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The Crookston Community Education Program hosted its annual Safety Town program at Washington Elementary School, which ran this week. Megan Parenteau and Stacy Olson are co-safety town coordinators, as well as teachers at Washington Elementary School. The Safety Town program is intended for children who have recently completed Kindergarten, and the program provides comprehensive safety […]
Highland Elementary School is partnering with Safe Kids Grand Forks and Crookston Public Works Department to use a $16,000 Safe Routes to School Grant awarded by the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) to help make the streets around the school safer. Safe Kids Grand Forks helped Highland write the proposal for the grant after the
The Highland Elementary School is participating in the Winter Walk to School Day this Tuesday, January 31, which will be celebrated nationwide on February 1. Students will be encouraged to walk to school bundled in their winter gear, where they will be greeted at the front of their school by Safe Kids Grand Forks and
Summer is upon us, and the temperatures are rising with the shining sun that can make a beautiful summer day but can also include increasing wind speeds and thunderstorms that can ruin an ideal day at the beach. With schools out now for most children, parents need to be more aware than ever of their
What can start out as a bright and sunny day for some families ends in tragedy for over 40 children in the United States each year because of heatstroke deaths that have occurred in cars. That is one death nearly every nine days. Heatstroke deaths in cars, while more common in the warm summer months,
Nearly 180 schools around Minnesota will benefit from $8,234,000 in planning, programming, and infrastructure grants that support the Safe Routes to School program, the Minnesota Department of Transportation announced. Safe Routes to School is an international program to improve safety and reduce traffic congestion around schools. It does this by making it safer and easier
