of Eastern North
America obtained their food from
hunting and gathering supple
mented with the produce from
small garden plots. Early Euro
pean explorers were amazed by
the quality, variety and flavor of
the foods they were served by
their Native American hosts.
On Monday November 21, at
1:30 p.m., Dr. Helen Ross Russell
will conduct a Hershey Museum
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landings or doorsteps where cos
tumes might brush against the
flame.
• Tell children to bring their
treats home before eating them.
Parents should check treats to
ensure that items have not been
tampered with and are safely
sealed. Be careful with fruit—cut
it open before allowing a child to
eat it.
Halloween is a time for fun.
You can protect you child by tak
ing these important precautions
and help take the fright out of
fright night.
For more information contact
the Lancaster SAFE KIDS Coali
tion at (717) 569-6481, which is
part of the National SAFE KIDS
Campaign, a long-term effort to
prevent unintentional injury—the
number one killer of children. The
Campaign composed of State and
Local Coalitions is 43 states and
the District of Columbia. More
than 90 national organizations are
also part of the Campaign. Mrs.
George Bush is honorary chair
man and former Surgeon General
C. Everett Koop, M.D., is chair
man of the campaign.
workshop which begins with a
slide presentation about the foods
and preparation methods used by
Eastern Woodland Indians. She
then leads participants through the
process of actually preparing,
cooking, and tasting select dishes.
Following the program, partici
pants are encouraged to visit the
Eastern Woodland Indian Gallery
where objects relating to food
preparation are on exhibit.
The program is free with muse
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