Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Family Day Event Set for Saturday
September has the designation of being disaster preparedness month and several local agencies are coming together this Saturday to put on a very special event called family day. Officials from the Pike County Health Department, The Big Sandy Red Cross, Pike County Emergency Management and others are all coordinating activities designed to help children and the families to be prepared, in the event of a disaster.
We spoke with representatives of three of the agencies participating, about what kind of events will be taking place.
"Several activities are planned such as face painting, a scavenger hunt a hand washing game that teaches kids... just several fun activities;" said Crystal Newsome with the Pike County Health department who went into detail about games being set up at the Pikeville YMCA “arts and crafts just stuff for the kids to play with.”
"Kids can see some of the suits and things that we have;” said Doug Tackett, director of Pike County's Emergency Management agency spoke on some of the cool things his agency would be bringing
“Breathing apparatus, air monitoring equipment will all be on display”
Robyn Tackett, Disaster Preparedness Director for the Big Sandy Chapter of the American Red Cross, then told us that preparing for a disaster is not limited to just one day, week or month but a year long thing.
"Even though September is the disaster preparedness month, these agencies are preparing for your disaster all year long, three hundred and sixty five days a year."
The event will be taking place this Saturday at the Pikeville YMCA located at Bob Amos Park from 10 am until 2 pm
We spoke with representatives of three of the agencies participating, about what kind of events will be taking place.
"Several activities are planned such as face painting, a scavenger hunt a hand washing game that teaches kids... just several fun activities;" said Crystal Newsome with the Pike County Health department who went into detail about games being set up at the Pikeville YMCA “arts and crafts just stuff for the kids to play with.”
"Kids can see some of the suits and things that we have;” said Doug Tackett, director of Pike County's Emergency Management agency spoke on some of the cool things his agency would be bringing
“Breathing apparatus, air monitoring equipment will all be on display”
Robyn Tackett, Disaster Preparedness Director for the Big Sandy Chapter of the American Red Cross, then told us that preparing for a disaster is not limited to just one day, week or month but a year long thing.
"Even though September is the disaster preparedness month, these agencies are preparing for your disaster all year long, three hundred and sixty five days a year."
The event will be taking place this Saturday at the Pikeville YMCA located at Bob Amos Park from 10 am until 2 pm
# posted by Justin Mullins @ 4:23 PM 
